Daren Bakst and Marlo Lewis have edited a series of science policy recommendations for reforming the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that literally put the irreproducibility crisis of modern science first. In the first chapter of Modernizing the EPA, Marlo Lewis argues that the EPA’s policy mistakes derive from permitting and fostering practices associated with the […]
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There is much discussion these days about the need for “regime change” in certain countries. I don’t generally like the phrase because it can be misunderstood. It implies that a legitimate administration is in charge of a country or institution, and that illegitimate methods will displace it. Much of the world, however, actually needs regime […]
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Yesterday, two nonprofits, Fair for All and Join Our America, filed a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, alleging the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) violated Title VI and the First Amendment. On May 21st, 2025, the Our America Foundation reached out to the University […]
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It is undeniable that universities across America have resisted the burgeoning trend of artificial intelligence (AI). The mere thought of unbridled access to resources like ChatGPT, which makes academic dishonesty difficult to detect, has produced tremors of resistance in professors and administrators alike. It seems that just over the last year, the boundaries of AI […]
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President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law on July 4th. This law is the most consequential legislation affecting higher education for the past couple of decades. Like any legislation, it was a product of compromise, but overall, as I predict, it will move higher education and the country in the right […]
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While most media focused on escalating global tensions, American higher education may have just experienced its biggest shakeup in decades. Last week in Boca Raton, Florida, six public university systems unveiled the Commission for Public Higher Education (CPHE), a new accreditor designed to serve public universities with a focus on academic excellence, student outcomes, and […]
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University systems in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas are launching a new accreditor, dubbed the Commission for Public Higher Education. Why are accreditors important? Accreditors are semi-private organizations that function as gatekeepers for federal financial aid. Only students at colleges that have accreditor approval can receive Pell Grants, student loans, and […]
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In a sweeping move that could reshape job training opportunities for young Americans, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced on May 29 an immediate halt to operations at all contractor-run Job Corps centers nationwide. All closures were said to be finalized by June 30, but the administration is facing legal pushback. The decision to close […]
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Editor’s Note: This op-ed is a response from a Cornell alumnus, bewildered by the university’s recent race-based hiring practices, exposed in the America First Policy Institute’s legal filing and Christopher Rufo’s City Journalarticle, “Cornell Hired Based on Race, Internal Documents Show.” Perhaps Cornell’s sprawling “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) bureaucracy and senior administrators didn’t intend […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on Sutherland Institute on July 02, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. In his recent piece in Education Next, my American Enterprise Institute (AEI) colleague Frederick Hess offers a crucial corrective to the prevailing winds in civic education. He calls […]
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For years, it has been common knowledge that a humanities degree will screw you over. Compare, for instance, the median earnings of a Computer Science (CS) major from five years after graduating from Columbia University ($204,000) to that of an English major graduating from the same school ($74,000). Enrollment statistics paint a similar picture, with […]
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On July 6, 1775, the Continental Congress issued a declaration—not of independence, but of necessity. With British troops already marching and colonial blood already spilled, Congress laid out its reasons for taking up arms. The declaration’s title was as direct as its purpose: A Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms. It […]
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One might think that if Concord and Lexington left room for doubt that the American colonies were rebelling against Britain, the June 17 affair at Bunker Hill would have settled the question. American farmers inflicting more than a thousand casualties on Britain’s troops was a pretty strong signal of discontent. Moreover, the decision of the […]
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Arcata is a small town lying behind the Redwood Curtain of Northern California, about two hundred and fifty miles north of San Francisco. It was a place where diversity already existed, yet nobody had to talk about it. Much of this diversity was due to the location of Humboldt State University, a four-year state school […]
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In a recent article, I described how Arizona State University (ASU) refused to investigate plagiarism by its administrator, Sethuraman Panchanathan, while he was serving as director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Panchanathan later resigned unexpectedly and returned to ASU—just in time for the university to sue the NSF to preserve its high rate of […]
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More than two years after Lia Thomas became the first male athlete to win an NCAA all-women’s swimming title, the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) has officially admitted its faults and will strip Thomas—born William Thomas—of those titles, return accolades to the rightful female athletes, and issue a public apology. UPenn reached a resolution agreement with […]
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Two hundred forty-nine years ago, a determined band of colonists didn’t just declare independence—they dismantled the old world order. They rejected the centuries-old belief that power comes from bloodlines, conquest, or divine right, and proposed something audacious: that legitimacy flows from the governed, not the governor. That moment was not merely the birth of America—it […]
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The joy of learning to build something useful, of unearthing what no one has seen before, of understanding what was once obscure or even a mystery, of finally putting the data together, of creating something new are intellectual and spiritual joys. The satisfaction of disciplining yourself to effectuate a goal, of working with a team, […]
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George Washington took command of the Continental Army outside Boston on July 3, 1775. He immediately spent a solid week inspecting the army, and only then wrote to the Continental Congress with his first report. The Continental Army was brave, but it could be made better. Above all, Washington needed money. I find myself already […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on July 03, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Top medical schools are enforcing beliefs such as “weight inclusivity,” racial justice, and gender ideology on their staff and students through “policies, forced statements, and curricular […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on RealClear Education on July 02, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Harvard Government Department professors Ryan Enos and Steven Levitsky recently warned in the Harvard Crimson that if Harvard negotiates with the Trump administration to restore frozen federal research funding, […]
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In Episode 9 of The Week in Science, Director of Science Programs at the National Association of Scholars (NAS) Scott Turner takes us on a tour of scientific upheaval—political, bureaucratic, and biological. We begin with the five stages of grief—not for people, but for scientists, who are still grappling with the Trump administration’s supposed war […]
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We couldn’t find the exit to the parking structure. We were also afraid to arrive late to a conference on Exodus 2. I spotted a young woman who appeared to be a student. She was more than helpful in leading us out of the parking structure. On the way, I asked her what her major […]
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What is the West? Stepping onto most college campuses today, it is something to be reviled rather than defined. The Italian scholastic Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274 AD) is often most credited with arguing for a harmony of human reason and divine revelation as leading to truth, and the use of reason in approaching divine texts. Revelation […]
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In a landmark decision, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has reached an agreement with the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) requiring the removal of trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas’s records from the women’s category. The university must also restore records to the female athletes displaced by Thomas, issue a formal apology to those affected by […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on July 02, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. When I signed up for Professor Michael Whitehawk’s sociology class at Texas State University (TXST), I hoped it would challenge me to look at society in […]
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“Nice university you got here. Be a shame if anything happened to it.” That brutish gangster threat is the “diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hustle in its most succinct form. It captures the protection racket that has plagued American higher education for the past five years, certainly since the hot, violent summer of 2020 coerced […]
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Editor’s Note: A version of this article was originally published on the author’s Substack on June 6, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. A new era is here. With ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok now widely available, artificial intelligence (AI) tools are starting to reshape how […]
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The question “What is a woman?” has become one of the most contentious debates in modern politics and culture. From transwomen winning women’s college championships in hurdles and swimming or being admitted into sororities, to conservative commentator Matt Walsh’s documentary What Is a Woman?, to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s now-famous statement during […]
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