Day: March 3, 2025

Accreditation Protects the Status Quo—It’s Time for Drastic Reform

Higher education accreditation is an arcane but vitally important target for reform in the new administration. Accreditation is used to ensure colleges meet a minimal level of quality—colleges without an accreditor approval do not have access to federal financial aid programs like Pell Grants and student loans. But accreditation is broken. As I lay out […]

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Barnard’s Leaders Have Let Anti-Semitic Mobs Take Control

Barnard College was finally showing signs of responsible leadership when it expelled two students for participating in an egregious, anti-Semitic disruption of a class on modern Israel at Columbia earlier this semester. But after almost two years of anti-Semitic chaos on campus, the college’s leaders have evidently still not learned their lesson. When protesters who were […]

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Institutions Will Not Cure Themselves—That’s Why Anti-DEI Legislation Is Necessary

It is immensely encouraging to see state legislatures proposing and, in some cases, passing bills that would end “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) indoctrination in public colleges and universities. DEI programs are widespread in higher education, and they do profound harm to students, faculty, and the quality of education. Getting rid of them, however, is […]

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Trump Is Correcting Title IX. Are His Fixes Permanent?

Initially enacted in 1972 to prohibit sex-based discrimination in federally funded educational institutions, Title IX aimed to ensure women’s equal participation in academia. But in the last few decades, each U.S. president has attempted to make amendments to the law. In 2011, the Obama administration broadened its scope to include sexual harassment and assault, mandating […]

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Job Profiles in Inclusive Writing: The Administration Backtracks

Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on March 6, 2024. It was translated from French into English by the Observatory and subsequently edited to conform to Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. It is crossposted here with permission. While the acronym “INSPE” is not explicitly defined, it […]

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Ohio Congressman Introduces HEAT Act to Hold Elite Colleges Accountable for Rising Tuition and Endowment Misuse

On Feb. 5, U.S. Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH), in collaboration with Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), introduced the Higher Education Accountability Tax (HEAT) Act, H.R. 1006.  By amending the Internal Revenue Code, the bill seeks to hold private colleges and universities accountable for their role in the student debt crisis by increasing taxes on their investment […]

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UC Berkeley’s Ongoing Ties with China Pose Growing Threat to U.S. Interests

During the Civil War, Democrats attempted to use cotton and private shipping companies to undermine American security and gain support in Europe for the Confederacy. Today, the blue state of California is leveraging Berkeley to build ties with China and undermine America’s qualitative advantages in dual-use technology and to undermine energy independence. On the West […]

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A Legal Shootout Is Brewing at Berkeley Over Anti-Semitism, Trump, and the United Auto Workers Union

Earlier this month, Vice President JD Vance delivered a blistering speech to Europeans that questioned whether the other half of the West adheres to a commitment to free speech or is embracing censorship and a suicidal embrace of mass migration. In Europe, these issues have been at the forefront of the leadup to Germany’s election. […]

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