June 12, 2025 — Minding The Campus
WATCH: Turner on Science Funding Facts, Native Epidemics, and Dinosaur Calls| Minding The Campus
WATCH: Turner on Science Funding Facts, Native Epidemics, and Dinosaur Calls| Minding The Campus
[B]y its very existence, [mathematics] poses a serious threat to their entire world view that there is no such thing as objective truth and what they have to say on any subject is just as valid as what anyone else says. Imagine a baseball field with a ball resting on the ground. Two teams come […]| Minding The Campus
As a history PhD, I’m used to hearing that I should have studied STEM (science, technology, engineering, or math) instead. We humanities graduates often retort that our skills are underappreciated, but our arguments ring hollow in the face of a difficult job market. Facing this reality, ambitious students rapidly abandoned arts majors throughout the 2000s, […]| Minding The Campus
“Anyone who looks through enough statistics will eventually find numbers that seem to confirm a given vision.” — Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed In the ideological universe of moralistic warriors fighting against injustices operating on group characteristics, disparity always means discrimination, while correlation is definitely causation. The propensity for confirmation biases is so […]| Minding The Campus
On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress took its first bold step toward becoming a nation: it created a national army. Until then, each colony had relied on its own militia. But after the violent clashes at Lexington and Concord, it was clear that isolated efforts wouldn’t be enough. A unified defense would require […]| Minding The Campus
Congratulations to the Ohio Senate for restoring a large measure of reason in the treatment of online program managers (OPMs) in the latest version of legislation. OPMs are a huge benefit to public and private colleges because they help colleges innovate and reach students anywhere in the world at a low cost. They should be treated […]| Minding The Campus
The 2025 Republican-led bill HB 0793 permits Tennessee public schools to deny enrollment to, or charge tuition for, students who cannot establish their legal immigration status. Proponents of the bill cite the need to protect the state’s fiscal interests as its main justification, while critics argue that it would violate federal law regarding undocumented students, […]| Minding The Campus
Author’s Note: July 2025 will mark the centenary of the famous Tennessee “Scopes Monkey Trial.” This is the second article in a series leading up to the centennial events in Dayton, Tennessee, the site of the trial. Read the first in the series here. A century ago, the world’s greatest three-ring circus was about to […]| Minding The Campus
Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on March 24, 2025. The Observatory translated it from French into English. 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. We are not campaigning for […]| Minding The Campus
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 […]| Minding The Campus
In Episode 6 of The Week in Science, host Scott Turner, Director of Science Programs at the National Association of Scholars, explores a trio of fascinating topics. Science magazine decries “massive cuts” to the National Science Foundation (NSF) budget, slashing it from $9 billion to $3.9 billion—a 57 percent reduction. The chance of a research […]| Minding The Campus
