On June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court decided Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, a case about judicial standards for determining whether employment discrimination occurred, which favored or disadvantaged persons of different genders. What implications, if any, does this unanimous decision have for the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) movement? DEI’s Momentum and Judicial Pushback Central […]| Minding The Campus
Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on Law & Liberty on May 27, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. American higher education is characterized by many forms of tuition discounts, often called “scholarships.” Some of them are based on distinguished academic achievement, but often […]| Minding The Campus
One day after President Biden’s inaugural address stressing national unity, he signed an “Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.” He created another Executive Order in February 2023, this time expanding the equity mandate to the operation of every federal program. These executive orders (EOs) had a […]| Minding The Campus
Is It Time to Retire Social and Emotional Learning?| Minding The Campus
The National Association of Scholars (NAS) joined the Heritage Foundation for a panel discussion, “Unveiling DEI: Examining Its True Impact on Higher Education,” on August 20 in Washington, D.C. A recording of the full event, which featured Jay Greene, Heritage senior research fellow; Scott Yenor, professor of political science at Boise State University and Washington […]| Minding The Campus
NAS and Heritage Foundation Join to Unveil DEI’s Influence on Higher Education| Minding The Campus
The higher education community awaited a Supreme Court decision regarding campus admissions with great anxiety. After the Court issued Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College (SFFA) banning such racial discrimination, many campuses deplored it and sought ways to avoid its effect. An official letter to the “Dear Terrapin Community” […]| Minding The Campus
The higher education community awaited a Supreme Court decision regarding campus admissions with great anxiety. After the Court issued Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College (SFFA) banning such racial discrimination, many campuses deplored it and sought ways to avoid its effect. An official letter to the “Dear Terrapin Community” […]| Minding The Campus
DEI on Campus? It’s a Protection Racket| Minding The Campus
WATCH: Science Bargains with Trump, Protesters Storm NSF, and Slugs Go Solar| Minding The Campus
Ohio SB 1, which will do an extraordinary amount to depoliticize Ohio’s public higher education system, strengthen intellectual diversity, and restore its accountability to Ohio policymakers and citizens, well and truly will become law. Governor Mike DeWine signed SB 1 into law at the end of March. Since then, Ohio professors organized a petition campaign […]| Minding The Campus
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) shuttered its “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) office, eliminated diversity statements from faculty job applications, and cut its Vice President of Equity and Inclusion position. A promising step, but don’t be fooled—DEI persists at MIT. It hasn’t been rebranded; it’s still openly embedded. Interdepartmental committees thrive, and numerous administrative […]| Minding The Campus
Forty-Four Years in French Academia—And Why It’s All Gone Wrong| Minding The Campus
Professors Have Much to Learn from This College Dropout| Minding The Campus
The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) on campus has engendered a chorus of doom and gloom among conservative commentators. Daily Wire host Matt Walsh, citing a survey from the Guardian showing a sharp rise in AI cheating, said recently that “AI has killed what was left of the education system. It’s over.” But is that […]| Minding The Campus
For those of you who have been following my publication trail with Minding the Campus, you are likely familiar with my frequent discussions on scientific ethics. I have commented on research misconduct, peer review fraud, and the reproducibility crisis, examining the effect of careless behavior and intentional fabrication in the scientific world and their profound […]| Minding The Campus
The presence of artificial intelligence (AI) on college campuses is a foregone conclusion—a recent report found that 93 percent of students use it regularly for coursework. By this point, it is no longer a question of whether AI tools will be used on college campuses, but instead, how they will be used. Back in July, […] The post AI Can Boost Learning and Retention, Chief Technology Officer Says appeared first on Minding The Campus.| Minding The Campus
As universities attempt to rebrand their “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programs and offices, many have embraced the term “inclusive excellence,” promoting it as a strategy to recognize and cultivate both individual and institutional success. Inclusive excellence is framed as a method that values multiple perspectives to enhance overall performance. But in practice, it is […] The post ‘Inclusive Excellence’—Rebranding DEI into a Participation Trophy appeared first on...| Minding The Campus
