Do No Harm, founded by former Penn Medical School dean Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, has launched the Center for Accountability in Medicine (CAM). “Through data-driven research and public rankings, the Center empowers policy solutions grounded in evidence and equal opportunity – not ideology,” the website reads. Its newest initiative, the Medical School Excellence Index, ranks medical […]
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As universities attempt to rebrand their “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programs and offices, many have embraced the term “inclusive excellence,” promoting it as a strategy to recognize and cultivate both individual and institutional success. Inclusive excellence is framed as a method that values multiple perspectives to enhance overall performance. But in practice, it is […]
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Challenging the prevailing narrative and upholding one’s principles in higher education is often a solitary endeavor. Even tenured colleagues sympathetic to the challenger’s ideas may retreat, fearing only exclusion from the next faculty cocktail party. That is why I notice when someone shows courage, as Mathew Abraham did in 2019 when I faced attacks for […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the College Fix on September 09, 2025. It is crossposted here with permission. Grand Valley State University’s (GVSU) Frederik Meijer Honors College has shifted toward a “social justice” orientation in both its curriculum and admissions in an effort to increase racial diversity, according to emails recently obtained […]
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Join the National Association of Scholars on Monday, September 15, at 2:15 p.m. ET for what promises to be a lively discussion on anti-Semitism, violence, and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) in higher education. This webinar is hosted by NAS in anticipation of the upcoming NAS DEI Anti-Semitism Study. It will explore the possibility that […]
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Academia is best understood as a social institution that thrives on what the French-American polymath Rene Girard called mimetic desire. According to Girard, humans are born with biological drives that steer us towards what we need to survive and procreate; however, beyond subsistence, our desires are shaped by the culture and models around us. The […]
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On March 19th, 2025, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) released guidance affirming that “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) related discrimination is unlawful, citing the landmark U.S. Supreme Court opinion Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (SFFA) as authority and support. The guidance marked a […]
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Back in April, in a piece titled “The Horse, My Contributor, Is Dead,” I warned that we at Minding the Campus risked treading water by hammering the same points about “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), wokeness, and campus anti-Semitism. Those truths are vital—but endlessly repeating them without fresh angles or deeper reporting amounts to beating […]
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The non-regulatory guidance for Title IV, Part A, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 provides state and local educational agencies with information on the allowable use of federal funds. It is not legally binding, but it amounts to an unofficial endorsement by the Department of Education (ED)—no matter how much the agency […]
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The Trump administration’s efforts to roll back “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) on college and university campuses have gotten a lot of attention, and rightly so. There has also been significant pushback, with many institutions simply faking compliance by renaming their DEI departments while pursuing the same Marxist agenda. Still, I think conservatives can be […]
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On June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court decided Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, a case about judicial standards for determining whether employment discrimination occurred, which favored or disadvantaged persons of different genders. What implications, if any, does this unanimous decision have for the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) movement? DEI’s Momentum and Judicial Pushback Central […]
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Editor’s Note: This op-ed is a response from a Cornell alumnus, bewildered by the university’s recent race-based hiring practices, exposed in the America First Policy Institute’s legal filing and Christopher Rufo’s City Journalarticle, “Cornell Hired Based on Race, Internal Documents Show.” Perhaps Cornell’s sprawling “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) bureaucracy and senior administrators didn’t intend […]
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“Nice university you got here. Be a shame if anything happened to it.” That brutish gangster threat is the “diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hustle in its most succinct form. It captures the protection racket that has plagued American higher education for the past five years, certainly since the hot, violent summer of 2020 coerced […]
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“What Is Replacing DEI? Racism” is the title of a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Arizona State University professor Richard Amesbury. It is provocative, for sure, but also comes across as ignorant since racism is to many people a feature of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) itself. How can abolishing DEI […]
