Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by RealClear Education on June 16, 2025. It has been edited to match MTC’s style guidelines and is crossposted here with permission. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will soon sign a bill that will empower the appointed governing boards of Texas public universities with greater oversight of the institutions under their charge. This comes at […]
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June 17, 1775, was considered for generations of Americans after the date an “ignominious defeat.” The colonists had executed a brilliant stealth maneuver. Overnight, they had erected fortifications on a hill across the Charles River from Boston and had taken the British forces under Generals Gage and Howe by surprise. A battle ensued; in the […]
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[B]y its very existence, [mathematics] poses a serious threat to their entire world view that there is no such thing as objective truth and what they have to say on any subject is just as valid as what anyone else says. Imagine a baseball field with a ball resting on the ground. Two teams come […]
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As a history PhD, I’m used to hearing that I should have studied STEM (science, technology, engineering, or math) instead. We humanities graduates often retort that our skills are underappreciated, but our arguments ring hollow in the face of a difficult job market. Facing this reality, ambitious students rapidly abandoned arts majors throughout the 2000s, […]
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“Anyone who looks through enough statistics will eventually find numbers that seem to confirm a given vision.” — Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed In the ideological universe of moralistic warriors fighting against injustices operating on group characteristics, disparity always means discrimination, while correlation is definitely causation. The propensity for confirmation biases is so […]
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On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress took its first bold step toward becoming a nation: it created a national army. Until then, each colony had relied on its own militia. But after the violent clashes at Lexington and Concord, it was clear that isolated efforts wouldn’t be enough. A unified defense would require […]
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Congratulations to the Ohio Senate for restoring a large measure of reason in the treatment of online program managers (OPMs) in the latest version of legislation. OPMs are a huge benefit to public and private colleges because they help colleges innovate and reach students anywhere in the world at a low cost. They should be treated […]
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The 2025 Republican-led bill HB 0793 permits Tennessee public schools to deny enrollment to, or charge tuition for, students who cannot establish their legal immigration status. Proponents of the bill cite the need to protect the state’s fiscal interests as its main justification, while critics argue that it would violate federal law regarding undocumented students, […]
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Author’s Note: July 2025 will mark the centenary of the famous Tennessee “Scopes Monkey Trial.” This is the second article in a series leading up to the centennial events in Dayton, Tennessee, the site of the trial. Read the first in the series here. A century ago, the world’s greatest three-ring circus was about to […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on March 24, 2025. The Observatory translated it from French into English. I have edited it, to the best of my ability, to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. It is crossposted here with permission. We are not campaigning for […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on May 2, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Zack De Piero, a professor suing Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) for alleged racial discrimination, plans to appeal after a district court granted […]
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In Episode 6 of The Week in Science, host Scott Turner, Director of Science Programs at the National Association of Scholars, explores a trio of fascinating topics. Science magazine decries “massive cuts” to the National Science Foundation (NSF) budget, slashing it from $9 billion to $3.9 billion—a 57 percent reduction. The chance of a research […]
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Author’s Note: This article is from my weekly “Top of Mind” email, sent to subscribers every Thursday. For more content like this and to receive the full newsletter each week, enter your name and email under “SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ‘TOP OF MIND,’” located on the right-hand side of the site. Commentators have been […]
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College students are getting creative—not with their ideas, but with how they hide the fact that they’re using artificial intelligence (AI) to do their work. In an era where AI tools like ChatGPT have become second nature in higher education, students are now taking steps to de-optimize their essays. They’re deliberately adding typos, oversimplifying language, […]
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) shuttered its “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) office, eliminated diversity statements from faculty job applications, and cut its Vice President of Equity and Inclusion position. A promising step, but don’t be fooled—DEI persists at MIT. It hasn’t been rebranded; it’s still openly embedded. Interdepartmental committees thrive, and numerous administrative […]
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When Dwight D. Eisenhower stepped down from his generalship as the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe following the Second World War, he became the President of Columbia University. During his short tenure at the university, a professor approached him and extolled the virtues of European scientists at the institution, to which Eisenhower queried, “They may […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on June 10, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Following the College Fix’s recent report of a doctoral student’s drag show recital mocking the Catholic Mass at the University of Nebraska, an advocacy group sent […]
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Note: July 2025 will mark the centenary of the famous Tennessee “Scopes Monkey Trial.” This article is part of a series leading up to the centennial events in Dayton, Tennessee, the site of the trial. In the summer of 1925, the town luminaries of Dayton, Tennessee, summoned John T. Scopes from his tennis game to […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on Free Black Thought on May 26, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. What follows is an excerpt on “race” and “race pride” from a speech that Frederick Douglass delivered before a large crowd on September 3, […]
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In Boston’s Beacon Hill, there are gas lamps that appear to be quaint vestiges of the city’s Victorian past. Harvard, located three miles away, is giving the district a run for its money when it comes to gas lighting. Look no further than Harvard’s honorary degree recipient, Elaine Kim from the University of California, Berkeley, […]
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