Higher education accreditation is an arcane but vitally important target for reform in the new administration. Accreditation is used to ensure colleges meet a minimal level of quality—colleges without an accreditor approval do not have access to federal financial aid programs like Pell Grants and student loans. But accreditation is broken. As I lay out […]
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Barnard College was finally showing signs of responsible leadership when it expelled two students for participating in an egregious, anti-Semitic disruption of a class on modern Israel at Columbia earlier this semester. But after almost two years of anti-Semitic chaos on campus, the college’s leaders have evidently still not learned their lesson. When protesters who were […]
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It is immensely encouraging to see state legislatures proposing and, in some cases, passing bills that would end “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) indoctrination in public colleges and universities. DEI programs are widespread in higher education, and they do profound harm to students, faculty, and the quality of education. Getting rid of them, however, is […]
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Initially enacted in 1972 to prohibit sex-based discrimination in federally funded educational institutions, Title IX aimed to ensure women’s equal participation in academia. But in the last few decades, each U.S. president has attempted to make amendments to the law. In 2011, the Obama administration broadened its scope to include sexual harassment and assault, mandating […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on March 6, 2024. It was translated from French into English by the Observatory and subsequently edited to conform to Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. It is crossposted here with permission. While the acronym “INSPE” is not explicitly defined, it […]
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On Feb. 5, U.S. Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH), in collaboration with Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), introduced the Higher Education Accountability Tax (HEAT) Act, H.R. 1006. By amending the Internal Revenue Code, the bill seeks to hold private colleges and universities accountable for their role in the student debt crisis by increasing taxes on their investment […]
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During the Civil War, Democrats attempted to use cotton and private shipping companies to undermine American security and gain support in Europe for the Confederacy. Today, the blue state of California is leveraging Berkeley to build ties with China and undermine America’s qualitative advantages in dual-use technology and to undermine energy independence. On the West […]
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Earlier this month, Vice President JD Vance delivered a blistering speech to Europeans that questioned whether the other half of the West adheres to a commitment to free speech or is embracing censorship and a suicidal embrace of mass migration. In Europe, these issues have been at the forefront of the leadup to Germany’s election. […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on March 18, 2022. It was translated into English from French by the Observatory before being edited to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. It is crossposted here with permission. The French language is continually evolving and adapting; that’s a fact. […]
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Editor’s Note: This is the second of two essays titled “An Extra Credit Assignment Inspires Reflection on Study Habits.” You can read the first one here. An essay I wrote, “Incoming college STEM freshmen, take note: You need to take your classes seriously,” was published as a special to the USA TODAY Network and in two South […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published on the author’s Substack Diogenes in Exile on September 30, 2024. With edits to fit MTC’s style, it is crossposted here with permission. Multicultural counseling sells itself as an inclusive space where all are welcomed, but the reality is quite different. Today’s counseling students are being stripped […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the College Fix on February 26, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. The National Endowment for the Humanities granted $247,000 to Central Washington University (CWU) to “digitally capture” the stories of transgender Americans over the age of 50. The federal grant will […]
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When you graduate and get your first job, seeing the money rolling into your bank account feels momentous. After years of scrimping and saving, you finally have a positive bank balance to spend on something other than your tuition fees, rent, groceries, or nights out. While graduating is a big milestone and can feel like […]
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When misconduct strikes in scientific research, it triggers a domino effect of ruined reputations, compromised integrity, and shattered public trust in science. But when it happens in medical practice, the consequences are far graver: real human pain, suffering, and death. In the summer of 2024, Beverly and William Bryan would arrive in Florida together to […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by RealClearInvestigations on February 19, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. In the plummy world of alumni relations, where distinguished graduates are awarded honorary degrees and major donors are fêted at the president’s mansion, it is virtually unheard of for former students to […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published PJ Media on February 7, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. No, the Red-Green coalition is not a political alliance between members of the Republican Party and the environmental catastrophists of the Green Party. Republicans do not accept that […]
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It has been over a month since the second Trump administration took office, and clearly the president is serious about reducing spending. DEI programs have been discontinued, and many grants to non-government organizations have been halted. Thousands of government employees have been laid off. One target of the cutbacks has been grants for scientific research. […]
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The racial and gender ideologues who infiltrated and, at times, overtook American university life in the second and third decades of this century are rightly being criticized for distracting our institutions from their core mission of advancing knowledge. As a result, “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) is now in full retreat. But the Andrew W. […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of an article originally published on the author’s Substack Diogenes In Exile on January 20, 2025. With edits to fit MTC’s style, it is crossposted here with permission. The political stage is set. State and federal congresses are back in session, and a new presidential term begins. But […]
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We definitely need to rein it in, and a stem-to-stern housecleaning definitely is in order, but the Department of Education (ED) is a necessary evil that we need to keep for three reasons. First, the department generates a lot of valuable statistics, such as the annual National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Often called “the […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on January 2, 2023. It was translated into English from French by the Observatory before being edited to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. It is crossposted here with permission. The phenomenon known as “woke” or “wokism” is international: initially developed […]
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President Trump’s ban on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programs in the federal government and his firing of the boards of visitors of the four military service academies suggest receptivity to broad reforms of Department of Defense (DoD) educational institutions that could eventually benefit American colleges and universities generally. These reforms should include limits on […]
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Described as a man who “always projected ‘moral and ethical rectitude,’” esteemed mid-1800s glacial geologist Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin once made a profound statement at the 1888 University of Michigan Annual Commencement: “Falsity in intellectual action is intellectual immorality.” This statement appears to ring ever truer when one considers recent trends in 21st-century science. Before diving […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the Times of Israel on February 18, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. “It is time to escalate for Palestine,” wrote Bowdoin College’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). In early February, 50 SJP students occupied Bowdoin’s Smith Union, the […]
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For the past month, I have been wrestling with questions that have yet to yield clear and satisfactory answers. For one, should an academic degree be considered a prerequisite for gainful employment? And is the labor market destined to rely exclusively—if at all—on academia as its primary job-training mechanism? Though not easily resolvable, these questions […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the College Fix on February 24, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. Princeton University students can learn about “Investigative Theater for a Changing Climate” this spring. Students will create “an original work of theater” by “pursuing a creative inquiry into some aspect […]
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In his monumental work Culture and Anarchy, 19th-century poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold laid out a novel curriculum that would revolutionize educational spaces in the coming century. Based on the Ancient Greek system of classical education, Arnold’s ambitious scheme envisioned the university as the center of cultural education—the cornerstone for understanding ourselves and the […]
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From 1636, when Harvard was founded, to about 2010, college enrollments in America tended to rise constantly, with minor disruptions, reflecting increased demand for higher education largely arising from population and economic growth. At the beginning of the American Revolution, fewer than one of every 2,500 colonial Americans attended college. By 2010, the proportion of […]
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Whether you believe Donald Trump is a victim of lawfare or fear that his appointees will engage in it, one thing is clear: Americans are losing faith in our institutions to deliver justice, and for good reason. Law is no longer just a tool for ensuring fairness; it has become a weapon for those in […]
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