President Donald Trump has made it abundantly clear he wants to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education (ED), and some news reports suggest an executive order to achieve that is imminent. Since the ED was created by Congress, it would take formal Congressional action to eliminate it, and the administration lacks the votes. Therefore, whether […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on September 2, 2024. It was translated from French into English by the Observatory and subsequently edited to conform to Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. It is crossposted here with permission. While the acronym “INSPE” is not explicitly defined, it most likely […]
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In the darkness of 2020, the memory that comes up the most was supervising the case of a severely ill young woman who went by the “they/them” pronouns. Understanding the illness and formulating a coherent treatment plan—and, in the process, helping the counselor-in-training to develop clinical thinking—was blocked by the rage of students whose reaction […]
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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like Grok, ChatGPT, Claude, et cetera will radically change student assignments and evaluation in college classes. I have already explained how AI means that students can no longer be forced to do the reading. How will college professors change in response? Consider some likely approaches. They can ignore AI because […]
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Two of America’s prestigious private universities, Vanderbilt and Washington University in St. Louis, recently did something extraordinary: they jointly bought a full paid ad in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Higher Education is at a Crossroads” that asserted: Ideological forces in and outside of campuses have pulled too many universities away from the core purpose, […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the College Fix on March 3 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. About one in nine Christian colleges have some form of connection with Planned Parenthood, a recent investigation by the Pro-Life Generation’s Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement found. The institute, an […]
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Newly confirmed Secretary of Education Linda McMahon has just sent an initial email to the staff at the Education Department (ED): Our job is to respect the will of the American people and the President they elected, who has tasked us with accomplishing the elimination of bureaucratic bloat here at the Department of Education—a momentous […]
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President Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Education (ED), Linda McMahon, was confirmed today. As the co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) alongside her husband, Vince McMahon, the mogul has had a longstanding career in business, politics, and public service. In 2009, McMahon left WWE to try her hand in politics. But after two […]
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Higher education accreditation is an arcane but vitally important target for reform in the new administration. Accreditation is used to ensure colleges meet a minimal level of quality—colleges without an accreditor approval do not have access to federal financial aid programs like Pell Grants and student loans. But accreditation is broken. As I lay out […]
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Barnard College was finally showing signs of responsible leadership when it expelled two students for participating in an egregious, anti-Semitic disruption of a class on modern Israel at Columbia earlier this semester. But after almost two years of anti-Semitic chaos on campus, the college’s leaders have evidently still not learned their lesson. When protesters who were […]
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It is immensely encouraging to see state legislatures proposing and, in some cases, passing bills that would end “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) indoctrination in public colleges and universities. DEI programs are widespread in higher education, and they do profound harm to students, faculty, and the quality of education. Getting rid of them, however, is […]
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Initially enacted in 1972 to prohibit sex-based discrimination in federally funded educational institutions, Title IX aimed to ensure women’s equal participation in academia. But in the last few decades, each U.S. president has attempted to make amendments to the law. In 2011, the Obama administration broadened its scope to include sexual harassment and assault, mandating […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on March 6, 2024. It was translated from French into English by the Observatory and subsequently edited to conform to Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. It is crossposted here with permission. While the acronym “INSPE” is not explicitly defined, it […]
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On Feb. 5, U.S. Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH), in collaboration with Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), introduced the Higher Education Accountability Tax (HEAT) Act, H.R. 1006. By amending the Internal Revenue Code, the bill seeks to hold private colleges and universities accountable for their role in the student debt crisis by increasing taxes on their investment […]
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During the Civil War, Democrats attempted to use cotton and private shipping companies to undermine American security and gain support in Europe for the Confederacy. Today, the blue state of California is leveraging Berkeley to build ties with China and undermine America’s qualitative advantages in dual-use technology and to undermine energy independence. On the West […]
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Earlier this month, Vice President JD Vance delivered a blistering speech to Europeans that questioned whether the other half of the West adheres to a commitment to free speech or is embracing censorship and a suicidal embrace of mass migration. In Europe, these issues have been at the forefront of the leadup to Germany’s election. […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on March 18, 2022. It was translated into English from French by the Observatory before being edited to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. It is crossposted here with permission. The French language is continually evolving and adapting; that’s a fact. […]
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Editor’s Note: This is the second of two essays titled “An Extra Credit Assignment Inspires Reflection on Study Habits.” You can read the first one here. An essay I wrote, “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 South […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published on the author’s Substack Diogenes in Exile on September 30, 2024. With edits to fit MTC’s style, it is crossposted here with permission. Multicultural counseling sells itself as an inclusive space where all are welcomed, but the reality is quite different. Today’s counseling students are being stripped […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the College Fix on February 26, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. The National Endowment for the Humanities granted $247,000 to Central Washington University (CWU) to “digitally capture” the stories of transgender Americans over the age of 50. The federal grant will […]
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When you graduate and get your first job, seeing the money rolling into your bank account feels momentous. After years of scrimping and saving, you finally have a positive bank balance to spend on something other than your tuition fees, rent, groceries, or nights out. While graduating is a big milestone and can feel like […]
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When misconduct strikes in scientific research, it triggers a domino effect of ruined reputations, compromised integrity, and shattered public trust in science. But when it happens in medical practice, the consequences are far graver: real human pain, suffering, and death. In the summer of 2024, Beverly and William Bryan would arrive in Florida together to […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by RealClearInvestigations on February 19, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. In the plummy world of alumni relations, where distinguished graduates are awarded honorary degrees and major donors are fêted at the president’s mansion, it is virtually unheard of for former students to […]
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Author’s Note: This excerpt is from my weekly “Top of Mind” email, sent to subscribers every Thursday. For more content like this and to receive the full newsletter each week, sign up directly by entering your name and email under “SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ‘TOP OF MIND,’” located on the right-hand side of […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published PJ Media on February 7, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. No, the Red-Green coalition is not a political alliance between members of the Republican Party and the environmental catastrophists of the Green Party. Republicans do not accept that […]
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It has been over a month since the second Trump administration took office, and clearly the president is serious about reducing spending. DEI programs have been discontinued, and many grants to non-government organizations have been halted. Thousands of government employees have been laid off. One target of the cutbacks has been grants for scientific research. […]
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The racial and gender ideologues who infiltrated and, at times, overtook American university life in the second and third decades of this century are rightly being criticized for distracting our institutions from their core mission of advancing knowledge. As a result, “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) is now in full retreat. But the Andrew W. […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of an article originally published on the author’s Substack Diogenes In Exile on January 20, 2025. With edits to fit MTC’s style, it is crossposted here with permission. The political stage is set. State and federal congresses are back in session, and a new presidential term begins. But […]
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We definitely need to rein it in, and a stem-to-stern housecleaning definitely is in order, but the Department of Education (ED) is a necessary evil that we need to keep for three reasons. First, the department generates a lot of valuable statistics, such as the annual National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Often called “the […]
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