Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the College Fix on October 21, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. The Democrat-controlled Senate is not expected to consider the “End Woke Higher Education Act” that recently passed in the House with moderate bipartisan support, but observers remain optimistic […]
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Amy Wax has provided a perfect test case for accessing the state of academic freedom. On paper, just about any college would be lucky to have her. She earned both an MD and a JD, argued 15 cases before the Supreme Court, and then became a law professor at a top college for three decades. […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on September 16, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Earlier this year, the Martin Center’s Ashlynn Warta wrote convincingly that faculty opposition to academic cuts at UNC Greensboro was best understood […]
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An essay I wrote entitled, “Incoming college STEM freshmen, take note: You need to take your classes seriously,” was published as a special to the USA TODAY Network and in two other South Florida newspapers. I offered ten suggestions for success to incoming college freshmen planning to major in a STEM discipline. Among the suggestions […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by American Greatness on October 2, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. Chad Aldeman, a Virginia-based researcher who focuses on education-related issues, recently detailed the educational experience of his daughter, who completed sixth grade in June. He writes that […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on October 14, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Ah, October, when temperatures fall, men rake leaves, and universities publish their annual crime data, as required by the 1990 Clery Act. […]
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Last week, a student of mine learned that I did not identify as far left. I watched, on the Zoom call, as her pupils dilated in fascination: “But you were an English major at Columbia!,” she exclaimed. Incidents like these are not uncommon. Over on my Instagram page, where I post videos to promote the […]
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