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</div><div>Following John William Pope’s death in 2006, his youngest son, Art, became Chairman and CEO of Variety Wholesalers and Chairman and President of the Pope Foundation</div><div>=</div><div>rebranded (after brulle outing?</div><div>
</div><div>https://www.jamesgmartin.center/about/</div><div>
</div><div>he James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal is a nonprofit institute dedicated to improving higher education in North Carolina and the nation. Located in Raleigh, North Carolina, it has been an independent 501(c)(3) organization since 2003. It was known as the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy until January 2017.<hr style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-style: solid; border-color: rgba(77, 117, 153, 0.2); border-image: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; clear: both; margin: 30px 0px 29px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What We Are Trying to Achieve</h2>Our goals are to improve colleges and universities, especially in North Carolina.We want to:<ul style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li>Increase the diversity of ideas taught, debated, and discussed on campus;</li><li>Encourage respect for the institutions that underlie economic prosperity and freedom of action and conscience;</li><li>Increase the quality of teaching and students’ commitment to learning so that they graduate with strong literacy and fundamental knowledge;</li><li>Encourage cost-effective administration and governance.</li></ul>To do this we will:<ul style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li>Inform parents, students, trustees, alumni, and administrators about actual learning on campus and how it can be improved;</li><li>Inform taxpayers about the use and impact of their funds;</li><li>Find ways to acquaint students with ideas that are dismissed or marginalized on campuses today;</li><li>Be a watchdog for legislative and administrative governance.</li></ul><hr style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-style: solid; border-color: rgba(77, 117, 153, 0.2); border-image: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; clear: both; margin: 30px 0px 29px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What We Do</h2>The university system in the United States has accomplished a great deal of good, but we believe that higher education in the United States, including North Carolina, has strayed from its chief goals of scholarly inquiry and responsible teaching.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 Martin 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.</div><div></div><div>brulle 2013:</div><div>
</div><div>donor trust 14%</div><div>scaife 7%, bradley 5 plus 1% ed, koch 5, howard charatible fdn 4, john w pope 4%, searle 4, templeton 4%, dunn's fdn for the adv of rt thinking 2, smith richardson 2, vanguard 2, ...annenbeg kohler 2, Lilly 2%</div><div></div><div>art's dad rip: As 1981 dawned, Variety Wholesalers boasted 228 stores and a position as the largest privately owned retail variety store chain in the southeast. By 1986, profits from his business had allowed John to create a foundation. Its mission: to protect and advance the liberties of North Carolinians so that future generations could have the same opportunities enjoyed by the Pope family — the freedom to create wealth for the benefit of all.</div>The Foundation has channeled its resources into four focus areas: <a href="http://jwpf.org/grants/focus-areas/public-policy/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Public policy</a>,<a href="http://jwpf.org/grants/focus-areas/education/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">education</a>, <a href="http://jwpf.org/grants/focus-areas/humanitarian/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">humanitarian work</a>, and <a href="http://jwpf.org/grants/focus-areas/arts/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">the arts</a>. For the past 25 years, the Foundation has made grants designed to influence society to foster more success stories like that of the Pope family.Following John William Pope’s death in 2006, his youngest son, Art, became Chairman and CEO of Variety Wholesalers and Chairman and President of the Pope Foundation. He and the Board of Directors continue to preserve John William Pope’s philanthropic vision and legacy.To the day he passed away, John William Pope believed that hard work was the key to success. “If you love what you are doing,” he said, “are willing to take risks to accomplish your goals, have the support of your family and good people working with you, then you can be a successful entrepreneur whether you are in your twenties or your seventies or eighties.”<div>=</div><div><a href="http://jwpf.org/stories/the-john-locke-foundation/">http://jwpf.org/stories/the-john-locke-foundation/</a>  john locke</div><div>
</div><div><div>GRANTEE PROFILES</div><div>The Pope Foundation has a rich history of 25 years of grant-making. We’re honored to have the resources to support so many worthy nonprofits and causes that enrich individuals and their communities. Check back soon for new grantee profiles.</div><div>
</div><div>Displaying: Public Policy </div><div> image description</div><div>THE JESSE HELMS CENTER</div><div>No compendium of influential conservatives from the 20th century is complete without “Senator No” — Jesse Helms. First elected in 1972 to represent North Carolina in the U.S. Senate, Helms was a mainstay of the conservative movement over...</div><div>
</div><div>LEARN MORE & GET INVOLVED  image description</div><div>THE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION</div><div>Rather than redistribute the economic pie that already exists, the John Locke Foundation wants to see more pies produced in the...</div><div>
</div><div>LEARN MORE & GET INVOLVED image description</div><div>THE JOHN W. POPE CIVITAS INSTITUTE</div><div>State and local governments also are the places where citizens can have the most direct say and impact, in the quickest way. Those reasons, and more, are why the John William Pope Civitas Institute exists.</div><div>
</div><div>LEARN MORE & GET INVOLVED  image description</div><div>THE NORTH CAROLINA FREE ENTERPRISE FOUNDATION</div><div>Providing legislative and political research to the North Carolina business community, all with the purpose of advancing free enterprise and creating a positive business climate.</div><div>
