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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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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“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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One week ago marked the anniversary of October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists murdered 1,200 Israelis and took 250 more hostage. While the hostages have since been released and initial steps toward a ceasefire are underway, tensions on college campuses, and the fear surrounding them, show no sign of easing alongside shifting geopolitics. Columbia University, […]
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The recent Supreme Court decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor (2025) ruled that parents are entitled to a preliminary injunction, allowing their children to opt out of school instruction that uses LGBTQIA2S+ inclusive books. The ruling’s broader implications indicate that parents, not school officials, have the primary responsibility—indeed, the constitutional right—to guide the education of their […]
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A traditional four-year education has historically been advertised to encompass two key components: knowledge formation and practical application. Critical thinking and intellectual debate—values with intrinsic worth that quench one’s thirst for knowledge and foster analytical assessment in daily life—exist as the base of academia: knowledge formation. On top of this stands practical application—expertise and skills […]
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On October 13, 1775, the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Navy. How could the rebellious colonies dream of putting themselves forward as a sea power against the Royal Navy, the strongest maritime force in the world? It was another instance of the weakness that sometimes makes men audacious. Knowing that they had neither the […]
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Columbia University is trying, at least in part, to heal. Some students and faculty sincerely want to restore a sense of shared community after a year of turmoil. Others remain defiant and still steeped in the same antagonism, ideological rigidity, and anti-Semitism that poisoned campus life to begin with. The university’s latest experiment, the Listening […]
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The Democratic Party, mainstream media, leftist intelligentsia, and their activist supporters are in a full-on panic mode about the fate of “American democracy.” Not only are these self-anointed freedom warriors gravely “concerned” about the prospects of democracy under the leadership of their political opponents, disregarding that America is in fact a constitutional representative republic, they […]
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Editor’s Note: The following excerpt is from an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on October 1, 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. Never short of ideas […]
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Colleges and universities in the U.S. have faced mounting challenges in recent years. A declining birth rate has led to fewer applicants; rising tuition costs and the ideological takeover of institutions have made Americans increasingly skeptical of higher education; and the growth of online and nontraditional programs—with their ability to credential workers more efficiently—has further […]
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Dear Samuel, In a landmark ruling, a federal court yesterday ruled that the Trump administration, as part of a broad assault on our civil rights, violated the First Amendment in carrying out a policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons. The AAUP, the Middle Eastern Studies Association and several AAUP chapters […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of an article originally published on the author’s Substack on August 17, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Here, with a few comments on each, are the top ten books that have influenced me in my career as […]
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Previously, I pointed out the obvious: university rankings reflect the perceptions of what determines collegiate excellence, as decided by the rankers. One ranking organization might stress the positive perceived advantage to students of social mobility, the degree of economic diversity that there is between students. Others might emphasize job placement or the financial return on […]
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For years, Florida fought back against leftist overreach in education. So why is it now forcing every aspiring counselor, including school counselors, to undergo ideological training that contradicts the state’s own values? The Hidden Trojan Horse in Florida’s Counseling Standards Florida has taken bold steps to combat the influence of woke ideology in K-12 and […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the National Association of Scholars on October 7, 2025. It is crossposted here with permission. Today, of course, is October 7. Two years ago, the terrorist organization Hamas led the charge into southern Israel, trailed by a few thousand Gazans, for an hours-long conflagration of the most barbaric kind. […]
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University of Southern California (USC) Interim President Beong Soo Kim has been handed a great gift in the form of the Trump administration’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” Currently, the nine universities that have been asked to review the draft Compact have not been asked to sign it; instead, they have been […]
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Do No Harm, founded by former Penn Medical School dean Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, has launched the Center for Accountability in Medicine (CAM). “Through data-driven research and public rankings, the Center empowers policy solutions grounded in evidence and equal opportunity – not ideology,” the website reads. Its newest initiative, the Medical School Excellence Index, ranks medical […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of an article originally published by the College Fix on October 3, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) Medicine’s Black Doctors Directory can no longer exclude members based on race following a recent district […]
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The temptation to twist logic for racist ends is almost irresistible. I encountered an almost humorous example a few months ago in an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by a professor of religious studies and philosophy. Richard Amesbury’s claim is that criticism of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies is racist. Which is […]
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