Author: Noah Swank
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Colleges Teach Gender and Race. They Ignore Class.
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Thoughts on Vanderbilt’s “The University and Its Purpose”
Categories: University GovernanceBy Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber StoreyAugust 19, 2026 On July 29, Vanderbilt University published an important document: “The University and Its Purpose: a Declaration of First Principles,” which the Vanderbilt Board of Trust adopted a month earlier. The adoption and publication of these principles is significant. Vanderbilt’s Chancellor, Daniel Diermeier, and its Board Chair,…
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Who Should Decide How to Use Taxpayer Dollars to Fund Scientific Research?
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The New Republic of Science
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Robert P. George on Institutional Neutrality, Campus Discourse and Fruitful Disagreement
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Pensées on the Pascal Institute
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How a Few Foundations Shape American Higher Education
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Does Legacy Higher Ed Have a Future?
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Introducing SOURCE
Categories: University Governancea New Tool to Track Funding from Private Foundations to American Higher Ed By Tao TanJune 24, 2026 The debate about private money in higher education is loud, emotion-laden, and not typically backed by sufficient evidence. Up to this point, access to the evidence has been challenging, since it sits in millions of separate tax…
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Economics and the Civic Imagination
Categories: Civic ThoughtBy Joshua BanerjeeJune 24, 2026 The civic thought movement taking root across public universities presents a significant opportunity to renew the meaning of citizenship and prepare students for the responsibilities and challenges of republican self-government. Yet while disciplines such as political theory, philosophy, and history have already assumed a visible place within civic education, the…