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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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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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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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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The temptation to twist logic for racist ends is almost irresistible. I encountered an almost humorous example a few months ago in an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by a professor of religious studies and philosophy. Richard Amesbury’s claim is that criticism of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies is racist. Which is […]
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It’s no secret that student literacy is declining. SAT reading scores of Ivy League admits are consistently lower than their SAT math scores, with students from Brown, Columbia, Penn, and Harvard scoring 40 points lower on reading comprehension than on math. Similarly, the National Center for Education Statistics has reported a consistent decline in both […]
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