More than two years after Lia Thomas became the first male athlete to win an NCAA all-women’s swimming title, the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) has officially admitted its faults and will strip Thomas—born William Thomas—of those titles, return accolades to the rightful female athletes, and issue a public apology. UPenn reached a resolution agreement with […]
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In a recent article, I described how Arizona State University (ASU) refused to investigate plagiarism by its administrator, Sethuraman Panchanathan, while he was serving as director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Panchanathan later resigned unexpectedly and returned to ASU—just in time for the university to sue the NSF to preserve its high rate of […]
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Two hundred forty-nine years ago, a determined band of colonists didn’t just declare independence—they dismantled the old world order. They rejected the centuries-old belief that power comes from bloodlines, conquest, or divine right, and proposed something audacious: that legitimacy flows from the governed, not the governor. That moment was not merely the birth of America—it […]
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The joy of learning to build something useful, of unearthing what no one has seen before, of understanding what was once obscure or even a mystery, of finally putting the data together, of creating something new are intellectual and spiritual joys. The satisfaction of disciplining yourself to effectuate a goal, of working with a team, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on July 02, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. When I signed up for Professor Michael Whitehawk’s sociology class at Texas State University (TXST), I hoped it would challenge me to look at society in […]
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“Nice university you got here. Be a shame if anything happened to it.” That brutish gangster threat is the “diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hustle in its most succinct form. It captures the protection racket that has plagued American higher education for the past five years, certainly since the hot, violent summer of 2020 coerced […]
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Editor’s Note: A version of this article was originally published on the author’s Substack on June 6, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. A new era is here. With ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok now widely available, artificial intelligence (AI) tools are starting to reshape how […]
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The question “What is a woman?” has become one of the most contentious debates in modern politics and culture. From transwomen winning women’s college championships in hurdles and swimming or being admitted into sororities, to conservative commentator Matt Walsh’s documentary What Is a Woman?, to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s now-famous statement during […]
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New Jersey City University (NJCU) recently announced a plan to merge with nearby Kean University. The announcement comes after years of financial mismanagement and shrinking enrollment. NJCU is lucky. A merger is much better than going out of business outright, a fate that has recently befallen several historic institutions, including Limestone University, which closed after 160 years in […]
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As artificial intelligence (AI) models continue to expand their capabilities and their usage spreads, more cases of bias are emerging. It is essential to determine whether its biases are valid or have been introduced by human interference, whether deliberate or accidental. Once we know the source of the bias, we can hopefully find remedies. AI […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article has been previously published on the Front Page, the Boston Herald, and CT Insider. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is posted here with permission. “Globalize the Intifada.” This is the malevolent mantra, using the Arabic word for “uprising” or “struggle,” that Hamas supporters in America […]
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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 […]
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Editor’s Note: The following excerpt is from an article originally published by Diogenes In Exile on June 23, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. Reclaiming Education: Three Legislative Fixes to Push Back Against Ideological Capture It may be difficult to focus on the arcane issues of higher education with the […]
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