“Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.” Proverbs 18:21 (English Standard Version) The Bible is full of wise references to the power of our words. We can use words to build up or tear down. Ideally, words are given life to communicate important […]| Minding The Campus
Progressive bureaucrats, student activism, eager donors, peer pressure: higher education institutions have an array of internal and external drives for promoting race, gender, and other leftist ideologies, but a powerful factor lies with mandates from accreditors to comply with diversity standards for institutional culture, staff and faculty hiring, student outcomes, and other relevant areas. In […]| Minding The Campus
Many opposed to the woke orthodoxy have long waited for a systemwide course-correcting. As early as 2022, red states began to legislate against ideological captures of higher education institutions by prohibiting the mandates of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) in areas like faculty hiring and classroom instruction. Anticipated changes at the federal level are solidifying […]| Minding The Campus
The left’s favorite slogan, “Speak truth to power,” is just that. It is an empty, propagandist slogan increasingly turned into an ironic snare, considering the power scale being tipped towards their side decisively in multiple facets of American life, and higher education is at the forefront of the irony. Across the nation, campus life is […]| Minding The Campus