Day: December 4, 2024

College Students Need to Learn Discipline

When checking my Yahoo emails in the morning, I always inevitably pass by the news section on the front page. I almost never actually read the articles, though—until recently. I was struck by the title and could not help but click it. My approach was certainly one of skepticism—clickbait is all too common on the […]

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Race-Based Hiring Programs Persist at Public Universities. Here’s How.

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the Washington Free Beacon on November 26, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. In September 2022, the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) made a bold promise to the school’s Office of Diversity, Equity, […]

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Dual Enrollment Is a Deceptive Fix for Declining Admissions

What drives colleges and universities to offer dual enrollment classes for high school students? Well, many colleges and universities have experienced significant declines in freshmen enrollment in the last ten years—accelerated by the COVID-19 shutdown but continuing since. Some have regained ground by enrolling more transfer and graduate students, but the outlook remains bleak. This […]

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Feminism’s Greatest Achievement

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by PJ Media on November 11, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. The destruction of Western Civilization is coming not from the scimitars of rampaging Islamic hordes, or from the goose-stepping Nazi thugs, or the fanatical Soviet or Chinese communists. Rather, […]

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