Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on The Harvard Salient on May 05, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. The most important moment in my life occurred on November 21st, 2022, during my freshman year at Harvard, when I became a Christian. […]
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As part of the National Association of Scholars’s (NAS) ongoing reporting on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), I’ve been FOIAing DEI practices—scholarships, fellowships, hiring programs, trainings, strategic plans, etc.—and in August, I came across a massive DEI hiring program, the Diversifying Higher Education Faculty Initiative (DFI). The DFI is a faculty hiring program that discriminates […]
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“Surrender, in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!” That was Ethan Allen gently explaining to the skeleton British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga that their time had come. The capture of the fort on May 10, 1775, by what amounted to a guerrilla American force was not a battle for the ages. […]
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The Second Continental Congress opened on May 10, 1775. The British had already fired upon Massachusetts militia men at Lexington and Concord. Soon, Congress would make itself into a genuine, revolutionary government by taking on the traditional tasks of borrowing money, printing paper currency, and raising an army, which is what they needed the money […]
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One of the best parts of the higher ed portion of the reconciliation bill being pushed in the House of Representatives is a shift from cost of attendance (COA) to median cost of attendance (MCOA). What is the Cost of Attendance and Why Does It Matter? COA is the total cost of attending college, including […]
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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. Public funding of academic research is shaping up as a major political confrontation between universities and the Trump administration. The first […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the Journal of the American Revolution on November 26, 2024. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. The adjectives leveled Benedict Arnold’s way by contemporaries and historians leave little room for doubt. Though he inspired devotion among those serving under him, the […]
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In a development highlighting the continued aggression of the pro-Palestinian movement at Columbia, over 100 pro-Palestinian protesters wearing kaffiyahs and hiding their identities with masks stormed Columbia University’s Butler Library yesterday, remaining until the evening before being forced out by the NYPD. The incident came despite efforts on the part of the Columbia administration to […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the Stanford Review on May 07, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. This summer, a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agent impersonated a Stanford student. Under the alias Charles Chen, he approached several students through social media. Anna*, a Stanford student […]
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Author’s Note: This article is from my weekly “Top of Mind” email, sent to subscribers every Thursday. For more content like this and to receive the full newsletter each week, enter your name and email under “SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ‘TOP OF MIND,’” located on the right-hand side of the site. Ohio has become […]
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Editor’s Note: The following excerpt is from an article originally published by Diogenes In Exile on May 5, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. It is high noon, and the dust is swirling between higher education accreditors and the executive branch of the U.S. government. The president has […]
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Author’s Note: This open letter to my students and the higher education community is intended for broad readership and circulation. The views expressed are solely my own and do not reflect those of Arizona State University or any other academic institution. Informed by my experience teaching at five universities, including the University of Maryland and […]
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Laments about the politicization of higher education and the ill effects of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies rarely address the roles that university presses play in these processes, but they should. While the presses publish quality scholarship on many subjects, most university presses are committed to contemporary liberal and radical political causes, reflecting the […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by RealClear Education on May 05, 2025. It has been edited to match MTC’s style guidelines and is crossposted here with permission. A graduate student I have worked with over the past year recently emailed me to share the exciting news that he will be teaching a course this fall. Being able to design […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Hartford Courant on May 06, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. The humanities are more important than ever, and in many ways, they represent the essence of the university’s mission, especially in how they protect and reinforce our heritage and […]
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When people ask me, “What is the worst thing the federal government has done regarding higher education,” I say it is a close call between two policy blunders: its entering the student loan business for college students, and the creation of the U.S. Department of Education (ED). But if forced to choose, I would say […]
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Editor’s Note: The following excerpt is from an article originally published by the National Association of Scholars on May 6, 2025, and is cross-posted here with permission. The deluge of education news out of the White House has yet to cease. President Trump signed six Executive Orders (EOs) at the end of last month, encompassing a range […]
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Harvard University is perhaps the most successful institution of the last 400 years, outside of some nation states and a handful of religions. Yet, that very success may have set Harvard up for failure in its current confrontation with the Trump administration. An April 22nd New York Times article, “As Harvard Is Hailed a Hero, […]
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“Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.” Proverbs 18:21 (English Standard Version) The Bible is full of wise references to the power of our words. We can use words to build up or tear down. Ideally, words are given life to communicate important […]
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President Trump recently signed an executive order directed at Smithsonian museums and national parks, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” Perhaps unsurprisingly, much of the attention since has focused on the Smithsonian piece of the order. The appointment of a National Park Service (NPS) director is often an afterthought; to date, no director has […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by American Thinker on May 05, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. President Trump is getting a lot of unwarranted media criticism for stating that he isn’t a lawyer who can give a formal constitutional law opinion on due process for illegal border crossers. […]
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The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has urged the Trump Administration to spare the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) from its planned dismemberment of the U.S. Department of Education (ED), IES being the research and data collection wing of ED. In a March 31, 2025, article, the NAS wrote: Much of what ED does is […]
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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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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on April 24, 2025. The Observatory translated it into English from French. 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. With contributions from Olivier Beaud (Paris II), Arnaud […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by All Things Rhapsodical on May 01, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. It is common these days to hear that climate justice requires redistributive payments from those societies, such as the U.S., that contribute most to greenhouse gas emissions to […]
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2,105 vs. 44. As of April 25, 2025, 2,105 accredited universities and colleges in the U.S. are test-optional or test-free in their undergraduate admissions, while a paltry 19 private and 35 public colleges require SAT or ACT scores for admission. An astounding ratio of 48 to one! With the exception of a few high-profile cases—MIT, […]
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Author’s Note: This article is from my weekly “Top of Mind” email, sent to subscribers every Thursday. For more content like this and to receive the full newsletter each week, enter your name and email under “SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ‘TOP OF MIND,’” located on the right-hand side of the site. Scott Galloway, the […]
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