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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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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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of an article originally published by The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on October 3, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. After the most recent outbreak of campus anti-Semitism in America, the Israel Association of University Heads issued […]
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On July 29, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT—a generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot—launched a new feature called “study mode” for the platform. Specifically geared towards students, study mode offers a guided learning experience that helps users work through problems step by step, rather than simply providing direct answers. The company acknowledged ChatGPT’s widespread use among […]
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Editor’s Note: This is a follow-up to an earlier article, “The Politics of an Anti-Woke Campus Op-Ed.” I previously wrote about the vitriolically partisan reaction to an open letter to the University of Virginia’s (UVA) interim president that I published in the campus newspaper, the Cavalier Daily. One of the points I made—but far from […]
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With drastic improvements, the 2026–27 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) was launched ahead of the October 1 deadline—marking the earliest rollout in the program’s history. U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon contrasted the milestone with the Biden-Harris administration’s botched launch two years ago, when technical failures delayed aid processing for millions of students. […]
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British universities aren’t just teaching—they’re a pipeline, a gateway for hundreds of thousands to turn a student visa into permanent residency. That’s what Alp Mehmet revealed in the Spectator: over half a million foreigners have stayed in Britain via the student visa route since 2022. In 2023 alone, nearly half of all new visas went […]
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Editor’s Note: This response was submitted in early September 2025 in response to Jared Gould’s Top of Mind column, “If You Want Young Adults to Grow Up, Don’t Bar Them from Serious Work,” published December 5, 2024. Well, I am back from Gotham [Manhattan]. We walked through Hudson Yards on our way to Moynihan Station, […]
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The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) recently published an essay in its flagship magazine, Academe, titled “Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity.” Written by Lisa Siraganian, the J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities and professor at Johns Hopkins University, the piece makes a sweeping and unsettling claim: that efforts to foster intellectual diversity on […]
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The presence of artificial intelligence (AI) on college campuses is a foregone conclusion—a recent report found that 93 percent of students use it regularly for coursework. By this point, it is no longer a question of whether AI tools will be used on college campuses, but instead, how they will be used. Back in July, […]
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As universities attempt to rebrand their “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programs and offices, many have embraced the term “inclusive excellence,” promoting it as a strategy to recognize and cultivate both individual and institutional success. Inclusive excellence is framed as a method that values multiple perspectives to enhance overall performance. But in practice, it is […]
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For my entire adult life, I can’t recall an initiative to collect data to combat racial discrimination that has not been met with enthusiastic support. But then President Trump announced that colleges would have to submit more of their admissions data to combat racial discrimination, and things got weird. To understand the context here, recall […]
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International students have long been a lifeline for universities; one could even argue that they are a cash cow. They bring global perspectives, help fill enrollment gaps, and—very importantly—pay tuition at higher levels that subsidize the tuition of domestic students. For decades, countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia competed […]
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