Will you help us continue our work to reform American higher education?| Minding The Campus
Federal Anti-DEI Guidelines Must Be Enforced Locally—State Attorneys General Should Step Up| Minding The Campus
I’ve recently had the honor and the pleasure to serve on the Workgroup assembled by the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) to help draft Florida’s new K-12 History of Communism standards. I shouldn’t say anything about the draft standards in detail, since they haven’t yet been published, but my fellow workgroup members and the members […]| Minding The Campus
Today, the Justice Department announced that it has acted to end the state of Illinois’ unlawful minority-only scholarship program. After the Justice Department threatened to file suit, the state and six universities suspended the program.| www.justice.gov
The Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois Program is committed to helping our fellows fulfill their fellowship responsibilities and obtain the tools needed to successfully enter higher academia in faculty or administrative professional positions.| www.ibhe.org
Attorney General of the United States Pam Bondi speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.| Flickr
Fellow-to-faculty programs have seeded academia with activists.| City Journal
The Supreme Court in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (SFFA) banned the use of race in admissions in higher education. In the State University of New York system, however, race-conscious methods are alive and well in another domain: faculty hiring. After the ruling, Chancellor John B. King, Jr. and the SUNY Board of Trustees […]| City Journal
The Illinois Board of Higher Education runs a scholarship program for graduate students that explicitly excludes white applicants, a move lawyers say is unconstitutional and could jeopardize the federal funding of more than two dozen participating universities, including Northwestern University and the University of Chicago.| freebeacon.com
Father and Son Challenge Four Universities Over Anti-Asian Admissions Discrimination| Minding The Campus
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 […]| Minding The Campus