</div><div>LEARN MORE & GET INVOLVED image description</div><div>THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE</div><div>In listing societal institutions that are a force against big government, strong marriages, strong families, and strong churches immediately come to mind. But is philanthropy also an indispensible support of freedom?</div><div>
</div><div>LEARN MORE & GET INVOLVED  image description</div><div>THE POPE CENTER FOR HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY</div><div>Broadening intellectual diversity on campus, increasing the value of a college degree, and serving as a watchdog of resources in the university system: These attributes, and many more, characterize the Pope Center for Higher...</div></div><div>
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</div><div><div id="intro" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px;">Almost every single time I start checking out some flashy new Conservative organization, it ends up being a "Seven Degrees of Sarah Scaife" game. Which is one of the huge foundations that fund various right-wing "think-tanks" that peddle corporate misinformation, like the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation. In this case, it only takes about four degrees to connect the dots between these mega-funders and the new "student organization" that has plunged UNC Chapel Hill into controversy lately, the Youth for Western Civilization.</div><div id="body" class="article-body" style="margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; overflow: hidden;">The middle dot in this connection is the Leadership Institute out of Arlington Virginia:<a href="http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/AboutUS/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/...</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.2em 0px; padding: 20px; line-height: 1.4; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225);">The Leadership Institute's mission is to identify, recruit, train, and place conservatives in politics, government, and the media.</blockquote>The head guru of this indoctrination facility (they actually have a dorm) is Morton Blackwell, who's been training future Conservative leaders like Karl Rove for decades. He was also a co-founder of Moral Majority, a close associate of the DeVos family, and is the Chairman of the Virginia Republican National Committee.If there are any UNC administrators reading this, please pay close attention to this Salon article from 2005:<a href="http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/05/25/blackwell/print.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">http://dir.salon.com/...</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.2em 0px; padding: 20px; line-height: 1.4; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225);">The structure of Blackwell's Campus Leadership Program is simple. The Leadership Institute trains promising conservative college graduates over the summer and dispatches them to campuses in the fall with a mandate to start conservative student organizations. Need $500 and some ideas to start a combative right-wing campus publication? The institute would love to help you. Is the campus administration discriminating against your Second Amendment club? The institute will help you take your cause to the Internet. No one on campus at your Christian college has ever heard of the institute? Staffers will be glad to drive down, take you to a steakhouse, and talk it up. Last year, the CLP doubled in size, to 418 clubs and counting. By the end of 2006, Blackwell is confident he will have created 1,000 conservative campus organizations.Unlike chapter-based political organizations, CLP clubs are unaffiliated with either the Leadership Institute or each other. According to Blackwell, this trait offers a serious advantage: "No purges." The clubs' independence also comes with the benefit of plausible deniability. "You can get away with stuff that you would take a lot of flak for doing in the College Republicans," says CLP director Dan Flynn. "Because we're independent, we can do activities that push the envelope," agrees University of Miami senior Sarah Canale, whose CLP-organized Advocates for Conservative Thought threw an affirmative action bake sale last year in which the price of a cupcake varied according to the race of its buyer. That it was controversial, she believes, was a victory in itself.The Leadership Institute teaches the same principle. Controlled controversy -- making your point in a manner so bombastic that your opponents blow their cool -- is a Blackwell specialty.</blockquote>Sound familiar? Do you understand now, Chancellor Thorp? You're not dealing with a free speech issue, you're dealing with kids who have been recruited and trained by an organization to bring about exactly what happened. Nix previous self-righteous tirade. It appears the six who were arrested at the Virgil Goode speech were not students or faculty, they were adults living in the area who went there to protest/disrupt. There's already too much off-campus influence at play here, and the students need to be left alone so they can work this out in their own way.If you're still not convinced, let's look at the Leadership Institute's financial statement, which shows that, for last year alone, they spent $4,605,859 on their Campus Leadership Program:<a href="http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/AboutUS/Files/2008form990.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/...</a><a href="http://www.thecampusright.com/NFP/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">http://www.thecampusright.com/...</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.2em 0px; padding: 20px; line-height: 1.4; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225);">The National Field Program identifies and recruits conservative students on college campuses and helps them organize independent conservative groups and publications.These independent groups and publications fight back against the radical leftists who dominate the faculty, administration, and campus life at the majority of American colleges.