The American university is in distress. Enrollment is declining, tenure is disappearing, administrative costs are ballooning, and public trust in academia is eroding. More concerning, however, is the deeper structural crisis that has transformed universities from bastions of knowledge into battlegrounds of ideological warfare and administrative overreach. At the heart of this crisis lies a […]
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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 10, 2025. With edits to fit MTC’s style, it is crossposted here with permission. What if accreditors were directly accountable to the people their standards affected the most, students? It would be so much […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on June 25, 2025. 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. San Jose State University Elizabeth Weiss, a physical anthropologist and professor […]
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