For my entire adult life, I can’t recall an initiative to collect data to combat racial discrimination that has not been met with enthusiastic support. But then President Trump announced that colleges would have to submit more of their admissions data to combat racial discrimination, and things got weird. To understand the context here, recall […] The post Trump Administration Says It Wants to Fight Racial Discrimination in College Admissions—Then Things Got Weird appeared first on Mind...| Minding The Campus
International students have long been a lifeline for universities; one could even argue that they are a cash cow. They bring global perspectives, help fill enrollment gaps, and—very importantly—pay tuition at higher levels that subsidize the tuition of domestic students. For decades, countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia competed […] The post The West Is Giving International Students a Colder Welcome appeared first on Minding The Campus.| Minding The Campus
Yesterday, we reported that Texas State University (TXST) had terminated Thomas Alter, a newly tenured associate professor of history, following remarks he made on a virtual September 7th Socialist Horizon conference. At the time of that publication, we didn’t yet know that a Hays County district judge had already ordered the university to reinstate him […] The post UPDATE: Judge Ordered Texas State to Reinstate Fired Professor Thomas Alter appeared first on Minding The Campus.| Minding The Campus
Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs on September 29, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Oklahoma’s new social studies and science standards make it possible for students to have much-improved instruction in Oklahoma’s public K-12 classrooms. It […] The post Oklahoma’s New Standards Strengthen Social Studies and Science—Now They Must Be Car...| Minding The Campus
Editor’s Note: The following is an interview with Minding the Campus contributor Joe Nalven, published initially on Harald Johnson’s Substack, Create or Die, on August 20, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Joe Nalven is a creative, artist, instructor, and writer based in San Diego. He covers […] The post Joe Nalven on Keeping Art Human in an AI World appeared first on Minding The Campus.| Minding The Campus
The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the indispensable role of emergency responders in the healthcare system—and the pressing need to bolster that workforce. Since 2020, shortages of healthcare workers, including first responders, have become especially acute. A 2024 study by Mercer projected that the U.S. will see a total deficit of 100,000 critical healthcare workers by 2028 […] The post How a Small Liberal Arts College Is Preparing the First Responders of the Future appeared first on Mind...| Minding The Campus
What if I told you that a college dropout did more for higher education than many college professors? Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), never earned a formal degree; yet, his influence on American campuses has reshaped discussions around free speech and viewpoint diversity. Kirk dropped out of college, opting instead to […] The post Professors Have Much to Learn from This College Dropout appeared first on Minding The Campus.| Minding The Campus
This article presents a sharp and witty critique of the challenges faced in navigating modern technology in higher education. It effectively blends humor and personal anecdotes, utilizing clever cultural references. The engaging writing style is accessible yet insightful, pulling readers in with vivid metaphors and irony. I know this because the artificial intelligence (AI) platform […]| Minding The Campus
American colleges and universities are facing an unprecedented moment of adjustment. President Trump’s second term has brought sweeping higher education reforms—executive orders against “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) bureaucracies, stricter enforcement against campus anti-Semitism, new scrutiny of foreign funding, and heightened pressure on institutions that grant privileges to illegal aliens. We anticipated a spectrum of […]| Minding The Campus
The tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University has thrust the subject of political violence into the national spotlight. As expected, pundits and politicians quickly framed the attack as a rare outburst from the left, leaning on studies showing that right-wing extremists commit more politically motivated murders. Don Lemon, who was fired from […]| Minding The Campus
If the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can successfully prevent woke artificial intelligence (AI) in the federal government, as outlined in Trump’s Executive Order Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government (EO 14319), then perhaps academic institutions, corporations, and publicly available AI systems could also be freed from the prevailing mindset of engineering […]| Minding The Campus
