Much discourse on college campuses centers on identity politics—the idea that one’s identity, or the way one identifies, deserves attention and respect more than classical ideals of the academy. Instead of discussing philosophy, ethics, or what it means to live a good and moral life, students, egged on by their professors, engage in conversations about marginalization and who […]
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Love seems to be over for college students. That’s at least what I gathered from a recent conversation with a student in Texas. I’ll leave him unnamed—and because he wants total anonymity, I won’t even tell you what school he goes to. But I will tell you he’s not scoring dates. And it’s not for […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the College Fix on October 21, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Elite universities are using the H-1B foreign worker visa program to staff their “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) offices, according to a Republican senator. Missouri Senator Eric […]
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Only in America! News outlets recently mourned the passing of Sister Jean Schmidt, who lived to the remarkable age of 106. What made her so noteworthy? She wasn’t a humanitarian on the path to sainthood, nor a theological visionary. She was, rather, celebrated as America’s most devoted sports fan. She was a nun famous for […]
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Editor’s Note:The following is an excerpt of an article originally published by the National Association of Scholars on October 21, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. What is the National Association of Scholars (NAS)? One answer was provided in the current issue of the Chronicle […]
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Author’s Note: The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent the official position or views of Baylor University. The Memorial to Enslaved Persons at Baylor University, a private Christian university in Waco, Texas, represents an effort to acknowledge and make amends for the university’s historical ties to the objectively […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the College Fix on October 15, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Nearly half of U.S. states offer in-state tuition to illegal immigrant students despite federal restrictions on such benefits, according to the Higher ED Immigration Portal. Among […]
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“Under the Trump Administration, America is descending into the long night of fascism.” That is the mantra of professors around the country who condemn the administration’s efforts in higher education to reverse the recent explosion of anti-Semitism, to ensure the presentation of multiple viewpoints, and to end programs that violate the Supreme Court decision in […]
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Like many others, I have found myself less efficient and effective at work over the past few weeks. On Wednesday, September 10, I was very upset that Charlie Kirk was assassinated at a college event in Utah while engaging in free speech. I was thinking about what a tragedy that was for his young children, […]
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On January 1, 1990, Charles Krauthammer penned a piece for Foreign Affairs in which he asserted that the world had now entered the “Unipolar Moment,” a moment in which the United States remained the sole superpower and arbiter of world affairs through the American-led financial, trade, economic, and security-based system. In this article, Krauthammer stated: […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on American Greatness on October 10, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. On September 30, 2025, a federal trial court in Massachusetts found that the Trump Administration violated the First Amendment in March when it moved to detain and deport Mahmoud […]
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It’s no secret that academic dishonesty is rampant at colleges and universities across the country—around the world, really. Indeed, cheating, to use the old-fashioned term, has been on the rise for decades, beginning with the arrival of the internet in the 1990s, and it took a quantum leap at the start of this decade. According to Times Higher Education, the […]
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It’s only on rare occasions that you don’t receive this letter from me, and last week was one of those rare occasions because I was immersed at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s (ISI) 2025 American Politics and Government Summit, ISI’s annual gathering of conservative scholars and faculty, in Delaware. For two days, we delved into lectures […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on Qudrant on October 2, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Given the parlous state of Australia’s education system, which sees so many students leave school morally adrift, emotionally fraught, and culturally illiterate, it’s not surprising hundreds of […]
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Just two weeks after a Hays County judge ordered Texas State University (TXST) to reinstate Associate Professor of History Thomas Alter, the university has terminated him once again. Alter’s latest dismissal followed a due process hearing on Monday, October 13, during which administrators upheld his original firing over remarks he made at a virtual September […]
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Imagine an era where Big Tech, billionaire foundations, and government bureaucrats feast on your child’s innermost thoughts from kindergarten right through college. Now read The New Face of Woke Education by Priscilla West, and discover the chilling surveillance state masquerading as Social Emotional Learning (SEL) already deeply embedded in schools near you. While innocuous sounding, […]
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“Do you crave hookups without hangouts? Do you want to come without commitment? Do you want desire without all the drama?” That was the opening of the article, “Sex & the CT: Beginner’s Guide to Casual Sex,” recently posted on the University of Rochester’s student newspaper, Campus Times. The piece, which appears to have been […]
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When we think of modern-day anti-Semitism in America, the images that come to mind are often the pro-Palestinian—and, by extension, pro-Hamas—protests that erupted across college and university campuses. Quads and courtyards filled with masked demonstrators in keffiyehs chanting, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free.” Reports of Israel history classes disrupted, staff […]
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One week ago marked the anniversary of October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists murdered 1,200 Israelis and took 250 more hostage. While the hostages have since been released and initial steps toward a ceasefire are underway, tensions on college campuses, and the fear surrounding them, show no sign of easing alongside shifting geopolitics. Columbia University, […]
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The recent Supreme Court decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor (2025) ruled that parents are entitled to a preliminary injunction, allowing their children to opt out of school instruction that uses LGBTQIA2S+ inclusive books. The ruling’s broader implications indicate that parents, not school officials, have the primary responsibility—indeed, the constitutional right—to guide the education of their […]
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A traditional four-year education has historically been advertised to encompass two key components: knowledge formation and practical application. Critical thinking and intellectual debate—values with intrinsic worth that quench one’s thirst for knowledge and foster analytical assessment in daily life—exist as the base of academia: knowledge formation. On top of this stands practical application—expertise and skills […]
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On October 13, 1775, the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Navy. How could the rebellious colonies dream of putting themselves forward as a sea power against the Royal Navy, the strongest maritime force in the world? It was another instance of the weakness that sometimes makes men audacious. Knowing that they had neither the […]
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Columbia University is trying, at least in part, to heal. Some students and faculty sincerely want to restore a sense of shared community after a year of turmoil. Others remain defiant and still steeped in the same antagonism, ideological rigidity, and anti-Semitism that poisoned campus life to begin with. The university’s latest experiment, the Listening […]
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The Democratic Party, mainstream media, leftist intelligentsia, and their activist supporters are in a full-on panic mode about the fate of “American democracy.” Not only are these self-anointed freedom warriors gravely “concerned” about the prospects of democracy under the leadership of their political opponents, disregarding that America is in fact a constitutional representative republic, they […]
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Editor’s Note: The following excerpt is from an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on October 1, 2025. The Observatory translated it from French into English. I have edited it, to the best of my ability, to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. It is crossposted here with permission. Never short of ideas […]
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Colleges and universities in the U.S. have faced mounting challenges in recent years. A declining birth rate has led to fewer applicants; rising tuition costs and the ideological takeover of institutions have made Americans increasingly skeptical of higher education; and the growth of online and nontraditional programs—with their ability to credential workers more efficiently—has further […]
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Dear Samuel, In a landmark ruling, a federal court yesterday ruled that the Trump administration, as part of a broad assault on our civil rights, violated the First Amendment in carrying out a policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons. The AAUP, the Middle Eastern Studies Association and several AAUP chapters […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of an article originally published on the author’s Substack on August 17, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Here, with a few comments on each, are the top ten books that have influenced me in my career as […]
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Previously, I pointed out the obvious: university rankings reflect the perceptions of what determines collegiate excellence, as decided by the rankers. One ranking organization might stress the positive perceived advantage to students of social mobility, the degree of economic diversity that there is between students. Others might emphasize job placement or the financial return on […]
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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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