Month: October 2025

Redemption for a Baylor Memorial

Author’s Note: The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent the official position or views of Baylor University. The Memorial to Enslaved Persons at Baylor University, a private Christian university in Waco, Texas, represents an effort to acknowledge and make amends for the university’s historical ties to the objectively […]

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22 States Still Offer In-State Tuition to Illegal Immigrant Students

Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the College Fix on October 15, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Nearly half of U.S. states offer in-state tuition to illegal immigrant students despite federal restrictions on such benefits, according to the Higher ED Immigration Portal. Among […]

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The Rot Inside Higher Education Is Too Deep to Self-Correct

“Under the Trump Administration, America is descending into the long night of fascism.” That is the mantra of professors around the country who condemn the administration’s efforts in higher education to reverse the recent explosion of anti-Semitism, to ensure the presentation of multiple viewpoints, and to end programs that violate the Supreme Court decision in […]

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Ohio Takes the Lead in Civics Education

With its new institutes of civics and culture, Ohio has become a leader not just for the restoration of civics education but also for traditional humanities in American higher education. These centers were established in large part because of National Association of Scholars (NAS) President Peter Wood, NAS Research Director David Randall, and President of the NAS Ohio affiliate, Case Western Reserve emeritus law professor George Dent, all of whom either […]

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UofL’s Selective Empathy

Like many others, I have found myself less efficient and effective at work over the past few weeks. On Wednesday, September 10, I was very upset that Charlie Kirk was assassinated at a college event in Utah while engaging in free speech. I was thinking about what a tragedy that was for his young children, […]

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America’s Unipolar Moment Is Coming to an End—Its Universities Must Adapt to the Rising Multipolar Order

On January 1, 1990, Charles Krauthammer penned a piece for Foreign Affairs in which he asserted that the world had now entered the “Unipolar Moment,” a moment in which the United States remained the sole superpower and arbiter of world affairs through the American-led financial, trade, economic, and security-based system. In this article, Krauthammer stated: […]

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Visa Students: Non-Citizens Are Guests and Should Not Have the Same Rights as Americans

Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on American Greatness on October 10, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. On September 30, 2025, a federal trial court in Massachusetts found that the Trump Administration violated the First Amendment in March when it moved to detain and deport Mahmoud […]

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Why Do Students Cheat So Much?

It’s no secret that academic dishonesty is rampant at colleges and universities across the country—around the world, really. Indeed, cheating, to use the old-fashioned term, has been on the rise for decades, beginning with the arrival of the internet in the 1990s, and it took a quantum leap at the start of this decade.  According to Times Higher Education, the […]

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Reflections on What I Heard About Boomers at an Academic Summit

It’s only on rare occasions that you don’t receive this letter from me, and last week was one of those rare occasions because I was immersed at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s (ISI) 2025 American Politics and Government Summit, ISI’s annual gathering of conservative scholars and faculty, in Delaware. For two days, we delved into lectures […]

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Australians Turn to the Classics to Rediscover Their Cultural Inheritance

Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on Qudrant on October 2, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Given the parlous state of Australia’s education system, which sees so many students leave school morally adrift, emotionally fraught, and culturally illiterate, it’s not surprising hundreds of […]

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UPDATE: Texas State President Upholds Firing of Thomas Alter, Sparking Socialist-Led Protest

Just two weeks after a Hays County judge ordered Texas State University (TXST) to reinstate Associate Professor of History Thomas Alter, the university has terminated him once again. Alter’s latest dismissal followed a due process hearing on Monday, October 13, during which administrators upheld his original firing over remarks he made at a virtual September […]

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SEL and the Surveillance of the American Mind

Imagine an era where Big Tech, billionaire foundations, and government bureaucrats feast on your child’s innermost thoughts from kindergarten right through college. Now read The New Face of Woke Education by Priscilla West, and discover the chilling surveillance state masquerading as Social Emotional Learning (SEL) already deeply embedded in schools near you. While innocuous sounding, […]

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Let’s Talk About Sex… Like Adults. Because the Universities Won’t.

“Do you crave hookups without hangouts? Do you want to come without commitment? Do you want desire without all the drama?” That was the opening of the article, “Sex & the CT: Beginner’s Guide to Casual Sex,” recently posted on the University of Rochester’s student newspaper, Campus Times. The piece, which appears to have been […]

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Teachers’ Unions Have an Out-of-Control Anti-Semitism Problem

When we think of modern-day anti-Semitism in America, the images that come to mind are often the pro-Palestinian—and, by extension, pro-Hamas—protests that erupted across college and university campuses. Quads and courtyards filled with masked demonstrators in keffiyehs chanting, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free.” Reports of Israel history classes disrupted, staff […]

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Academia Fails to Confront the Anti-Semitism Within

One week ago marked the anniversary of October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists murdered 1,200 Israelis and took 250 more hostage. While the hostages have since been released and initial steps toward a ceasefire are underway, tensions on college campuses, and the fear surrounding them, show no sign of easing alongside shifting geopolitics. Columbia University, […]

