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Drake Group President: Congress Must Protect Student-Athletes' Rights
Jan 11, 2021 · Shannon Watkins · No Comments on Drake Group President: Congress Must Protect Student-Athletes' Rights
The fight to protect student-athletes' rights has been a long uphill battle. The injustices that college athletes suffer at the hands of their academic institutions are many, including a shameless disregard for athletes' physical, financial, and educational well-being. To make matters worse, the NCAA, founded to protect student-athletes from exploitation, has failed in its mission … Continue reading "Drake Group President: Congress Must Protect Student-Athletes' Rights"
Is College Football an Expensive Luxury for Many Universities?
Sep 25, 2020 · Laurence Peterson · No Comments on Is College Football an Expensive Luxury for Many Universities?
The importance of college football to university education is vastly overrated. Rather than an integral part of the college experience, football means more student debt, another burden for taxpayers, and a compromised education for athletes. The COVID-19 pandemic is prompting universities to develop costly new teaching methodologies, require expensive campus protection strategies, and has caused … Continue reading "Is College Football an Expensive Luxury for Many Universities?"
How College Sports Can Survive
Jun 17, 2020 · B. David Ridpath · No Comments on How College Sports Can Survive
Without revenue from the NCAA Final Four tournament and other sources of income, it is clear that the intercollegiate athletics industry faces difficult choices from the consequences of the coronavirus. College sports will confront a continuing crisis until adequate testing is in place, along with social distancing at athletic events, or a vaccine is created. … Continue reading "How College Sports Can Survive"
A Conversation with the Chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill
Mar 30, 2020 · Shannon Watkins · No Comments on A Conversation with the Chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill
On December 13th, 2019, Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz became the 12th chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to his appointment, he had been serving as interim chancellor after Carol Folt abruptly resigned in January 2019. Guskiewicz took leadership during a time of upheaval on UNC-Chapel Hill's campus. Before resigning, Folt ordered … Continue reading "A Conversation with the Chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill"
How College Sports Turned into a Corrupt Mega-Business
Mar 11, 2020 · George Leef · No Comments on How College Sports Turned into a Corrupt Mega-Business
College sports are a gigantic entertainment business that have nothing to do with the missions of the schools. Frequently, the highest-paid employee of a school is the football or basketball coach, and the athletics budget is hugely subsidized by fees paid by financially strapped students. Players who read and write at a middle-school level (if … Continue reading "How College Sports Turned into a Corrupt Mega-Business"
More in Academics
A Modest Proposal for Fixing the College Modern Language Requirement Jan 15, 2021
In her fine opinion piece for the Martin Center, Megan Zogby bemoans the "Quixotic" requirement that North Carolina college and university students take between two and four courses in a language such as Spanish, French, or German. This requirement, Zogby asserts, "appears to have no meaningful effect on the language proficiency of college graduates." What is more, … Continue reading "A Modest Proposal for Fixing the College Modern Language Requirement"
Did You Know? Disrupt Texts Is the Latest Attack on the Western Canon Jan 14, 2021
Penguin Classics is partnering with Disrupt Texts to replace Shakespeare and Homer with Ibram X. Kendi. What is Disrupt Texts? For the uninitiated, it is a new radical movement in classrooms which seeks to disrupt the "hegemony of English" and the Western canon by replacing them. According to its own website, Disrupt Texts is a "crowdsourced, grassroots effort by … Continue reading "Did You Know? Disrupt Texts Is the Latest Attack on the Western Canon"
The Spurning of Old Books: The Devaluation of the Past Threatens Higher Ed Jan 13, 2021
Alan Jacobs' new book, Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind, is a coaxing argument to read "old books that come from strange times." Readers of his previous works The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction and How to Think will not be surprised that Jacobs, distinguished … Continue reading "The Spurning of Old Books: The Devaluation of the Past Threatens Higher Ed"
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Drake Group President: Congress Must Protect Student-Athletes' Rights Jan 11, 2021
Reforming Higher Ed in 2021 Jan 4, 2021
The year 2020 brought changes that colleges would have never made by choice. Enrollment declines, remote classes, and dramatic employee cuts (for faculty and some staff alike) were unthinkable a year ago. But, for the sake of the future, more work remains. Below are some priorities the Martin Center staff would like to see catch … Continue reading "Reforming Higher Ed in 2021"
Is College Football an Expensive Luxury for Many Universities? Sep 25, 2020
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Leaving the Blight of Higher Education: Part II–Farewell, Faculty Jan 8, 2021
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