Sports Betting Now Legal in N.C. — which Raises Some Concerns

By: George Leef · George Leef — June 17^th 2024 at 07:17

Dan Way looks at the questions this raises for college sports.

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A Reasonable Alternative to Our Ruinous Student Financial-Aid System

By: George Leef · George Leef — June 14^th 2024 at 10:40

We need to get the feds out of this unconstitutional role, which can probably only be done incrementally.

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Should the U.S. Create ‘Sports Academies’?

By: George Leef · George Leef — June 14^th 2024 at 07:13

For a long time, higher education and sports have been a troublesome mixture, with numerous scandals.

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A Sensible Higher-Education-Reform Idea in Pennsylvania

By: George Leef · George Leef — June 13^th 2024 at 08:53

The obvious waste and inefficiency of our higher-education system is finally attracting the attention of state legislators.

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How Low Will Ohio Northern University Go?

By: George Leef · George Leef — June 12^th 2024 at 10:10

I have written before about the disgusting treatment that Ohio Northern University’s Law School has dished out to Professor Scott Gerber.

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A Really Nasty Case of the Education’s Departments Abuse of Power

By: George Leef · George Leef — June 12^th 2024 at 09:15

In today’s Martin Center article, I write about the Grand Canyon University case.

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American Higher Education Must Shrink to Improve

By: George Leef · George Leef — June 10^th 2024 at 14:49

Schools want students because they mean revenue, but when those students can’t do the work, it causes serious problems.

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UNC Handled its Pro-Hamas Protest Properly

By: George Leef · George Leef — June 10^th 2024 at 09:52

As at many other colleges and universities recently, the campus at the University of North Carolina was the scene of an ‘encampment.’

Students are seen at a protest encampment in support of Palestinians at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., April 26, 2024.

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Duping College Students into Activism

By: George Leef · George Leef — June 7^th 2024 at 07:15

College faculty and staffers should be made to think twice before goading students into activist malfeasance.

Pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of California Los Angeles in Los Angeles, May 1, 2024.

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More Proof of the Value of Standardized Test Scores

By: George Leef · George Leef — June 6^th 2024 at 07:48

Standardized tests are a good gauge of which students will do well in college.

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Why Do Young Americans Have Such an Aversion to Capitalism?

By: George Leef · George Leef — June 5^th 2024 at 10:57

Polls show that a frighteningly large percentage of young Americans think they’d rather live under socialism than capitalism.

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Higher-Education Reform in Oklahoma

By: George Leef · George Leef — June 5^th 2024 at 08:51

Even though the state’s political leadership is conservative, that isn’t translating into action to restore Oklahoma’s university system to respectability.

Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City.

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What Insiders Think Are the Major Higher-Ed Issues Today

By: George Leef · George Leef — June 3^rd 2024 at 09:36

What the insiders point to as reform issues and what the Martin Center points to are quite different.

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Princeton Blames the Victim

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 31^st 2024 at 18:59

The university gives the benefit of the doubt to a Hamas zealot who harassed a student.

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Remembering a Crucial Supreme Court Decision

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 31^st 2024 at 16:08

In 1925, the Supreme Court said a state couldn’t require parents to send their children to government schools. How would a similar case turn out today?

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A Good Explanation for the Turmoil on Our Campuses

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 31^st 2024 at 10:15

It will be hard to return to an educational system that again focuses on truth.

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Why Are Fewer Young Americans Completing College?

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 30^th 2024 at 13:03

They’re worried about costs and the best use of their time.

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Handwringing from a ‘Progressive’ History Ph.D. Who Can’t Find Work

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 29^th 2024 at 11:13

The U.S. wastes lots of resources in the production of aspiring professors.

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More Federal Meddling in Higher Education — Textbooks

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 29^th 2024 at 07:16

The feds say this will improve ‘transparency’ and lower costs.

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The War on Prices Heating Up

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 28^th 2024 at 10:36

We are seeing a surge in new governmental measures to control market prices, as politicians get edgy due to inflation.

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Free the Housing Market!

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 27^th 2024 at 10:34

Economics professor Art Carden reviews Build Baby, Build, the latest book by GMU professor Bryan Caplan.

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Finally, Transgender Sports Rules That Make Sense

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 27^th 2024 at 05:59

Harrington Shaw believes that ensuring fair competition is more important than pursuing the leftist obsession with ‘inclusion.’ I think he’s right.

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And the Winner Is . . .

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 25^th 2024 at 16:20

The National Association of Scholars’ Trofim Lysenko Award is back!

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The Adversity of Diversity

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 24^th 2024 at 08:50

The Adversity of Diversity by Carol Swain is filled with sharp observations and common sense.

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The Trojan Horse of ‘Ethnic Studies’

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 23^rd 2024 at 20:02

What a ridiculous pretext — that students would not be able to deal with people from differing cultures without taking an ‘ethnic studies’ course.

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What DEI Does to a Medical School

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 23^rd 2024 at 17:04

Some UCLA Med grads will become lousy doctors, but at least the profession overall will have more ‘equity,’ and that’s what really matters . . . isn’t it?

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Another Leftist Myth Exploded

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 23^rd 2024 at 07:35

Even if a few flaming hot leftist profs leave their jobs teaching politicized subjects, so what? They’re easily replaced.

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When ‘Job Creation’ Makes the Nation Poorer

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 22^nd 2024 at 10:27

Merely creating work for someone to do does not necessarily mean any gain in the nation’s well-being.

People wait in line looking for jobs during a Job Fair at the Miami Dade College in Miami, Fla., March 4, 2009.

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The ‘Divest from Israel’ Demand Doesn’t Make Sense

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 22^nd 2024 at 09:35

Someone ought to enlighten the students about how capital markets work.

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ASU Sides with the Hamasniks

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 21^st 2024 at 14:44

Over a verbal altercation off campus, Arizona State University professor Jonathan Yudelman will likely lose his job.

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On the Resurgence of Protectionism

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 21^st 2024 at 12:05

I’d like to add that protectionist policies are not really made to improve the economy, any more than gun-control measures are offered to prevent violence.

President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump

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Examining the New Campus Fad: ‘Belonging’

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 20^th 2024 at 06:30

The ‘belonging’ movement not only infantilizes young adults, but undermines the purpose of college education to foster inquiry.

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College Football Back in the News — with Lawsuits

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 17^th 2024 at 12:13

Clemson and Florida State are suing the Atlantic Coast Conference to escape from their commitment to the conference until 2036.

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What’s Wrong With the Latest Student-Loan Giveaway?

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 16^th 2024 at 08:59

We need to get the government out of lending (for higher education and everything else), but Biden would have us dig the hole even deeper.

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Why Archiving of Research Is Important

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 15^th 2024 at 08:57

Academics and wanna-be academics produce vast quantities of dubious research every year, so does it matter what is done with it?