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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While the United States dismantles “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), Canada still clings desperately to this cult of mediocrity. Sensing an impending cultural shift, Canadian DEI professionals are scrambling to mount a defense reminiscent of Jonathan Swift’s “Modest Proposal.” While Swift suggested eating children to solve poverty, diversicrats deploy discrimination in their moral crusade to […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by American Greatness on March 21, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. On Friday, March 14, Trump‘s Education Department announced an investigation into more than 50 colleges and universities for their continuation of racial preferences despite the Supreme Court’s 2023 opinion in Students for Fair Admissions […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the College Fix on March 19, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. Michigan State University (MSU) recently opened a $38 million Multicultural Center to act as a “sanctuary” for “minorities” with rooms designated for “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) student groups. An […]
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Author’s Note: This excerpt 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, sign up directly by entering your name and email under “SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ‘TOP OF MIND,’” located on the right-hand side of the […]
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Editor’s Note: This article originally stated that the NSF-funded math postdoc was at Texas Southern University. It has been corrected to reflect that the position is at Texas State University. Despite having one of the most stringent anti-DEI legislations in the country, Texas universities still host an array of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programs […]
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It is immensely encouraging to see state legislatures proposing and, in some cases, passing bills that would end “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) indoctrination in public colleges and universities. DEI programs are widespread in higher education, and they do profound harm to students, faculty, and the quality of education. Getting rid of them, however, is […]
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In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision, Student for Fair Admission, which banned the use of affirmative action in university admissions, the real possibility of suing higher education institutions under the federal False Claims Act was raised, not only for continuing to use race in admissions, but also for engaging in any “diversity, equity, […]
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After openly criticizing “anti-vaxxers” who did not buy into the whole COVID-19 vaccine hoopla, one of my professors at Emory University jokingly posed this question to the lecture hall: “Everyone here is a liberal, right?” As a freshman who had claimed a philosophical exemption just to attend my university, I cringed. Even though I was […]
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Ohio Senate Bill 1, passed by the Senate, will be a big step forward for higher education. The bill would protect free speech; forbid discrimination based on race or other group identity; forbid indoctrination by faculty and staff; forbid “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programs; and institute an undergraduate General Education Requirement in American government […]
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Author’s Note: This excerpt 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, sign up on Minding the Campus’s homepage. Simply go to the right side of the page, look for “SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ‘TOP OF MIND,’” and […]
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For the first time in a long time, conservatives and heterodox thinkers seem to be getting the upper hand in the culture war. At the federal level, executive orders such as those ending federal “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programs, combatting racial discrimination in institutions that receive federal funding, and pushing back against radical transgenderism […]
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“Diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) has been in the headlines quite a bit lately, and not for good reasons. Indeed, we may be witnessing the collapse of the entire toxic ideology and not a moment too soon. Its effect on society has been devastating, leading to a noticeable decline in professionalism and public trust. For […]
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Author’s Note: This excerpt 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, sign up on Minding the Campus’s homepage. Simply go to the right side of the page, look for “SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ‘TOP OF MIND,’” and […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the College Fix on February 4, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. “Diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) course requirements in at least 30 states cost students and taxpayers at least $1.8 billion per four-year period. Meanwhile, “the current undergraduate population at public […]
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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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Author’s Note: This excerpt 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, sign up on Minding the Campus’s homepage. Simply go to the right side of the page, look for “SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ‘TOP OF MIND,’” and […]
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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 the College Fix on January 21, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology still requires a diversity, equity and inclusion essay for some students despite banning DEI faculty statements last spring. The requirement by MIT’s Sloan School […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by PJ Media on December 29, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. The foundational idea of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is the Marxist theory that all humanity is divided between oppressors and victims. This class conflict can be […]
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