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The Court Drew a Line—But Schools Still Think They Own Your Kids

The recent Supreme Court decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor (2025) ruled that parents are entitled to a preliminary injunction, allowing their children to opt out of school instruction that uses LGBTQIA2S+ inclusive books. The ruling’s broader implications indicate that parents, not school officials, have the primary responsibility—indeed, the constitutional right—to guide the education of their […]

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The Missing Puzzle Piece of Higher Education

A traditional four-year education has historically been advertised to encompass two key components: knowledge formation and practical application. Critical thinking and intellectual debate—values with intrinsic worth that quench one’s thirst for knowledge and foster analytical assessment in daily life—exist as the base of academia: knowledge formation. On top of this stands practical application—expertise and skills […]

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It Was a Gamble

On October 13, 1775, the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Navy. How could the rebellious colonies dream of putting themselves forward as a sea power against the Royal Navy, the strongest maritime force in the world? It was another instance of the weakness that sometimes makes men audacious. Knowing that they had neither the […]

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Columbia’s ‘Listening Table’ Band-Aid Can’t Heal Institutional Rot

Columbia University is trying, at least in part, to heal. Some students and faculty sincerely want to restore a sense of shared community after a year of turmoil. Others remain defiant and still steeped in the same antagonism, ideological rigidity, and anti-Semitism that poisoned campus life to begin with. The university’s latest experiment, the Listening […]

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The Tyranny of Democracy’s Self-Appointed Guardians

The Democratic Party, mainstream media, leftist intelligentsia, and their activist supporters are in a full-on panic mode about the fate of “American democracy.” Not only are these self-anointed freedom warriors gravely “concerned” about the prospects of democracy under the leadership of their political opponents, disregarding that America is in fact a constitutional representative republic, they […]

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In France, the Woke Are the Victims Now, Says Le Monde

Editor’s Note: The following excerpt is from an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on October 1, 2025. The Observatory translated it from French into English. 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. Never short of ideas […]

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Higher Education Can Survive Its Challenges, and AI Can Help, Says Academic Strategist

Colleges and universities in the U.S. have faced mounting challenges in recent years. A declining birth rate has led to fewer applicants; rising tuition costs and the ideological takeover of institutions have made Americans increasingly skeptical of higher education; and the growth of online and nontraditional programs—with their ability to credential workers more efficiently—has further […]

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AAUP Declares Victory Over Trump’s ‘Thought Police,’ Promises To Protect Only the Right Kind of Free Speech

Dear Samuel, In a landmark ruling, a federal court yesterday ruled that the Trump administration, as part of a broad assault on our civil rights, violated the First Amendment in carrying out a policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons. The AAUP, the Middle Eastern Studies Association and several AAUP chapters […]

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Ten Books That Influenced This Economist

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of an article originally published on the author’s Substack on August 17, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Here, with a few comments on each, are the top ten books that have influenced me in my career as […]

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Some Observations on New College Rankings

Previously, I pointed out the obvious: university rankings reflect the perceptions of what determines collegiate excellence, as decided by the rankers. One ranking organization might stress the positive perceived advantage to students of social mobility, the degree of economic diversity that there is between students. Others might emphasize job placement or the financial return on […]

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Florida Fought Leftist Indoctrination. So Why Is It Imposing It on Counselors?

For years, Florida fought back against leftist overreach in education. So why is it now forcing every aspiring counselor, including school counselors, to undergo ideological training that contradicts the state’s own values? The Hidden Trojan Horse in Florida’s Counseling Standards Florida has taken bold steps to combat the influence of woke ideology in K-12 and […]

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Remembering and New Proposals for Reform

Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the National Association of Scholars on October 7, 2025. It is crossposted here with permission. Today, of course, is October 7. Two years ago, the terrorist organization Hamas led the charge into southern Israel, trailed by a few thousand Gazans, for an hours-long conflagration of the most barbaric kind. […]

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The University of Southern California Should Embrace Trump’s Compact

University of Southern California (USC) Interim President Beong Soo Kim has been handed a great gift in the form of the Trump administration’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” Currently, the nine universities that have been asked to review the draft Compact have not been asked to sign it; instead, they have been […]

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New Index Names America’s Worst Medical Schools for DEI Indoctrination

Do No Harm, founded by former Penn Medical School dean Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, has launched the Center for Accountability in Medicine (CAM). “Through data-driven research and public rankings, the Center empowers policy solutions grounded in evidence and equal opportunity – not ideology,” the website reads. Its newest initiative, the Medical School Excellence Index, ranks medical […]

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Penn Medicine’s ‘Black Doctors Directory’ Must Open to All Races, Court Rules

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of an article originally published by the College Fix on October 3, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) Medicine’s Black Doctors Directory can no longer exclude members based on race following a recent district […]

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