Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the National Association of Scholars on August 26, 2025. It is crossposted here with permission. Amidst public outcry for higher education to reform, along with pressure from the Trump administration and the Department of Education (ED), it seems that a divide is growing amongst college and university leadership—some are […]
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The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently announced that George Mason University (GMU) violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by implementing policies that discriminated on the basis of race in hiring, promotion, and other university practices. The finding comes after years of criticism regarding the university’s aggressive […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Liberty Unyielding on July 3, 2025, and is crossposted here with permission. It has been edited to fit Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. This fall, a Virginia couple is sending their daughter to George Mason University (GMU), Virginia’s largest public university, which has over 40,000 students. On June 30, they […]
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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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On April 16, 2025, Nicholas Decker, a PhD student at George Mason University (GMU), published a Substack essay titled “When Must We Kill Them?,” which calls for violence against President Donald Trump and his administration. Decker, who identifies as a liberal and open-borders advocate in his X bio, bases much of his argument on Trump’s […]
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An ongoing lawsuit brought by enterprising student activists revealed last month that George Mason University had given the Charles Koch Foundation input into faculty selection and evaluation under some financial gift agreements. Naturally, media outlets seized on the story as demonstrable proof of the long-suspected perfidy of the Kochs, with lengthy write-ups excoriating the Kochs […]
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