Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the College Fix on January 31, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. Professor Ibram Kendi and Boston University will shut down the Center for Antiracist Research on June 30 as the “antiracism” proponent moves to Howard University. Kendi will start a similar […]
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Aaron Sibarium at the Washington Free Beacon reports that Michigan State University (MSU) has swept aside charges that the dean of its College of Education, Jerlando Jackson, is a serial plagiarist. MSU’s actions appear to fall short of a formal exoneration, but the university’s student newspaper, State News, quotes a letter from the MSU president, […]
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The “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) ideology that has captured professors and administrators at most American universities has generated considerable discussion. But relatively untouched is the embrace of DEI by college and university librarians—and its implications. DEI ideologues’ quiet infiltration of university libraries distorts the literature that faculty and students read. This subtle and slow-acting […]
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Editor’s Note: The following piece builds on the reflections of civilizational decline outlined in Peter Wood’s “Death Wish,” in which he argues that Western civilization is in decline, primarily due to internal cultural decay. Various signs of this decay include moral confusion, widespread violence, lawlessness, and the erosion of traditional values. According to Wood, the […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the College Fix on January 29, 2025. It is cross-posted here with permission. Dear Cornell Alumni, While Cornell University declared 2024 as its Celebration Year for Free Speech, 2024 was also the year that the Cornell Administration planned the complete muzzling of all debate about university policies in its Alumni Trustee […]
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Cornell University’s rules for trustee elections include a startling provision: candidates are prohibited from campaigning. This isn’t a narrow restriction on certain campaign activities. It’s a comprehensive ban on virtually all communication about one’s candidacy. These restrictions seem particularly out of place at an institution that declared 2023-24 its “Year of Free Expression.” The disconnect between […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on January 29, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Like many readers of this site, I pay a lot of attention to stories about the latest outrages on our college campuses. All […]
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Racially Discriminatory Admissions Prohibited When the Supreme Court in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, 600 U. S. 181 (2023) (“Harvard”), declared the use of racial preferences in the admissions programs of Harvard and the University of North Carolina unconstitutional, colleges and universities, which were not parties to the […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on March 22, 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. “Why is it written like that?” All teachers know that children ask […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by RealClear Education on January 27, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. America needs new science standards. That’s why the National Association of Scholars and Freedom in Education published The Franklin Standards: Model K-12 State Science Standards. These standards are […]
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While administrators and professors are aware of the importance of academic freedom for students studying in the United States from abroad, equally important, yet less often discussed, is the issue of the consequences of controversial research conducted in American higher education institutions by undergraduate international students when they return to their home countries. As a […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on December 18, 2024. It was translated into English by the Observatory before being edited to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. It is crossposted here with permission. What is the purpose of “gender studies”? Reading its followers, […]
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As we await the anticipated rollout of formal orders from the new Commander-in-Chief to end DoD’s divisive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies,[1] active-duty military personnel and veterans of all races across the Nation are welcoming the promised return to individual meritocratic standards that will no longer consider one’s race, color, creed or national origin. […]
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Many, if not most, students attend university intending to enter the workforce upon graduation. But today’s climate of student-centered policies and social justice rhetoric often does the opposite. While much attention has been given to the harms of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) initiatives, the rapid expansion of academic accommodations remains underexamined. Originally intended to […]
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The flurry of activity out of the Trump Administration is getting most of the news commentary these days, but much of higher education is still largely under partial control by state government authorities. Some attention has been on big states like Florida and Texas that have created new research centers not controlled by the woke-academic […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Docement Productions on January 10. 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Can Western civilization survive? One wonders. It is mostly the small things that fuel the disquiet. An illegal immigrant sets a woman on the F train […]
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I’ve been a donor to FIRE since 2007, but I’m no longer convinced by its diagnosis or treatment plan for the dire illness afflicting U.S. higher education. The diagnosis attributes the malady to (1) overprotective parenting and (2) teenage addiction to smartphones and social media, which have produced a generation of anxious, depressed, and fragile […]
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The NCAA transfer portal, originally intended to provide athletes with greater freedom, has evolved into a chaotic free agency system with significant consequences for academics and team dynamics. While the portal empowers athletes to escape unfavorable situations or seek better opportunities, it often undermines their educational progress. Many student-athletes struggle with credit transfers, delayed graduations, […]
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America’s legacy elite colleges continue to lose reputation in the public eye. Today’s example is Sarah Lawrence College, where intolerance for heterodoxy is part of the culture. Fortunately, civil rights have been vindicated, if only in a small way, at the college. The story begins in October 2018, when professor Samuel Abrams described the college […]
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