Year: 2025

Florida Fought Leftist Indoctrination. So Why Is It Imposing It on Counselors?

For years, Florida fought back against leftist overreach in education. So why is it now forcing every aspiring counselor, including school counselors, to undergo ideological training that contradicts the state’s own values? The Hidden Trojan Horse in Florida’s Counseling Standards Florida has taken bold steps to combat the influence of woke ideology in K-12 and […]

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Remembering and New Proposals for Reform

Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the National Association of Scholars on October 7, 2025. It is crossposted here with permission. Today, of course, is October 7. Two years ago, the terrorist organization Hamas led the charge into southern Israel, trailed by a few thousand Gazans, for an hours-long conflagration of the most barbaric kind. […]

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The University of Southern California Should Embrace Trump’s Compact

University of Southern California (USC) Interim President Beong Soo Kim has been handed a great gift in the form of the Trump administration’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” Currently, the nine universities that have been asked to review the draft Compact have not been asked to sign it; instead, they have been […]

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New Index Names America’s Worst Medical Schools for DEI Indoctrination

Do No Harm, founded by former Penn Medical School dean Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, has launched the Center for Accountability in Medicine (CAM). “Through data-driven research and public rankings, the Center empowers policy solutions grounded in evidence and equal opportunity – not ideology,” the website reads. Its newest initiative, the Medical School Excellence Index, ranks medical […]

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Penn Medicine’s ‘Black Doctors Directory’ Must Open to All Races, Court Rules

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of an article originally published by the College Fix on October 3, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) Medicine’s Black Doctors Directory can no longer exclude members based on race following a recent district […]

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An Answer to an ‘Excruciating Question’

The temptation to twist logic for racist ends is almost irresistible. I encountered an almost humorous example a few months ago in an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by a professor of religious studies and philosophy. Richard Amesbury’s claim is that criticism of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies is racist. Which is […]

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Students Are Reading Garbage

It’s no secret that student literacy is declining. SAT reading scores of Ivy League admits are consistently lower than their SAT math scores, with students from Brown, Columbia, Penn, and Harvard scoring 40 points lower on reading comprehension than on math. Similarly, the National Center for Education Statistics has reported a consistent decline in both […]

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The Death of Discourse

Recently, Americans across the country were shocked and horrified as they watched video footage of a young husband and father assassinated while speaking on a college campus. The ripple effects of his murder were immediately apparent across both the nation and the rest of the world. Many wept over the tragedy of a young man […]

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Confessions of a Former College Ranker

Colleges and universities are in the business of knowledge—creating and disseminating information, ideas, and facts. Some, such as community and small liberal arts colleges, almost exclusively disseminate ideas created by others, while larger universities aspire to be powerhouses in creating new knowledge. But virtually all of them work assiduously at preventing the general public from […]

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He Kindled the Flame Academia Let Die

Socrates reportedly said, “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” Yet, most college faculty have abandoned that principle. Instead of cultivating intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and the pursuit of truth in their students, too many professors today use their classrooms as a platform to impose the rigid ideology and […]

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Harvard Hires Illustrious Academic

Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the Harvard Salient on October 3, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. In its unending quest to prove that it remains the unrivaled beacon of Western civilization, Harvard University has announced the appointment of Dr. Kareem Khubchandani […]

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FAIR Files Civil Rights Complaint Over ‘Anti-Racist’ Study That Shamed White Students

A pair of professors admitted they intentionally provoked shame, guilt, and anger in their white students—then recorded those reactions as data for a study. When Quinn Hafen from the University of Wyoming and Marie Villescas from Colorado State University (CSU) were putting together their study at CSU to determine if co-teaching with professors of different […]

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The Coming Jewish-Student ‘Brain Drain’

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of an article originally published by The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on October 3, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. After the most recent outbreak of campus anti-Semitism in America, the Israel Association of University Heads issued […]

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OpenAI Rolls Out Study Mode—Can It Curb AI Cheating as Students Get Smarter at Hiding It?

On July 29, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT—a generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot—launched a new feature called “study mode” for the platform. Specifically geared towards students, study mode offers a guided learning experience that helps users work through problems step by step, rather than simply providing direct answers. The company acknowledged ChatGPT’s widespread use among […]

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The Politics of an Anti-Woke Campus Op-Ed, Continued

Editor’s Note: This is a follow-up to an earlier article, “The Politics of an Anti-Woke Campus Op-Ed.”  I previously wrote about the vitriolically partisan reaction to an open letter to the University of Virginia’s (UVA) interim president that I published in the campus newspaper, the Cavalier Daily. One of the points I made—but far from […]

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Trump’s Education Department Delivers Earliest FAFSA Rollout in History, Overturning Biden’s Botched Legacy

