I’ve been a donor to FIRE since 2007, but I’m no longer convinced by its diagnosis or treatment plan for the dire illness afflicting U.S. higher education. The diagnosis attributes the malady to (1) overprotective parenting and (2) teenage addiction to smartphones and social media, which have produced a generation of anxious, depressed, and fragile […]
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The NCAA transfer portal, originally intended to provide athletes with greater freedom, has evolved into a chaotic free agency system with significant consequences for academics and team dynamics. While the portal empowers athletes to escape unfavorable situations or seek better opportunities, it often undermines their educational progress. Many student-athletes struggle with credit transfers, delayed graduations, […]
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America’s legacy elite colleges continue to lose reputation in the public eye. Today’s example is Sarah Lawrence College, where intolerance for heterodoxy is part of the culture. Fortunately, civil rights have been vindicated, if only in a small way, at the college. The story begins in October 2018, when professor Samuel Abrams described the college […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the College Fix on November 8, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. President Donald Trump has a second chance to enforce a little-known federal law that will treat legal American citizens as equal to illegal migrants. The “Illegal Immigration Reform and […]
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