</blockquote>Here's a few snippets from their blog, the Campus Right:<a href="http://www.thecampusright.com/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">http://www.thecampusright.com/</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.2em 0px; padding: 20px; line-height: 1.4; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225);">The Leadership Institute's Deputy Field Director, Kevin DeAnna, is the founder of Youth for Western Civilization.</blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 1.2em 0px; padding: 20px; line-height: 1.4; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225);">The Youth for Western Civilization (YWC) chapter at UNC Chapel Hill, a Campus Leadership Program group, brought Tom Tancredo to speak on campus on April 14, 2009.</blockquote>And if you're still not convinced the Leadership Institute is directly responsible for your recent troubles, how about some proof that there was a financial incentive involved?<blockquote style="margin: 1.2em 0px; padding: 20px; line-height: 1.4; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225);">LI offers conservative groups a chance to showcase their campus activism skills as they compete with other groups for a Conservative Campus Activism Scholarship Award.</blockquote>First Place is $2,000, Second Place is $1,000, and Third Place is $500. And if you look at a few of the questions asked on the application for said award, you'll get an idea of what they expect from the winners:<a href="http://www.thecampusright.com/CAA/2009_Group_Activism_Award_Application.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">http://www.thecampusright.com/...</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.2em 0px; padding: 20px; line-height: 1.4; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225);"><ol style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.4;"><li value="6" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">Was their any opposition from other students, campus police or faculty? How did you respond?</li></ol><ol style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.4;"><li value="7" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">What did your group do to earn media coverage?</li></ol></blockquote>That pretty much sums it up. What happened at UNC was not a fluke or an aberration of student behavior, it was an event orchestrated from without by powerful people with an agenda. And I have a feeling this story is far from over.Part II: While doing my research before posting this diary at BlueNC a few days ago, I came across some pretty strong hints that our resident right-wing stink-tank and astroturf conglomerate Civitas/John Locke Foundation (see Art Pope Puppetmaster) was somehow involved in this. I've learned that, when dealing with these folks in particular, there's no such thing as a coincidence:<a href="http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A23150" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">http://www.indyweek.com/...</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.2em 0px; padding: 20px; line-height: 1.4; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225);">The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy says critics of a proposed "Studies in Western Cultures" minor at the University of North Carolina--to be funded by the center's benefactor, the John William Pope Foundation--are "fearful radicals." But faculty who wrote the proposal are among those asking university administrators to take a stronger stand against the Pope Center's attacks on UNC curriculum. Reid Barbour, chair of the committee that developed the "Studies in Western Cultures" proposal, says he is proud of his team's work, but is uncomfortable with the donors' ties to the Pope Center.The Pope Center has also been outspoken about what it says is a lack of attention to the teaching of Western Civilization at UNC as compared to multiculturalism. Since word of the proposed Pope-funded curriculum in Western Cultures broke last month, faculty and students have voiced concerns that allowing a political critic of the university to pay for changes in the curriculum will harm the school's academic integrity."The Pope Center is attacking members of our faculty with hostility, and I want it to stop," he says. "I would like to see the administration go to the Popes and ask for the attacks to stop or for the Popes to distance themselves" from those attacks.</blockquote>Now, this curriculum controversy has been ongoing for 4-5 years, and UNC Chapel Hill isn't the only university that Pope is trying to subvert. But the theme of elevating Western Studies while stifling multicultarism seems to be one of the main missions of the newly-formed Youth for Western Civilization:<a href="http://www.westernyouth.org/About/index.htm" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">http://www.westernyouth.org/...</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.2em 0px; padding: 20px; line-height: 1.4; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225);">Youth for Western Civilization will educate, organize and train activists on campuses across the nation to create a culture that will promote the survival of Western Civilization and pride in Western heritage. This movement is focused on the support of Western history, identity, high culture, and pride and opposition to radical multiculturalism, political correctness, racial preferences, mass immigration, and socialism.</blockquote>And thanks to my intrepid fellow BlueNC blogger Greg Flynn, we now know that the Pope Foundation has donated some $110,000 to the Leadership Institute over the last three years. Which could mean (I'm still not 100%) that the appearance of this borderline White Supremacist student group is part of this older battle between the Pope Foundation and the "radical leftist" faculty at UNC. If so, it was a pretty smart move by Art Pope. The school has been embarrassed and ridiculed, several students have been arrested for speaking their minds, and now speakers who are paid to spew their racist viewpoints on immigration, affirmative action and multiculturalism are on the verge of being granted unlimited access to the UNC campus.Originally posted at BlueNC  <a href="http://bluenc.com/deeper-look-unc-fiasco#comment-116478" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">http://bluenc.com/...</a>==BSdavid frenchThe John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy is a