Every semester, I pose a question to my students: Why are you here? Would you prioritize deep learning, even if it meant a lower grade, or chase the highest grade, even at the cost of true understanding? They almost always claim learning matters most. But I’m growing skeptical that they actually mean it. Those words […]| Minding The Campus
How a Generation Lost Its Common Culture| Minding The Campus
By Patrick Deneen My students are know-nothings. They are exceedingly nice, pleasant, trustworthy, mostly honest, well-intentioned, and utterly decent. But their brains are largely empty, devoid of any substantial knowledge that might be the fruits of an education in an inheritance and a gift of a previous generation. They are the culmination of western civilization, […]| Minding The Campus
Our society has become obsessed with science, engineering math, and technology (STEM)—not only in the name of progress but also because we have deemed reading and writing almost wholly unimportant. According to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the number of humanities bachelor’s degrees awarded to graduating seniors across American universities decreased by approximately […]| Minding The Campus
Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the College Fix on September 09, 2025. It is crossposted here with permission. Grand Valley State University’s (GVSU) Frederik Meijer Honors College has shifted toward a “social justice” orientation in both its curriculum and admissions in an effort to increase racial diversity, according to emails recently obtained […]| Minding The Campus
In response to my recent Martin Center article, “The Emptiness of Antisemitism Studies,” George Leef wrote in National Review and posed the question: “Can American universities take antisemitism seriously?” His framing perfectly captured the larger stakes of the problem. My original piece—later reprinted in Minding the Campus and by the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research—showed […]| Minding The Campus
In Season 5, Episode 7 of Gilmore Girls, Rory Gilmore—ever the ambitious Yale student journalist—follows whispers and cryptic clues to the Life and Death Brigade, a secret society of Yale’s wealthy elite known for their reckless, over-the-top spectacles. Her way in comes through Logan Huntzberger, the heir of a media dynasty and a core member […]| Minding The Campus
It’s been 24 years. September 11, 2001, was a Tuesday, but what I recall just as vividly is what happened the day before. The week of September 10-15 was to be “Palestinian Awareness Week” at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst). Everything changed on Tuesday morning, but on Monday afternoon, we had no idea […]| Minding The Campus
Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on Gatestone Institute on August 26, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. “The hate of the Jews,” Safra Catz, CEO of the U.S. technology giant Oracle, pointed out in 2024, “is the most ancient and continuous hate […]| Minding The Campus
Tradition-minded education reformers who wish to pass on to our children attachment to the ideals and institutions of the American republic and nation need to create new programs and schools independent of the existing far-left monoculture in academia. One way to go about this is to build up a network of autonomous Centers, such as […]| Minding The Campus
A recent Minding the Campus article reported that more than two dozen publications, co-authored by Arizona State University (ASU) professor Sethuraman Panchanathan, have been flagged on PubPeer. Panchanathan is the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), which outsources plagiarism investigations to the universities it funds. If you were a university funded by NSF, would […]| Minding The Campus
GMU PhD Student’s Call to Kill Trump Sparks Free Speech Debate| Minding The Campus
“Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.” – Proverbs 22:28 (KJV) In the latest row between conservative and liberal theologians over LGBT issues, conservative Anglican leaders said that “they could no longer recognize England’s archbishop of Canterbury as first among equals and called for an overhaul of how the global denomination is […]| Minding The Campus
Christian Higher Education Is Gen Z’s Salvation| Minding The Campus
Author’s Note: This excerpt 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, sign up on Minding the Campus’s homepage. Simply go to the right side of the page, look for “SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ‘TOP OF MIND,’” and […]| Minding The Campus
What to Know Before You Transfer from Community College| Minding The Campus
The Climate Crisis That Never Comes—and the Fear It Fuels| Minding The Campus
Student Essay—Sex Work as Empowerment? Straight-Up Gaslighting| Minding The Campus
My former French professor imparted this message to the class: college is the time to be selfish. Travel, drink, have plenty of sex. She was exceptionally cool, I thought. But, looking back, her advice couldn’t have been more misguided for young men and women. “Situationship,” “friends with benefits,” “you up babe”—these are the trendy phrases […]| Minding The Campus
