Hitting the Big Time

Recently we told you about Jon Sanders’ Wall Street Journal piece, and now the Pope Center has scored several more important media hits via commentaries by George Leef and Shannon Blosser. The Detroit News featured Leef’s analysis of college affordability in Michigan on the front page of its Sept. 19 Commentary section. The article focused on the “adverse effects” when states increase subsidies for higher education. The well-known web site, townhall.com featured a link to his essay on the weak general education requirement of the UNC system, as detailed in the recently released study by the National Association of Scholars. The site also linked to Shannon Blosser’s commentary on the dominance of college athletics, which focused on the University of Miami’s recent announcement that, despite an extensive criminal record, linebacker Willie Williams will be accepted. Back in North Carolina, Leef’s column questioning the validity and import of the annual college rankings by U.S. News & World Report ran in Monroe’s Enquirer-Journal, the Mooresville Tribune, and the News Leader of Princeton. The Charlotte Observer used the piece as the basis of an early-September editorial.