September 26, 2012
The way humanities departments at research universities measure productivity – by counting publications – incentivizes unproductiveness in teaching.
February 23, 2012
William Young analyzes the development of increased productivity in modern capitalism.
August 26, 2011
In today’s Pope Center piece, the provost at UNC-Asheville takes issue with the findings in our report on faculty workloads. She argues that they do more than we said they did. Author Jay Scha......
July 25, 2011
The U.S. devotes a lot of resources to higher education but gets a pretty low return, argues Richard Vedder.
June 27, 2011
First Things editor R.R. Reno takes a look at the ongoing discussion about the connection between ever-increasing costs at academic institutions and the large number of faculty members who do little......
April 11, 2011
In today’s Pope Center piece, Jay Schalin looks at the recent statement by the UNC system that appears to overstate the amount of teaching that professors actually do.
January 7, 2011
In today's Pope Center piece, Duke Cheston writes about his findings regarding the UNC political science department. Have tenured faculty engaged in some successful "rent seeking" to reduce the......
August 4, 2010
The death of tenure would mean the supply of high quality faculty members would shrink, argues Bruce Heiden.