In 1970, I was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City. This quickly triggered invitations to speaking on campuses throughout the U.S.—from Yale to Harvard to Stanford. Each engagement led to an average of three more. However, after starting hundreds of men’s and women’s groups — […]| Minding The Campus
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
The House of Representatives has passed its version of the reconciliation bill, which includes a new accountability system for higher education. Under this system, colleges would be responsible for reimbursing the government for a share of the government losses on loans to their students, with the share being determined by the college’s cost relative to […]| Minding The Campus
“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
There have been ongoing campus protests against Israel, with participation from Arab students and members of the public. Unfortunately, some Jews, both on and off campus, are also involved in these protests. But what about vigils or demonstrations in support of Israel, the only Jewish state in the world? In universities dominated by radical leftist […]| Minding The Campus
Editor’s Note: This article, originally published in French by the Observatory of University Ethics on March 4, 2022, was translated into English by the Observatory before being edited to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. It is crossposted here with permission. The expression “glass ceiling” is a polysemic metaphor, at least in its use. […]| Minding The Campus
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the Law & Liberty on November 13, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Disparity studies comparing various demographic groups based on different outcomes in education, employment, health, housing, and income have been a staple of public policy analysis for decades. […]| Minding The Campus
Minding the Campus has launched a new column featuring translated articles from the Observatory of University Ethics, a collective of volunteer academics led by Xavier-Laurent Salvador, a faculty member at the Sorbonne. This collaboration brings a valuable international perspective to our site, offering insights into global higher education issues seen through a French lens, with […]| Minding The Campus
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on November 13, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Professor John Ellis has been a critic of our higher education system for many years. His book the Breakdown of Higher Education—which I […]| Minding The Campus
Of course, Paul Revere was a hero as he rowed and rode to alarm the countryside around Boston: “The British are coming! The British are coming!” (“The Regulars are coming out,” the staid historians tell us were his actual words.) So too were the much neglected William Dawes and Samuel Prescott. We owe our independence and our liberty to their pluck and bravery. […]| Minding The Campus
WATCH: Credentialism’s Toll on American Prosperity| Minding The Campus
Let’s face it: science has gone woke. What used to be an ideological virus afflicting the arts and humanities has now spread through the entire university, STEMM fields included. That’s why Minding the Campus is renewing our focus on the sciences through a new, ongoing article series called Minding the Sciences. Here, we’ll cover wokeism in STEMM, scientific integrity, research funding, climate science, scientific associations, and much more.| Minding The Campus
In July, I attended the 41st Annual Meeting of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP) in Tucson, Arizona. The meeting opened with the national anthem played beautifully on the trumpet and the violin by the teenage sons (Benjamin and Franklin!) of Willie Soon, the first speaker. DDP was founded in the early 1980s as a “group […]| Minding The Campus
The headline caught my attention: “Squirrels spotted hunting and eating animals for first time.” Reading on [emphases added]: Until now, squirrels were thought to be primarily vegetarian, cramming their cheeks full of seeds and nuts, which they often bury in underground stores to get through the colder months. But biologists were amazed to see Californian […]| Minding The Campus
A couple of weeks ago, the Washington Post reported on the shattered career of “renowned AIDS researcher” Jeffrey Parsons, a psychologist who spent most of his career at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY). The Post’s story was about the settlement in a long-running civil case over Parsons’ use and abuse […]| Minding The Campus
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. It was welcome […]| Minding The Campus
As the Trump administration battles to secure the southern border and undo Biden’s reckless dereliction of duty—which allowed 10 million illegal migrants into the country—colleges and universities are doing everything they can to make immigration enforcement a nightmare. Instead of helping address this crisis, they’re actively obstructing federal agents, blatantly disregarding the rule of law […]| Minding The Campus
