Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from an article originally published by The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on January 31, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Higher education seemingly played an important, if largely negative, role in the recent presidential election. Exit polls showed […]
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Usage of artificial intelligence (AI) models is rapidly spreading in education. Students use them to help with their coursework, and teachers and faculty use them to help with lesson plans and research. To the extent that these models can act as a tutor for students or an assistant for teachers and faculty, they can be […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the College Fix on January 31, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. Professor Ibram Kendi and Boston University will shut down the Center for Antiracist Research on June 30 as the “antiracism” proponent moves to Howard University. Kendi will start a similar […]
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Aaron Sibarium at the Washington Free Beacon reports that Michigan State University (MSU) has swept aside charges that the dean of its College of Education, Jerlando Jackson, is a serial plagiarist. MSU’s actions appear to fall short of a formal exoneration, but the university’s student newspaper, State News, quotes a letter from the MSU president, […]
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The “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) ideology that has captured professors and administrators at most American universities has generated considerable discussion. But relatively untouched is the embrace of DEI by college and university librarians—and its implications. DEI ideologues’ quiet infiltration of university libraries distorts the literature that faculty and students read. This subtle and slow-acting […]
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