2,105 vs. 44. As of April 25, 2025, 2,105 accredited universities and colleges in the U.S. are test-optional or test-free in their undergraduate admissions, while a paltry 19 private and 35 public colleges require SAT or ACT scores for admission. An astounding ratio of 48 to one! With the exception of a few high-profile cases—MIT, […]
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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. Scott Galloway, the […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by RealClear Politics on April 26, 2025. It has been edited to match MTC’s style guidelines and is crossposted here with permission. Many Americans of Generation X and older will recall the red, white, and blue American Freedom Train that was a centerpiece of America’s glorious Bicentennial celebration. But few know that the […]
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My colleague at Minding the Campus, Jared Gould, has written persuasively on the problem of colleges and universities over-admitting foreign students, who can fill seats that should have gone to American students, drive up costs for everyone, and ultimately take jobs from American workers. In my view, however, a more pressing issue—although one that is […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the National Association of Scholars on April 30, 2025. It is crossposted here with permission. Much will be written in the coming days about David Horowitz, who passed away on April 29 at age 86. He will be rightly celebrated as a champion of truth-telling during a long […]
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The American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation have released a new booklet of advice for university trustees. My short contribution focuses on how trustees can reduce university spending and personnel and offers nine recommendations which I summarize below. Recommendation #1: Have a Specific and Measurable Goal A clear, specific, and measurable goal is […]
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Following a cycle more irregular than the U.S. Presidential elections, but perhaps meriting equal attention for American Jews, the 2025 World Zionist Congress Election has arrived. In a development that some are calling “the surge,” the number of slates competing in the 39th elections has increased by 69 percent compared to the 2020 elections, driven […]
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For those of you who have been following my publication trail with Minding the Campus, you are likely familiar with my frequent discussions on scientific ethics. I have commented on research misconduct, peer review fraud, and the reproducibility crisis, examining the effect of careless behavior and intentional fabrication in the scientific world and their profound […]
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A Chinese student at the University of Minnesota (UMN) was expelled for allegedly using artificial intelligence (AI) on a test in 2024. The student is suing UMN officials for violating his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process. The test in question was a preliminary doctoral exam in UMN’s School of Public Health. UMN’s disciplinary Hearing […]
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Anyone intimately familiar with U.S. education research of the past half century recognizes its marked difference from that of other fields. Some attribute the difference to an inferiority of methods, implying that education professors are not quite as bright as, say, economists. I would argue, instead, that bias is, by far, a greater problem—that bias […]
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With the largely unregulated release of both domestic and foreign-based artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the United States, corporations, businesses, and governmental institutions are seeking sustainable policy solutions to address disruptions to their normal organizational operations. American higher education institutions, as corporations tasked with maintaining institutional solvency and delivering rigorous educational programs, are also facing […]
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The rules were very clear. No recordings of any kind were permitted. There would not be a traditional Q&A; rather, participants could scan two QR codes, one for the first half of the day and one for the second half, which would lead participants to a page where they could submit questions for review. Alireza […]
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In its infinite wisdom, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has decreed that individuals with “severe intellectual disability” can now attend all state colleges and universities, including UMass Amherst: Under the new law, young people aged 22 and older with intellectual disabilities can participate in higher education opportunities without being matriculated or degree-seeking students and without having […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was updated to reflect the current name of the University of Maryland Global Campus, replacing its former name, University of Maryland, University College. An extraordinary number of public state universities now admit a majority of their students from out of state. At the University of Vermont, the number is 75 percent. […]
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Scarcely a week goes by lately without news that another university has had federal funding restricted by the Trump administration. The Wall Street Journal recounts that latest restrictions: “Harvard ($2.26 billion), Cornell ($1 billion), Northwestern ($790 million), Brown ($510 million), Columbia ($400 million), Princeton ($210 million) and the University of Pennsylvania ($175 million).” These actions […]
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The University of Oklahoma offers a Social Justice Minor, which “introduce[s] students to the complexities of structural inequalities and injustices while teaching students critical thought processes.” Arizona State University offers an MA in Social Justice and Human Rights that prepares students to understand “how social justice and human rights issues are defined by multiple and […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on April 24, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. For at least the 11th year in a row, the federally funded Truman Scholarships overwhelmingly went to left-leaning students, a College Fix analysis found. Among this year’s winners, announced late last […]
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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. The saga over […]
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The New York Times article, “Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard: An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization,” tells a very different story than its title and subhead, one which suggests that Harvard’s arrogance might be leading […]
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Tsinghua University in Beijing is China’s top university and is often considered the top university in Asia. It is also a key instrument of the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign influence efforts and has played a key role in advancing China’s influence at American colleges and universities. Its influence is felt in many areas but none […]
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