Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the National Association of Scholars on October 28, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. On October 1, the Trump administration sent a letter to nine American universities offering a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” […]
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In a few days, hordes of witches, ghosts, walking skeletons, and other assorted monsters will descend upon my suburban cul-de-sac. None of them frightens me very much, with the possible exception of the overweight 45-year-old dude in the Spider-Man costume. No, as a long-time college professor, I’m most afraid these days of three things: bad robots, the abyss, and […]
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Recent reports show that parents, regardless of political affiliation, still aspire to send their children to college. Yet they would be wise to carefully consider where they are sending them, what kind of education they will receive, and who will be teaching them. The concern is not just about academic quality but about the ideological […]
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“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.” — John Stuart Mill The debate over “viewpoint diversity” has moved from faculty lounges to legislatures and boardrooms. Universities from Ohio to Florida have written it into law, and others, like Johns Hopkins, have partnered with think tanks to bring new […]
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Much discourse on college campuses centers on identity politics—the idea that one’s identity, or the way one identifies, deserves attention and respect more than classical ideals of the academy. Instead of discussing philosophy, ethics, or what it means to live a good and moral life, students, egged on by their professors, engage in conversations about marginalization and who […]
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Love seems to be over for college students. That’s at least what I gathered from a recent conversation with a student in Texas. I’ll leave him unnamed—and because he wants total anonymity, I won’t even tell you what school he goes to. But I will tell you he’s not scoring dates. And it’s not for […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the College Fix on October 21, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Elite universities are using the H-1B foreign worker visa program to staff their “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) offices, according to a Republican senator. Missouri Senator Eric […]
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Only in America! News outlets recently mourned the passing of Sister Jean Schmidt, who lived to the remarkable age of 106. What made her so noteworthy? She wasn’t a humanitarian on the path to sainthood, nor a theological visionary. She was, rather, celebrated as America’s most devoted sports fan. She was a nun famous for […]
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Editor’s Note:The following is an excerpt of an article originally published by the National Association of Scholars on October 21, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. What is the National Association of Scholars (NAS)? One answer was provided in the current issue of the Chronicle […]
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Author’s Note: The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent the official position or views of Baylor University. The Memorial to Enslaved Persons at Baylor University, a private Christian university in Waco, Texas, represents an effort to acknowledge and make amends for the university’s historical ties to the objectively […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the College Fix on October 15, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Nearly half of U.S. states offer in-state tuition to illegal immigrant students despite federal restrictions on such benefits, according to the Higher ED Immigration Portal. Among […]
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“Under the Trump Administration, America is descending into the long night of fascism.” That is the mantra of professors around the country who condemn the administration’s efforts in higher education to reverse the recent explosion of anti-Semitism, to ensure the presentation of multiple viewpoints, and to end programs that violate the Supreme Court decision in […]
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Like many others, I have found myself less efficient and effective at work over the past few weeks. On Wednesday, September 10, I was very upset that Charlie Kirk was assassinated at a college event in Utah while engaging in free speech. I was thinking about what a tragedy that was for his young children, […]
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On January 1, 1990, Charles Krauthammer penned a piece for Foreign Affairs in which he asserted that the world had now entered the “Unipolar Moment,” a moment in which the United States remained the sole superpower and arbiter of world affairs through the American-led financial, trade, economic, and security-based system. In this article, Krauthammer stated: […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on American Greatness on October 10, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. On September 30, 2025, a federal trial court in Massachusetts found that the Trump Administration violated the First Amendment in March when it moved to detain and deport Mahmoud […]
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It’s no secret that academic dishonesty is rampant at colleges and universities across the country—around the world, really. Indeed, cheating, to use the old-fashioned term, has been on the rise for decades, beginning with the arrival of the internet in the 1990s, and it took a quantum leap at the start of this decade. According to Times Higher Education, the […]
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It’s only on rare occasions that you don’t receive this letter from me, and last week was one of those rare occasions because I was immersed at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s (ISI) 2025 American Politics and Government Summit, ISI’s annual gathering of conservative scholars and faculty, in Delaware. For two days, we delved into lectures […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on Qudrant on October 2, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Given the parlous state of Australia’s education system, which sees so many students leave school morally adrift, emotionally fraught, and culturally illiterate, it’s not surprising hundreds of […]
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Just two weeks after a Hays County judge ordered Texas State University (TXST) to reinstate Associate Professor of History Thomas Alter, the university has terminated him once again. Alter’s latest dismissal followed a due process hearing on Monday, October 13, during which administrators upheld his original firing over remarks he made at a virtual September […]
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Imagine an era where Big Tech, billionaire foundations, and government bureaucrats feast on your child’s innermost thoughts from kindergarten right through college. Now read The New Face of Woke Education by Priscilla West, and discover the chilling surveillance state masquerading as Social Emotional Learning (SEL) already deeply embedded in schools near you. While innocuous sounding, […]
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“Do you crave hookups without hangouts? Do you want to come without commitment? Do you want desire without all the drama?” That was the opening of the article, “Sex & the CT: Beginner’s Guide to Casual Sex,” recently posted on the University of Rochester’s student newspaper, Campus Times. The piece, which appears to have been […]
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When we think of modern-day anti-Semitism in America, the images that come to mind are often the pro-Palestinian—and, by extension, pro-Hamas—protests that erupted across college and university campuses. Quads and courtyards filled with masked demonstrators in keffiyehs chanting, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free.” Reports of Israel history classes disrupted, staff […]
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