Peter Wood Archives — Minding The Campus

September 8, 2026

While Memory Remains

A time will come when 9/11 belongs to history rather than memory.
August 19, 2026

How Safe Is New York City?

Mayor Mamdani has big ideas for destroying the city. Thankfully, the Bowdoin College grad has no idea how to carry them out.
August 13, 2026

Jason Arday and the Dukes and Dauphins of DEI

How Cambridge fell for an academic fabulist.
August 5, 2026

Seven Questions for a Failing System

Colleges would be wise to answer Secretary Linda McMahon’s questions.
August 5, 2026

A Museum Under a Spell

Officials insist the National Museum of American History is free of ideology despite extensive evidence to the contrary.
August 3, 2026

A Steel Spine Lies Hidden Beneath Too Many Feathers

The Vanderbilt Report correctly diagnoses the humanities’ ideological crisis but stops short of the reforms needed to restore public trust.
July 31, 2026

They Took Up the Hatchet

In July 1776…
July 24, 2026

Wit’s End

A century ago, Gideon Wurdz’s joke book allegedly sold nearly 200,000 copies. Today almost no one remembers his name. Here’s hoping today’s fashionable ideas are just as forgettable.
July 14, 2026

Has the Smithsonian Abandoned History?

The White House offers a detailed indictment of the museum’s embrace of activism.
July 13, 2026

Who Trains China’s Defense Personnel?

A private intelligence firm details how Missouri State University became a training ground for China’s defense industry.
June 30, 2026

HUD Takes Aim at Racially Segregated Campus Housing

The proposed guidance is an overdue step toward ending one of higher education’s most entrenched forms of racial segregation.
June 17, 2026

Against the Boneless Wonders

The purpose of civics education is not merely to teach citizens how government works, but to cultivate the courage to defend the republic.
June 11, 2026

Bill Gates’s Education Problem

The billionaire philanthropist helped reshape American education. The results are difficult to celebrate.
June 10, 2026

What Does ‘Civilization’ Mean?

The word is hard to define, but too important to abandon.
May 11, 2026

What Happened to ‘Do No Harm’?

Modern medicine’s expanding definition of health is shaking its ethical foundations.
April 30, 2026

I’m Grading Like I Mean It

Yale says the right things about trust but cannot bring itself to act on them.
April 29, 2026

How the SPLC Impoverished Higher Education

Through partnerships and cultural influence the SPLC normalized deplatforming and weakened academic debate.
April 27, 2026

Another Painful Moment in the Lopsided Decline of American Higher Education

An overbuilt system faces declining demand, financial strain, and growing uncertainty about the value of a degree.
April 21, 2026

Commencement Politics Are Back

With no Trump officials invited, campuses signal a return to ideological comfort.
April 21, 2026

Disenrollment

Higher education’s lopsided decline.
March 4, 2026

A Cancelled Professor Wrote a Thriller

After being driven out of academia, Scott Gerber turned his legal insight into a thriller drawn from the darkest corners of modern crime.
February 27, 2026

Maximum Damage, Minimum Cost

On February 27, 1776…
February 18, 2026

The Community College Reinvents Itself—Again

The latest evolution of a century-old experiment may reshape competition—and standards—in higher education.
February 9, 2026

An Ivy League President Breaks Ranks

Could a rare moment of candor change how elite universities respond to public skepticism?
February 6, 2026

Day After Day

The National Association of Scholars calendar revels in the unexpected.
January 28, 2026

Universities Push Sanctuary Campus Agenda for Illegal Immigrants

Illegal migrant enrollment helps universities meet demographic thresholds associated with preferential public funding.
January 21, 2026

A Market Test

Degrees that don’t deliver face a federal cutoff—just as the job market grows less forgiving.
December 18, 2025

Don’t Mistake Enrollment Gains for Renewed Confidence
December 17, 2025

What the New International Enrollment Drop Really Shows
December 10, 2025

A Small Act of Thievery in Vermont