With drastic improvements, the 2026–27 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) was launched ahead of the October 1 deadline—marking the earliest rollout in the program’s history. U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon contrasted the milestone with the Biden-Harris administration’s botched launch two years ago, when technical failures delayed aid processing for millions of students. […]

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Why the West’s Colder Welcome to International Students Isn’t a Setback

British universities aren’t just teaching—they’re a pipeline, a gateway for hundreds of thousands to turn a student visa into permanent residency. That’s what Alp Mehmet revealed in the Spectator: over half a million foreigners have stayed in Britain via the student visa route since 2022. In 2023 alone, nearly half of all new visas went […]

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Letter to the Editor: Reflections on Maturity and Wisdom

Editor’s Note: This response was submitted in early September 2025 in response to Jared Gould’s Top of Mind column, “If You Want Young Adults to Grow Up, Don’t Bar Them from Serious Work,” published December 5, 2024. Well, I am back from Gotham [Manhattan]. We walked through Hudson Yards on our way to Moynihan Station, […]

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Seven Theses for Viewpoint Diversity

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) recently published an essay in its flagship magazine, Academe, titled “Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity.” Written by Lisa Siraganian, the J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities and professor at Johns Hopkins University, the piece makes a sweeping and unsettling claim: that efforts to foster intellectual diversity on […]

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AI Can Boost Learning and Retention, Chief Technology Officer Says

The presence of artificial intelligence (AI) on college campuses is a foregone conclusion—a recent report found that 93 percent of students use it regularly for coursework. By this point, it is no longer a question of whether AI tools will be used on college campuses, but instead, how they will be used. Back in July, […]

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‘Inclusive Excellence’—Rebranding DEI into a Participation Trophy

As universities attempt to rebrand their “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programs and offices, many have embraced the term “inclusive excellence,” promoting it as a strategy to recognize and cultivate both individual and institutional success. Inclusive excellence is framed as a method that values multiple perspectives to enhance overall performance. But in practice, it is […]

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Trump Administration Says It Wants to Fight Racial Discrimination in College Admissions—Then Things Got Weird

For my entire adult life, I can’t recall an initiative to collect data to combat racial discrimination that has not been met with enthusiastic support. But then President Trump announced that colleges would have to submit more of their admissions data to combat racial discrimination, and things got weird. To understand the context here, recall […]

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The West Is Giving International Students a Colder Welcome

International students have long been a lifeline for universities; one could even argue that they are a cash cow. They bring global perspectives, help fill enrollment gaps, and—very importantly—pay tuition at higher levels that subsidize the tuition of domestic students. For decades, countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia competed […]

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UPDATE: Judge Ordered Texas State to Reinstate Fired Professor Thomas Alter

Yesterday, we reported that Texas State University (TXST) had terminated Thomas Alter, a newly tenured associate professor of history, following remarks he made on a virtual September 7th Socialist Horizon conference. At the time of that publication, we didn’t yet know that a Hays County district judge had already ordered the university to reinstate him […]

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Oklahoma’s New Standards Strengthen Social Studies and Science—Now They Must Be Carried into Classrooms

Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs on September 29, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Oklahoma’s new social studies and science standards make it possible for students to have much-improved instruction in Oklahoma’s public K-12 classrooms. It […]

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Joe Nalven on Keeping Art Human in an AI World

Editor’s Note: The following is an interview with Minding the Campus contributor Joe Nalven, published initially on Harald Johnson’s Substack, Create or Die, on August 20, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Joe Nalven is a creative, artist, instructor, and writer based in San Diego. He covers […]

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How a Small Liberal Arts College Is Preparing the First Responders of the Future

The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the indispensable role of emergency responders in the healthcare system—and the pressing need to bolster that workforce. Since 2020, shortages of healthcare workers, including first responders, have become especially acute. A 2024 study by Mercer projected that the U.S. will see a total deficit of 100,000 critical healthcare workers by 2028 […]

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Professors Have Much to Learn from This College Dropout

What if I told you that a college dropout did more for higher education than many college professors? Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), never earned a formal degree; yet, his influence on American campuses has reshaped discussions around free speech and viewpoint diversity. Kirk dropped out of college, opting instead to […]

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2025: An Awesome Odyssey

This article presents a sharp and witty critique of the challenges faced in navigating modern technology in higher education. It effectively blends humor and personal anecdotes, utilizing clever cultural references. The engaging writing style is accessible yet insightful, pulling readers in with vivid metaphors and irony. I know this because the artificial intelligence (AI) platform […]

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Conservatives Don’t Need to Flash Their Free Speech Card for Profs Who Cheer Kirk’s Assassination

Conservatives do not need to go out of their way to defend academics who celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk. “People have come out caping for the devil that walked among us […] so no. I will not pull back from CELEBRATING that an evil man died by the method he chose to embrace,” University […]

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