On April 9th, I reported that more than two dozen articles by National Science Foundation (NSF) director Sethuraman Panchanathan had been called out for verbatim copying without citing sources, some of which were copyrighted. Two weeks later, on April 24th, Panchanathan announced his departure from NSF, but did not provide a reason. He returned to […]
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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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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on May 23, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) can no longer fulfill its legal duties due to severe funding cuts, staffing reductions, and office […]
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Representing ourselves, my son and I just filed lawsuits against the University of California, the University of Washington, the University of Michigan, and Cornell for discriminating against Asian Americans in their admissions. The LA Times, Fox News, and New York Post covered our lawsuits. In short, at age 18, co-plaintiff Stanley Zhong was hired by […]
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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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The recent dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the Ivy League’s ban on athletic scholarships has brought renewed attention to the longstanding policies of some of the nation’s most prestigious universities. The case, filed by former Ivy League athletes at Brown, Tamenang Choh, and Grace Kirk, accused all Ivy League schools and the Ivy League Council of Presidents of violating […]
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In 2021, Middlebury College in Vermont decided to rename a Christian chapel originally named after former Vermont Governor John Mead due to Mead’s historical advocacy for the eugenics movement. A family lawsuit led by the Estate’s Special Administrator, former Vermont Governor Jim Douglas, alleges that John Mead gifted the funds to construct the chapel specifically […]
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That certain quarters of the academy–humanities departments, most social sciences departments, and many graduate programs (social work, education, and to a lesser extent law)–are ideologically imbalanced is not news. A decision in an Iowa court, however, exposed the difficulty in addressing the problem. The case, which received extensive coverage in the Des Moines Register and […]
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