Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the soon-to-be-published National Association of Scholars report, Rescuing Science. It has been edited to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines and is cross-posted here with permission. Since the Trump administration proposed a 15 percent cap on them in February, indirect costs on research grants are the object […]
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In response to the Trump Administration’s continued attacks on higher education, leaders of some of the most prominent colleges and universities are pushing back—albeit hypocritically. Nearly 500 college presidents and deans signed an open letter from the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, titled “A Call […]
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The left opposes non-governmental organizations (NGOs) influencing education policy—unless those NGOs align with its values. If those NGOs appear conservative, i.e., anti-union, anti-bureaucratic, or anti-LGBT, they face resistance. But if your NGO wants to teach students about the gender unicorn, education policy may just be the right place to be. Much to my discouragement, this […]
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I’ve recently had the honor and the pleasure to serve on the Workgroup assembled by the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) to help draft Florida’s new K-12 History of Communism standards. I shouldn’t say anything about the draft standards in detail, since they haven’t yet been published, but my fellow workgroup members and the members […]
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