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The University of Virginia (UVA) is currently under investigation by the federal government because its administration is attempting to maintain its illegal “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) regime in secret after the Board of Visitors voted in March to dismantle it. The administration is also stonewalling the Board’s April resolution, which called for more viewpoint […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on May 2, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Zack De Piero, a professor suing Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) for alleged racial discrimination, plans to appeal after a district court granted […]
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) shuttered its “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) office, eliminated diversity statements from faculty job applications, and cut its Vice President of Equity and Inclusion position. A promising step, but don’t be fooled—DEI persists at MIT. It hasn’t been rebranded; it’s still openly embedded. Interdepartmental committees thrive, and numerous administrative […]
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The Texas House recently passed SB 37—a bill that would grant governor-appointed university regents unprecedented oversight of the curriculum and administration of public universities. The bill seeks to combat leftist indoctrination and ensure that educational standards align with “workforce demands.” Board Member of the National Association of Scholars, Adam Kissel, writes: SB 37 will make […]
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Our socialist friends are writhing in dismay over what they claim is the abrogation of their free speech rights. Exhibits A, B, C, and D: graduate students at Columbia—Yunseo Chung from South Korea, Mahmoud Khalil from Syria, and Ranjani Srinivasan from India—and at Tufts, Rumeysa Ozturk from Turkey. The school on Morningside Heights seems to […]
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In this first episode of our new podcast, VAS News Chat, I join Teresa Manning, Policy Director at the National Association of Scholars and President of its Virginia affiliate, for a deep dive into my recent article, “America’s Obsession with Diplomas Is Killing Opportunity,” in which I argue that credentials have become an illegitimate precondition […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from an article originally published by the Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press on May 21, 2025. It is crossposted here with permission. I received my Ph.D. and J.D. from the University of Virginia (UVA). I loved my time at UVA, but I’m concerned the university has become an institution of […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on March 11, 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. In a great burst of […]
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Amid growing global skepticism toward “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), Japanese universities are rapidly embracing surprisingly radical DEI measures. In Japan’s university admissions, admission quotas for females (Joshi-waku, literally “Girls’ Quotas”) grant eligibility exclusively to women and are being introduced successively in highly competitive STEM programs. Both national and private institutions employ this scheme. Typically, […]
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Forty years ago, it was “political correctness” and hate speech codes. Then came “social justice” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI). Now, universities promote the “health promoting campus” (HPC), which, at first glance, seems positive. But history urges caution. The student affairs profession has been relabeling the same thing for forty years, and the HPC […]
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The Commission on Accreditation (CoA) of the American Psychological Association (APA) released a memo a few weeks ago to inform clinical psychology programs of their decision “to immediately and temporarily suspend evaluation of programs for compliance with several specific accreditation standards. The suspended standards are those related to faculty and student program actions in the […]
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As part of the National Association of Scholars’s (NAS) ongoing reporting on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), I’ve been FOIAing DEI practices—scholarships, fellowships, hiring programs, trainings, strategic plans, etc.—and in August, I came across a massive DEI hiring program, the Diversifying Higher Education Faculty Initiative (DFI). The DFI is a faculty hiring program that discriminates […]
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Organizations such as the Roman Catholic Church have catechisms, a list of beliefs to which all members are expected to subscribe. Interestingly, the 1848 Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was really an extension of a slightly earlier Communist catechism authored by Engels. As far leftist extremists increasingly took over college campuses over […]
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President Trump’s Department of Education (ED) has targeted colleges and universities that fail to protect Jewish students’ civil rights and others that embrace “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies. Some universities have bowed to at least some of his concerns, others have vowed to fight him, and still others are trying to look compliant while […]
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Editor’s Note: The following excerpt is from the author’s latest book, DEI Exposed: How the Biggest Con of the Century Almost Toppled Higher Education. It has been edited to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines and is cross-posted here with permission. One of the best assessments of the popular racialist fictioneer Ta-Nehisi Coates was delivered […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the College Fix on April 9, 2024. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. While the University of Michigan (UMich) leadership recently announced its plans to roll back “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programming, it may face resistance from its own faculty. […]
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