The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is a union and membership organization for faculty. Among its missions is to “define fundamental professional values and standards” in part as a defense against outside interference. They’ve failed that part of their mission. The AAUP has long been a typical left-wing organization—see the 2015 essay, “The AAUP […]
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The discussion board has become a default communication tool in online and hybrid courses, and even in many in-person classes. Many of these discussions follow a predictable formula: “Post once. Reply to two peers. Minimum 300 words. Replies must be substantial.” What once promised dialogue and reflection now more often promotes checkbox engagement. Why are we […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on August 12, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Columbia University has adopted a new definition of anti-Semitism as part of its recent agreement with President Donald Trump’s administration, a university news release states. However, […]
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The Sydney Sweeney American Eagle jean ad—surely you’ve seen it by now. “My jeans are blue,” she says, slipping effortlessly and seductively into a pair of blue jeans. Simple enough, right? Apparently not. The left erupted in outrage—because, apparently, using a double entendre that plays on “genes” and “jeans” in a jeans commercial is being […]
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Duke University’s School of Medicine is preparing to dock the salaries of tenured faculty who fail to bring in enough research grant money—a move that undermines one of academia’s most sacred job protections. Under the policy, basic science professors who fall short of “minimum expectations” for external funding could see their pay reduced to as […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the author’s Substack the Art of Science on August 10, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. On the bookshelf in my academic advisor’s office sits a beautiful burgundy cloth-bound book from the 1890s. With a finely textured […]
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Logic was once a cornerstone of education. Before the 20th century, students studied logic as a standalone subject—a rigorous discipline that honed their ability to reason, spot contradictions, and dissect arguments. In early America, logic held a prominent place in the curriculum. Northern colleges like Harvard prioritized it, with figures like Benjamin Franklin authoring logic […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on Sutherland Institute on August 8, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. You’re about to begin one of the most transformative experiences of your life: your collegiate journey. You’ve earned your seat through talent, persistence, discipline, and resilience. […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on RealClear Education on August 8, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. “I’m going to be in debt for my whole f—ing life. How does that even make sense? I signed up for this s— when I was […]
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They toil not, neither do they spin … Summer is the mischief in me—with its evenings steeped in honeyed indolence—and I wonder if I can put a notion in my readers’ heads, or at least a bit of a bias, in favor of idleness. Time was, defending idleness to academicians would have been like bringing […]
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This week, the Trump administration won an important victory in the legal campaign being mounted by universities over funding of scientific research. Part of the Trump administration’s agenda has been reorienting federal support of research toward new priorities, including artificial intelligence (AI), computing infrastructure, and military needs. On April 18th of this year, the National […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the American Spectator on August 4, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. A couple of weeks ago, Steve Moore and I revealed in this space that Census Bureau data shows that native-born Americans are fleeing high-tax states. But […]
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For more than six months, higher education leaders, most notably Ivy League presidents, have bemoaned what they view as threats to their very existence by the Trump Administration. Federal research grants have been reduced or even suspended. Students dependent on federal loans have been told that the terms of the loans are being tightened: for […]
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On Friday, August 1, a Federal District Court in New York gave Trump a win: Judge John P. Cronan allowed the President’s National Science Foundation Directive to remain in effect while being challenged in the court. The Directive terminates research grants for “things like misinformation and diversity, equity and inclusion,” among other subjects. Researchers were […]
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A recent report by Concerned Women for America (CWA) found that over 1,941 women and girls have had to settle for silver in favor of trans-identifying males in the U.S. Using data dating back to the 1980s, the conservative women’s organization found that biological males have competed in more than 10,000 women’s sports events, claimed […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the California Globe on August 4, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. In 1871, over five years after the establishment of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Ohio Republican Congressman Samuel Shellabarger introduced the KKK Act as “An Act to […]
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The latest Harvard Crimson Faculty of Arts and Sciences survey should be read not as a snapshot of opinion, but as a damning portrait of moral failure. For the second year in a row, most respondents to the survey said they did not observe “systemic antisemitism” at Harvard. In the wake of a year of […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on June 30, 2025. The Observatory translated it into English from French. 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. France has nearly three million students enrolled […]
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How far is too far at a university graduation? At my graduation from the University of Chicago Divinity School in May 2024, amidst a downpour of punishing proportions, pro-Palestinian students booed President Paul Alivisatos, engaged in call and response chants in the middle of speeches, and then, to my relief, walked out en masse. These […]
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