Science™ is fighting back! In case you were worried. The final straw was the National Institutes of Health (NIH) decreeing in February that indirect cost reimbursements on research grants would henceforth be cut to about 25 percent of their current rate. Hard to see what the complaint is there. Indirect costs mostly fuel administrative bloat, […]| Minding The Campus
Top Medical Schools Teach Weight Inclusivity, Racial Justice, Report Says| Minding The Campus
There Is No University Without the Resurrection| Minding The Campus
From October 28th to the wee hours of October 31st, I attended Hereticon at the Faena Hotel on Miami Beach. Put on by tech billionaire Peter Thiel—who has been frequently and unfairly villainized by the mainstream media and academia—through his Founders Fund and organized by the indefatigable Michael Solano, Hereticon is a conference for those […]| Minding The Campus
Author’s Note: This excerpt 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, sign up on Minding the Campus’s homepage. Simply go to the right side of the page, look for “SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ‘TOP OF MIND,’” and […]| Minding The Campus
Professor Alleges “Widespread” Discriminatory Hiring Coverup at University of Washington| Minding The Campus
Activism and Art Shape the New Museum Experience| Minding The Campus
How to Monitor Military Academy Admissions| Minding The Campus
Is there hope for higher education? If so, it will be found at the University of Austin (UATX). In an email shared with Minding the Campus yesterday, Pano Kanelos, formerly dean of Christ College, the Honors College of Valparaiso University, and now founding president of UATX, gave news of “officially announcing the launch of America’s […]| Minding The Campus
Trump Should Restructure Job Corps, Not Shut It Down| Minding The Campus
Ohio Senate Ditches Progressive, Anti-Market OPM Regulation| Minding The Campus
The Department of Education (ED) is a bloated bureaucracy feeding off taxpayer dollars and far removed from understanding school districts’ needs. A new report, Waste Land: The Department’s Profligacy, Mediocrity, and Radicalism, lays out exactly where the Trump administration should cut, reallocate, or eliminate wasteful programs. One case study in the report proves what conservatives […]| Minding The Campus
Ames v. Ohio Affirms Equal Civil Rights for All, Undercuts DEI Legal Basis| Minding The Campus
George Washington took command of the Continental Army outside Boston on July 3, 1775. He immediately spent a solid week inspecting the army, and only then wrote to the Continental Congress with his first report. The Continental Army was brave, but it could be made better. Above all, Washington needed money. I find myself already […]| Minding The Campus
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. “I’m 22 years […]| Minding The Campus
Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on July 03, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Top medical schools are enforcing beliefs such as “weight inclusivity,” racial justice, and gender ideology on their staff and students through “policies, forced statements, and curricular […]| Minding The Campus
Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on RealClear Education on July 02, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Harvard Government Department professors Ryan Enos and Steven Levitsky recently warned in the Harvard Crimson that if Harvard negotiates with the Trump administration to restore frozen federal research funding, […]| Minding The Campus
In Episode 9 of The Week in Science, Director of Science Programs at the National Association of Scholars (NAS) Scott Turner takes us on a tour of scientific upheaval—political, bureaucratic, and biological. We begin with the five stages of grief—not for people, but for scientists, who are still grappling with the Trump administration’s supposed war […]| Minding The Campus
We couldn’t find the exit to the parking structure. We were also afraid to arrive late to a conference on Exodus 2. I spotted a young woman who appeared to be a student. She was more than helpful in leading us out of the parking structure. On the way, I asked her what her major […]| Minding The Campus
What is the West? Stepping onto most college campuses today, it is something to be reviled rather than defined. The Italian scholastic Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274 AD) is often most credited with arguing for a harmony of human reason and divine revelation as leading to truth, and the use of reason in approaching divine texts. Revelation […]| Minding The Campus
In a landmark decision, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has reached an agreement with the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) requiring the removal of trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas’s records from the women’s category. The university must also restore records to the female athletes displaced by Thomas, issue a formal apology to those affected by […]| Minding The Campus
