Support for Fabrice Balanche
…to the best of my ability, to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. It is crossposted here with permission. Last April, Fabrice Balanche, a lecturer and research director in…
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What Good Are the Liberal Arts? Ask a Scientist.
…you’re majoring in liberal arts? So, what are you going to do with that? You know there’s no money in that, right?” Managing editor of Minding the Campus (MTC), Jared…
Black Michigan State U. Students Demand ‘No Hate Ordinance’
…with permission. “Hate speech” and other conduct should be further policed by Michigan State University (MSU), according to the campus Black Student Alliance. The activist group wants a “No Hate…
Are Identity-Based Scholarships Illegal?
…own campus. The University of Maryland had been segregated, and the campus tried to compensate by offering some scholarships only to Black students. In 1994, a unanimous Fourth Circuit Court…
To Rescue Science, Phase Out Research Grants
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the soon-to-be-published National Association of Scholars report, Rescuing Science. It has been edited to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines and…
Uncovering Chinese Academic Espionage at Stanford
…a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agent impersonated a Stanford student. Under the alias Charles Chen, he approached several students through social media. Anna*, a Stanford student conducting sensitive research on…
UMN Expels Student for AI Use, Yet Faculty Practices Go Unchecked
…student on trial for violating the Student Conduct Code’s prohibition of misconduct, defined to include “plagiarism” and “cheating.” The CCSB panel found the student guilty. UMN vice provost Scott Lanyon…
Professor AI: The Least-Bad Solution to Combating Campus Anti-Semitism
Higher education’s problem is more than a loss of confidence. Anti-Semitism on many college campuses is a visible symptom of far deeper problems. Anti-Semitism has been tied to the networked…
Divide-and-Conquer Is Trump’s Best Strategy Against Harvard
…do not set Harvard University’s policies with respect to its students, faculty and other employees, or conduct on its campus,’ Klibanski wrote. [RELATED: NAS Statement: Fighting Harvard and the Other…
Sneaking Anti-Semitism and DEI? University Libraries Host Fugitives
…to choose materials to add to university holdings, use similar standards to delete ideologically offensive materials—i.e., conservative material—from holdings, and conduct DEI-focused programs and general activities. An undoubtedly small measure…
Columbia’s Apology Faux Pas, Seen from France
…on a campus taken over by activists. Shafik did not achieve her goals and ended up resigning too in August when the campus was in the grip of new violence….
More On the NSF Director’s Copy-and-Paste Career
…not address: were the instances of uncited copying “plagiarism” or not? Instead, the report explained that Gay’s conduct “did not constitute research misconduct as defined by the FAS Research Misconduct…
Where Were You, Obama?
…in 2020 when the Chabad Center at the University of Delaware campus in Newark was burned down in an act of arson? Where were you in 2022 when Roland G….
22 Million Student Essays Show Signs of AI Generation, and Professors Aren’t Helping Curb the Trend
…phrase heard around campus. I distinctly remember peer-reviewing a classmate’s essay last year. The awkward vocabulary and disjointed paragraphs immediately revealed that it wasn’t his work. Though I kept my…
College-Aged Left-Wing Women Vote to Break Glass Ceilings—Not for Good Policy
…I have witnessed this firsthand on my college campus. Curious about the strong support for Kamala Harris, I spoke with several women who were enthusiastic about voting for her. Yet,…
Leadership Lessons from the Ivy League Clown Show
…institution. All those departures stemmed, directly or indirectly, from the presidents’ failures to address anti-Semitism on their campuses. The first domino to fall was Liz Magill at the University of…
The UC System Is Risking National Security with China—It Must Cut Ties
…problems of discrimination and bias.”[8] The four focus areas where the greatest risk presented themselves according to the UC ‘Expert’ Panel was in health, human resources, policing, and campus safety—which…
A Jewish Professor Claims Trump’s Fight Against Anti-Semitism is Insincere—But Leaves Out Key Facts to Make His Case
…and investigations into SLC present are the real threats to Jewish students. He writes: My students … are unified in doubting the Trump administration’s commitment to genuinely fighting campus antisemitism….
Let’s Restore Integrity to 21st-Century Science
…for Decades] Research Misconduct The reports of research misconduct are, unfortunately, nothing new and have been rising at alarming rates. The University of California San Diego noted that 2023 was…
At Universities, Justice Is Anything But Blind
…undesirable faculty. As a survivor of such lawfare, I saw these tactics firsthand. In 2021, I filed a First Amendment suit against Kern Community College District (KCCD) administrators. The district…
Sarah Lawrence’s Hollow Promises—’Inclusion’ Excludes Jews
…inclusion were more than empty rhetoric, it would be working to resolve the serious problems on campus—not allowing its campus to remain hostile to Jewish students. I don’t blame this…
Oversight Still Fails—NSF Director’s Alleged Plagiarism Still Not Investigated
…to investigate the misconduct of NSF’s director. NIH and NSF each have an “inspector general” whose job is to ensure that public funds are not misused to support research misconduct.…
A Budget and Business Forecast
…has formed a committee to conduct a “comprehensive review” of the state’s education system. Including “looking at how the institutions spend state dollars and what they’re doing for Iowa’s workforce…
2025: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
…American Archaeology—another organization that has canceled one of my talks —the 2025 meeting is linked to a lengthy “meeting safety policy and event code of conduct” page that includes forbidding…
Sedition U: Marxist Ideology Threatens American Democracy from Campus to Culture
…reportedly “mostly peaceful”—demonstrations against Israel’s conduct in its war against Hamas, as described in deceptively sympathetic press accounts. Exuberant campus rhetoric often extends to advocacy of violence against Jews generally….
When Speaking Truth to Power Becomes a Punishable Offense
…their teaching, research, academic speeches and other off-campus talks; 27 percent felt unable to speak freely; 40 percent were concerned about reputational damages for being misunderstood; 23 percent worried about…
North Carolinians and Allies Fight the Politicization and Racialization of Education
…of the U.S. There is a large gap between the NC legislature on the one hand and the central administrations and faculty senates of different NC university campuses on the…
Race-Based Hiring Programs Persist at Public Universities. Here’s How.
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the Washington Free Beacon on November 26, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with…
Sarah Lawrence Has Fallen
…email to the campus community on November 22 all the more difficult to reconcile with reality. She wrote, “Today, campus operations are back to normal.” They were not—the encampment remained…
Pledging to Honor the Spirit of Free Inquiry
…intellectual climate on campus. Recent campus headlines concerning the behavior of protesters illustrate the utility of such a pledge. It is obviously not acceptable to forcibly occupy campus facilities, physically…