June 20, 2011
A recent survey suggests that professorial ideological bias may sometimes be a function of student resistence to changing their ideas. Could be, but there's still much MUCH more to the issue.
June 17, 2011
In today's Pope Center piece, Tulane University sociology professor Carl Bankston argues that colleges should not mandate "civic engagement" of their students. Doing so is inconsistent with a li......
June 17, 2011
Collegiate journalists talk about the tragedy of the Gaza Strip, the wrong way to address campus sexual assault, misguided personnel policies and the psychology of t-shirts.
June 17, 2011
NAS President Peter Wood discusses classroom advocacy and academic freedom.
June 16, 2011
A recent proposal to upgrade business curricula correctly pinpoints current deficiencies, but doesn't offer a credible alternative.
June 15, 2011
In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, Steven Roy Goodman takes a critical look at FERPA (the Family and Educational Rights Privacy Act) and argues that it often impedes access to key informat......
June 15, 2011
College admissions offices wrestle with the bewildering contortions of race-based admissions.
June 14, 2011
In a recent article, the Wall Street Journal quotes Mark Zuckerberg, the kid from Harvard who heads the CEO of a company-not-yet-public. (Goldman-Sachs VIP insiders only, please). What disturbed me......
June 14, 2011
The president of Catholic University announced yesterday in this Wall Street Journal piece that, starting next Fall, his school would begin a phased return to single-sex dorms for undergraduates.
June 14, 2011
Political scientist Bob Weissberg reflects on campus affirmative action policies.
March 3, 2026
The U.S. strike on Iran and the foreign funding shaping how universities respond to it....
March 11, 2026
Trump’s EOs and the Supreme Court make DEI illegal—but colleges keep rebranding it to dodge the law....
January 27, 2026
As Western civilization courses vanish from higher education, so too are history professors, to the detriment of our civilization....
May 15, 2015
A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....
February 21, 2014
Is art worth dying for? The Monuments Men considers the value of good art and its purpose in preserving a cultural heritage....
October 17, 2018
William Young finds much to praise in the hit musical....
