Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by American Greatness on August 25, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. Trump’s war on self-serving colleges and universities appears to be going well. Settlements from race and sex discrimination investigations have been reached with Columbia, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania, among others. However, one provision in […]
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Imagine being a STEM (Science, Engineering, Technology, and Math) student at a small teaching university, working on your senior thesis at 2 am. Searching through Google Scholar, you click on a journal article title to read through the abstract. You smile. It’s the perfect addition. You click the “download PDF” button, excited to finally finish […]
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In April, Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) introduced H.R. 2262, the Flexibility for Workers Education Act. The bill aims to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to exclude from employees’ hours worked educational or skills-based training offered by employers. Under current legislation, training related to one’s job must be compensated by their employer, […]
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On June 6, the Department of Education (ED) announced plans to expand efforts to eliminate identity theft and fraud in federal student aid programs. It revealed that nearly $90 million had been disbursed to ineligible recipients over the past three years, including $30 million to thousands of deceased individuals. Additionally, fraud detection efforts have identified […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of an article originally published by The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on August 22, 2025. It is cross-posted here with permission. Much has been reported lately on the influence of foreign actors such as Qatar, Iran, and China on American campuses. What seems to slip under the […]
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The editor of this sainted website, Jared Gould, recently and provocatively argued that colleges are complicit in the rising frustration and rage among students indoctrinated in the fashionable wokeness of the modern academy. Case in point: the disconcerting behavior of many students who viewed Luigi Mangione, an honors Ivy League graduate and the suspected killer […]
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