Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the City Journal on January 28, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. At a June 2024 teacher workshop put together by the African Studies Association Outreach Council, which “promotes the teaching of Africa in K-16 classrooms,” one presenter told attendees that […]
Read MoreAs the Trump administration battles to secure the southern border and undo Biden’s reckless dereliction of duty—which allowed 10 million illegal migrants into the country—colleges and universities are doing everything they can to make immigration enforcement a nightmare. Instead of helping address this crisis, they’re actively obstructing federal agents, blatantly disregarding the rule of law […]
Read More“Do you help with the passion project?” Every so often, I’ll hop on a sales call with an inbound client at my college consulting company, Invictus Prep. Nervous parents, many of them immigrants and newcomers to the American college admissions process, will come prepared with a score of questions about how we propose to help […]
Read MoreAmerica survived those crucial months because we had self-government as well as liberty. The Second Massachusetts Provincial Congress assembled on February 1, 1775. The Second Congress would select Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Hancock, Thomas Cushing, and Robert Treat Paine to serve as delegates to the Continental Congress. It authorized a Committee of Safety—among other […]
Read MoreEditor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from an article originally published by The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on January 31, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Higher education seemingly played an important, if largely negative, role in the recent presidential election. Exit polls showed […]
Read MoreUsage of artificial intelligence (AI) models is rapidly spreading in education. Students use them to help with their coursework, and teachers and faculty use them to help with lesson plans and research. To the extent that these models can act as a tutor for students or an assistant for teachers and faculty, they can be […]
Read MoreEditor’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 […]
Read MoreAaron 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, […]
Read MoreThe “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 […]
Read MoreEditor’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 […]
Read MoreEditor’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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Read MoreCornell 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 […]
Read MoreEditor’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 […]
Read MoreRacially 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 […]
Read MoreEditor’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 […]
Read MoreEditor’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 […]
Read MoreWhile 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 […]
Read MoreEditor’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, […]
Read MoreAs 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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