Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the National Association of Scholars on October 28, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. On October 1, the Trump administration sent a letter to nine American universities offering a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” […]
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In a few days, hordes of witches, ghosts, walking skeletons, and other assorted monsters will descend upon my suburban cul-de-sac. None of them frightens me very much, with the possible exception of the overweight 45-year-old dude in the Spider-Man costume. No, as a long-time college professor, I’m most afraid these days of three things: bad robots, the abyss, and […]
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Halloween is when restless ghosts of the past return, and with the holiday approaching, it’s a fitting moment to resurrect the story of Middlebury College’s (Middlebury) renaming of Mead Memorial Chapel. On April 9, 2025, Judge Robert A. Mello of the Addison Unit of the Vermont Superior Court ruled in the college’s favor, dismissing all […]
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