Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on April 10, 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. Last April, Fabrice Balanche, a […]
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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. “In order to […]
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The reconciliation bill is shaping up to be the boldest legislative change in higher education in decades. But it is still in an early stage, with the House having passed its version, and the Senate hoping to do so soon. Next will come negotiation to work out any differences between the House and Senate versions, […]
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In Episode 8 of The Week in Science, I outline the details of the 2026 presidential budget request for science funding, highlighting some new studies that detail the complex migration of humans from Africa. This being the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Steven Spielberg’s movie Jaws, there’s news about the science of sharks, too! […]
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The Harvard Crimson has a grammar-challenged headline asking, “Who Does Harvard Owe?” The editors rebuff all those who believe that Harvard owes something to America. Or for that matter, to “Congress,” the media, its alumni, and others on the question of how the university should be governed. The Crimson’s answer boils down to ‘shove off, […]
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On April 9th, I reported that more than two dozen articles by National Science Foundation (NSF) director Sethuraman Panchanathan had been called out for verbatim copying without citing sources, some of which were copyrighted. Two weeks later, on April 24th, Panchanathan announced his departure from NSF, but did not provide a reason. He returned to […]
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On Monday, June 9, the American Council on Education (ACE) hosted an afternoon Commission on Faith-Based Colleges and Universities at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The program featured a keynote address by author and Professor Ryan R. Burge, as well as remarks by representatives from religious schools such as Reverend Robert A. Dowd, President of Notre […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on June 13, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Following the shock caused by the anti-Semitic campus riots of spring 2024, Günther Jikeli spoke up. Jikeli, an associate professor from Germany and one of […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on June 24, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. To honor its inaugural Title IX month, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched an investigation into the University of Wyoming (UW) […]
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a National Terrorism Advisory System warning. This concerns the potential risks to civilians that could arise from sleeper cells within any domestic institution. Several of our universities—especially elite universities—have been protecting thousands of unknown illegal border invaders, with legal assistance services administered through their law schools, and […]
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“What Is Replacing DEI? Racism” is the title of a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Arizona State University professor Richard Amesbury. It is provocative, for sure, but also comes across as ignorant since racism is to many people a feature of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) itself. How can abolishing DEI […]
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In the second episode of VAS News Chat, I join Teresa Manning, Policy Director at the National Association of Scholars and President of its Virginia affiliate, for a conversation on some of last week’s most important developments in higher education. We begin with my recent article on the decline of the liberal arts—and how conservatives […]
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From the Military Times: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has barred the U.S. military service academies from considering race, gender or ethnicity in their admissions processes, ending the practice of affirmative action upheld by the Supreme Court two years ago. This is an easy order for Hegseth to give. But it will be hard for him, […]
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Much of the global press is engaged in broad speculation over how Iran will respond to the United States’ recent bombing of its nuclear facilities. Coverage includes warnings about potential domestic fallout and calls for heightened vigilance against possible retaliation by Iranian “sleeper cells” already within the U.S. This overlooks, however, that mainstream partisan political […]
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In Episode 7 of The Week in Science, host Scott Turner, Director of Science Programs at the National Association of Scholars, takes on how science strangled its own intellectual independence, why Trump-era budget cuts aren’t the end of the world, and what a new study says about boys, girls, and math. First up: Science magazine […]
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In the 21st century, what is the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of the collegiate path to monetary success? STEM perhaps. Law. Maybe business. A young college student announcing one of these career paths at Thanksgiving dinner is bound to receive approving nods and complimentary remarks. But what about fields such […]
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Ohio State University (OSU) has announced an all-encompassing artificial intelligence (AI) program for its undergraduate class of 2029. Launching this fall for first-year students, Ohio State’s AI Fluency initiative will embed AI education into the core of every undergraduate curriculum, equipping students with the ability to not only use AI tools, but to understand, question […]
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Imagine a board run by your competitors who decide whether you’re allowed to work. That is the process of licensing. Rebecca Haw Allensworth’s The Licensure Racket opens with the story of Omar Mahmoud, a 52-year-old Army veteran, Arabic-speaking immigrant, and licensed barber. After moving to Tennessee, he hoped to continue the career he had pursued […]
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Author’s Note: July 2025 will mark the centenary of the famous Tennessee “Scopes Monkey Trial.” This is the third article in a series leading up to the centennial events in Dayton, Tennessee, the site of the trial. Read the first in the series here and the second here. In the 1925 Dayton Monkey Trial, it […]
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Author’s Note: This article is from my weekly “Top of Mind” email, sent to subscribers every week. 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. In 2011, the […]
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The intense anti-Semitic environment that has been allowed to flourish at Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) and has even been promoted by its president, Cristle Collins Judd, has rightfully drawn the attention of members of Congress, federal agencies, and the press. SLC has become an increasingly hostile place for Zionist and Jewish students, with open calls […]
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The Continental Congress appointed George Washington Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army on June 19, 1775. Washington did not think he was qualified for the job. It’s not like any other part of the Patriot resistance was ready for war. Washington was off to lead a bunch of Massachusetts farmers who trained part-time. There were a […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on RealClear Education on June 5, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. For generations, my Russian family’s Jewish identity was systematically silenced. When we immigrated to Boca Raton, Florida, it felt like beginning a new chapter—one […]
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Congress is weighing the possibility of creating “Workforce Pell.” Those would be Pell Grants, not for college students, but for individuals who want to enroll in short-term programs aimed at credentialing them for immediate employment. The idea is attractive to those of us who believe that far too many young people are lured into college […]
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Two of my great-great-grandfathers left Maine in the “fight to make men free”—one came back without his foot, and the other died in “Hospital, Washington;” we don’t even know where he was buried. Ending the horrible evil of slavery should be celebrated, but June 19, 1865, is neither the day it ended nor one significant […]
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A previous Minding the Campus article reported apparent plagiarism in an article by Sethuraman Panchanathan, the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Panchanathan’s article was published by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), but it copied extensively, without citation or quotation marks or copyright permission, from an article copyrighted by the Institute of Electrical […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on April 22, 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. We read the remarkable work […]
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The University of Virginia (UVA) is currently under investigation by the federal government because its administration is attempting to maintain its illegal “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) regime in secret after the Board of Visitors voted in March to dismantle it. The administration is also stonewalling the Board’s April resolution, which called for more viewpoint […]
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Today’s college students are more anxious and depressed than ever. A study by the Healthy Minds Network revealed that 38 percent of students in 2023–24 reported symptoms of depression, including loss of enjoyment and persistent feelings of hopelessness. In response, universities have ramped up mental health messaging—through emails, workshops, and mindfulness events—urging students to prioritize […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on June 6, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. “Hate speech” and other conduct should be further policed by Michigan State University (MSU), according to the campus Black Student Alliance. The activist […]
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