nonprofit institute dedicated to improving higher education in North

Carolina and the nation. Located in Raleigh, North Carolina, it has been

an independent 501(c)(3) organization since 2003. It is named for the

late John William Pope, who served on the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of

Trustees.

The Pope Center is located at 353 E. Six Forks Road, Suite 200,

Raleigh 27609. It is different from the John William Pope Foundation,

which is located at 4601 Six Forks Road, Suite 300, Raleigh NC 27609.

<hr class="rule" noshade="noshade" size="1" style="" /><h2 style="">Pope Center Goals</h2>

Our goals are to improve colleges and universities, especially in North Carolina.

We want to:

<ul style=""><li>Increase the diversity of ideas taught, debated, and discussed on campus;</li><li>Encourage respect for the institutions that underlie economic prosperity and freedom of action and conscience;</li><li>Increase the quality of teaching and students' commitment to

learning so that they graduate with strong literacy and fundamental

knowledge;</li><li>Encourage cost-effective administration and governance.</li></ul>

To do this we will:

<ul style=""><li>Inform parents, students, trustees, alumni, and administrators about actual learning on campus and how it can be improved;</li><li>Inform taxpayers about the use and impact of their funds;</li><li>Find ways to acquaint students with ideas that are dismissed or marginalized on campuses today;</li><li>Be a watchdog for legislative and administrative governance.</li></ul>

<hr class="rule" noshade="noshade" size="1" style="" /><h2 style="">Background</h2>

The university system in the United States has accomplished a great

deal of good, but we believe that higher education in the United States,

including North Carolina, has strayed from its chief goals of scholarly

inquiry and responsible teaching.

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.

<hr class="rule" noshade="noshade" size="1" style="" /><h2 style="">Projects</h2>

Pope Center projects include articles, research papers, lectures, conferences, and other projects:

<ul style=""><li>An email commentary on higher education, the <a href="http://www.popecenter.org/clarion_call/index.html">Clarion Call</a>, and the higher education section of the John Locke publication <a title="http://carolinajournal.com/cjprint/" href="http://carolinajournal.com/cjprint/" target="_blank">Carolina Journal</a>.</li><li>Conferences and lectures. In 2013, the Pope Center sponsored a

conference on teacher education and a luncheon honoring Milton Friedman.

In 2010, George Leef, director of research, took part in a PBS debate

over higher education along with former education secretary Margaret

Spellings and others.</li><li><a href="http://www.popecenter.org/inquiry_papers/index.html">Research papers</a>. Recent papers include Pell Grants: Where Does All the Money Go? And The State of the State University: Critical Facts about the UNC System.</li><li>The Spirit of Inquiry Award. The Pope Center honors the state’s best professors.</li><li>Websites providing information about North Carolina colleges and universities for <a title="http://nccollegefinder.org/" href="http://nccollegefinder.org/" target="blank">potential students</a> and for <a title="http://alumniguide.org/" href="http://alumniguide.org/" target="blank">alumni</a>.</li></ul>

<hr class="rule" noshade="noshade" size="1" style="" /><h2 style="">Personnel</h2>

Jenna A. Robinson is president of the Pope Center; George Leef is

director of research; and Jay Schalin is director of policy analysis

The chairman of the Pope Center is Arch T. Allen, former vice

chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a

former member of its Board of Trustees.

Additional information, including staff biographies, is available at <a href="http://www.popecenter.org/about/staff_fellows_scholars.html" style="">About the Staff</a>, <a href="http://www.popecenter.org/about/board_directors.html" style="">Board of Directors</a>, and <a href="http://www.popecenter.org/about/academic_advisory.html" style="">Academic Advisory Committee</a>. </div></div>