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[Winston Smith]

The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy

All too often, universities allow teaching to become shallow and trendy, failing to challenge students intellectually and disparaging traditional principles of justice, ethics, and liberal education. Students know little about the history of their country or the institutions that led to this nation’s prosperity and liberty. Students can get by without taking rigorous courses, and non-academic activities overshadow scholarship. As a result, many college graduates have poor skills in computation, communication, and logical analysis. Faculty are allowed excessive latitude in what they teach and often get away with little teaching at all, because research is emphasized. Taxpayers as well as students and their families pay hefty prices to support a system that often appears to provide little educational value.

To address these and other problems, the Pope Center conducts studies in areas such as governance, curriculum, financing, access, accountability, faculty research, and administrative policies. We explore ways to increase the accountability of trustees, administrators, faculty, and students. And we engage in the broader dialogue about how to improve higher education around the nation.

In these endeavors, we are motivated by the principles that have traditionally guided public policy in the United States: limits on government; freedom to pursue goals through voluntary means, both for-profit and nonprofit; accountability through private property rights; and the belief that competition is an excellent regulating force.

Coming soon...Breitbart's new higher ed site:

Breitbart’s main site, BigGovernment.com, has had a section dedicated to educational issues, but the blogger announced Aug. 23 in an interview with EAGtv that BigEducation.com would become its own website, “a platform for teachers who are in failing schools who want to change things, or parents or even the students themselves.”

...Breitbart pledged that BigEducation.com would push for the elimination of the U.S. Education Department (ED) and the disassembling of teachers unions that he considers corrupt.