Recently, Americans across the country were shocked and horrified as they watched video footage of a young husband and father assassinated while speaking on a college campus. The ripple effects of his murder were immediately apparent across both the nation and the rest of the world. Many wept over the tragedy of a young man […]
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Colleges and universities are in the business of knowledge—creating and disseminating information, ideas, and facts. Some, such as community and small liberal arts colleges, almost exclusively disseminate ideas created by others, while larger universities aspire to be powerhouses in creating new knowledge. But virtually all of them work assiduously at preventing the general public from […]
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Socrates reportedly said, “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” Yet, most college faculty have abandoned that principle. Instead of cultivating intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and the pursuit of truth in their students, too many professors today use their classrooms as a platform to impose the rigid ideology and […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the Harvard Salient on October 3, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. In its unending quest to prove that it remains the unrivaled beacon of Western civilization, Harvard University has announced the appointment of Dr. Kareem Khubchandani […]
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A pair of professors admitted they intentionally provoked shame, guilt, and anger in their white students—then recorded those reactions as data for a study. When Quinn Hafen from the University of Wyoming and Marie Villescas from Colorado State University (CSU) were putting together their study at CSU to determine if co-teaching with professors of different […]
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