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Melana Zyla Vickers, "An Empty Room of One's Own: A Critical Look at the Women's Studies Programs of North Carolina's Publicly Funded Universities," Pope Center for Higher Education Policy Inquiry, March 30, 2005 (popecenter.org)
Evidence of the damage done to the academy by political correctness continues to mount. In the latest case--a study for the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy--veteran journalist Melana Zyla Vickers notes the flagging interest in "women's studies" programs at five universities in North Carolina, and gathers evidence that this decline might be due to rampant partisanship and poor scholarship.
Of the five universities studied (East Carolina University, North Carolina State University, UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Charlotte, and UNC-Greensboro), all showed a significant decline in--or a complete lack of interest in their women's studies programs. In fact, none of the five schools have graduated more than 12 students with a degree in women's studies in a given year--and ...
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