George Leef of the Martin Center offers helpful advice to prospective college students. Many students come to regret their choice of college. They expect that getting a degree will mean…
Joseph Warta uses a Martin Center column to revisit key themes from a milestone book in the history of higher education reform. The year 2000 saw the publication of Beer…
George Leef’s latest Forbes column examines the phenomenon of the “party school,” building on the Princeton Review‘s recent ranking of the University of Iowa as the nation’s top party school.…
In this piece at popecenter.org, George Leef writes about the disturbing reality that many college students are unable to write a paper. Teaching students to write is an onerous task…
George Leef’s latest Forbes column ponders the potential impact of online education options on the future of traditional colleges and universities. From the dawn of time until the early 20th…
That’s the point of this USA Today article reporting on the findings of a recent book, Academically Adrift. Some students enter college eager to study, but many others enter college…
In today’s Pope Center piece, Professor Murray Sperber, author of one of the best critiques of the wasteland that contemporary American higher education has become (Beer and Circus), writes about…
Here is a revealing story about the thin-skinned administration at Johns Hopkins University. The school has given student fee money to the Diverse Sexuality and Gender Alliance (DSAGA), which used…
Scott Mooneyham writes about the problem of grade inflation at UNC here. Defenders of higher ed often say that grades are higher these days because the students are so much…
In reading through the report, I came across this statement: “The average literacy of U.S. college students was generally the same regardless of how long students had been in college,…
No, it doesn’t, said Richard Vedder, professor of economics at Ohio University, in his remarks at last month’s Pope Center conference. This month, his argument is featured in MetroMagazine’s November…
Among the audience members at last Saturday’s higher education conference, hosted by the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, was Mal Kline of Accuracy in Academia. This week, Kline published…