Author: Chance Layton

Chance Layton is an Editor at Minding the Campus. He is also the Director of Communications at the National Association of Scholars.

The Next President Should . . .

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the National Association of Scholars on November 4, 2024, and is crossposted here with permission. Higher education has lurched from crisis to crisis over the past five years. The COVID-19 pandemic kept many would-be students from attending college while seriously straining university budgets. Colleges continue to face demographic declines, with one million […]

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Does In-Person Instruction Violate Academic Freedom?

In the twilight of the second year of the COVID pandemic, hysteria continues to run amok. While many folks have gotten on with their lives thanks to vaccines or natural immunities, many others continue to live in fear and demand ever more protections and state interventions. My favorite excuse yet for the “new normal” comes […]

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