At sunrise on April 19, 1775, about 80 American townsmen in Lexington, Massachusetts, filed out of Buckman Tavern onto Lexington Green. They were commanded by French and Indian War veteran John Parker. Parker was restrained. His words were, “Stand your ground; don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let […]
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On April 16, 2025, Nicholas Decker, a PhD student at George Mason University (GMU), published a Substack essay titled “When Must We Kill Them?,” which calls for violence against President Donald Trump and his administration. Decker, who identifies as a liberal and open-borders advocate in his X bio, bases much of his argument on Trump’s […]
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Consider the question, “How can the resurrection of Jesus change higher education?” From a Christian standpoint, the resurrection of Jesus Christ has already changed higher education. In fact, the Christian vision for life and learning decisively inspired the idea of a university, starting in medieval Europe through cathedral and monastery schools. Without the resurrection, there […]
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Of course, Paul Revere was a hero as he rowed and rode to alarm the countryside around Boston: “The British are coming! The British are coming!” (“The Regulars are coming out,” the staid historians tell us were his actual words.) So too were the much neglected William Dawes and Samuel Prescott. We owe our independence and our liberty to their pluck and bravery. […]
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President Trump recently signed Executive Order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” taking aim at the Smithsonian museums for curating exhibits that twist and disparage American history. The order states: [T]he Smithsonian Institution has, in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology. This shift has promoted narratives that portray American and Western […]
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Author’s Note: This article is from my weekly “Top of Mind” email, sent to subscribers every Thursday. For more content like this and to receive the full newsletter each week, enter your name and email under “SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ‘TOP OF MIND,’” located on the right-hand side of the site. I’d rather dodge […]
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As student visas continue to be revoked, many left-leaning news outlets and writers have expressed wariness of Trump’s motivations. They characterize the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which the Trump Administration has used as a basis to revoke student visas, as tendentious grounds for action and worse, creates a climate that echoes McCarthyism. The […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on April 10, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. A new Catholic trade school called the College of Saint Joseph the Worker recently opened in Steubenville, Ohio, to train students “in skilled […]
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Harvard University and the Trump Administration have collided. The Crimson reports that: Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, University President Alan M. Garber ’76 announced in a message to affiliates Monday afternoon. The sequence of events suggests […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on The College Fix on April 10, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Texas stands at a crossroads with two companion bills winding their way through the Lone Star Statehouse that aim to reform accreditation by […]
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President Trump’s Department of Education (ED) has targeted colleges and universities that fail to protect Jewish students’ civil rights and others that embrace “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies. Some universities have bowed to at least some of his concerns, others have vowed to fight him, and still others are trying to look compliant while […]
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Editor’s Note: The following excerpt was originally published by the National Association of Scholars on April 15, 2025. It has been edited to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines and is cross-posted here with permission. The news this morning is, as one headline puts it, “Federal Government Freezes $2.26 Billion Funding to Harvard after It Refuses to Comply.” […]
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The world has entered a new era of Great Power competition, where civilizational and regional blocks are coalescing to create large spaces of economic, trade, and military influence. Leaders and experts worldwide have termed this the new era of multipolarity. The political, economic, and technological systems of the West have been hybridized and fused by […]
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The transition into college is a pivotal time, filled with new opportunities, challenges, and responsibilities. However, with the stress of academic study, financial pressures, and social adjustments, it’s no surprise that mental health concerns among college students are on the rise. According to a Healthy Minds survey, more than 60 percent of college students have […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by RealClear Education on April 10, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Last week, the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) wrapped up their “Week of Rage,” a week-long series of programs intended to intimidate and threaten those unsupportive […]
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Editor’s Note: The following excerpt is from the author’s latest book, DEI Exposed: How the Biggest Con of the Century Almost Toppled Higher Education. It has been edited to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines and is cross-posted here with permission. One of the best assessments of the popular racialist fictioneer Ta-Nehisi Coates was delivered […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on April 9, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Since the 1997 founding of Western Governors University (WGU), a private, nonprofit institution developed to pioneer so-called competency-based education (CBE), a growing number of […]
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This essay has two parts. The first part painted a collective portrait of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) staff through the books they recommended for others. Here, I offer personal thoughts on what should constitute common reading for those who, like me, believe our society would thrive if more of us engaged with a […]
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This essay has two parts. First, it offers a collective portrait of the people who work for the National Association of Scholars (NAS) through the lens of the books they think other people should read. Whether that portrait will interest a broader audience, I don’t know, but it interests me not just because the seventeen […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on The College Fix on April 10, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. A University of Cincinnati professor has more money from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create a transgender voice training app. The National […]
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Moments of faith are not always somber and public. Often, they are funny and reveal God’s loving smirk. Once, when studying koine Greek for my doctorate in theology, I came across a bad computer translation of the New Testament that rendered the Greek word for the Gospel, “evangelion,” (εὐαγγέλιον) as “valid data stream.” During the […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the soon-to-be-published National Association of Scholars report, Rescuing Science. It has been edited to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines and is cross-posted here with permission. Recently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) proposed that indirect costs rates (administrative overheads) on research grants from the NIH […]
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The federal government wants some changes at Harvard. The most dangerous request is: Merit-based admissions reform. Harvard must adopt and implement merit-based admissions policies; cease all preferences based on race, color, or national origin in admissions throughout its undergraduate, graduate, and other programs; and demonstrate through structural and personnel action that these changes are durable. […]
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Author’s Note: This article is from my weekly “Top of Mind” email, sent to subscribers every Thursday. For more content like this and to receive the full newsletter each week, enter your name and email under “SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ‘TOP OF MIND,’” located on the right-hand side of the site. On March 27, […]
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In business, when something is overproduced, it gets discounted in a “clearance sale” or abandoned, scrapped, put in storage, or “mothballed.” Old manufacturing plants close down, they are absorbed, they may merge, or get replaced with something entirely new, due to obsolescence and new technology. In environmental management, pollution can be controlled by stopping it […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the soon-to-be-published National Association of Scholars report, Rescuing Science. It has been edited to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines and is cross-posted here with permission. Indirect costs are a hot topic right now, set off by the Trump administration floating a proposal for the National […]
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I have previously reported through two Minding the Campus articles (here and here) that the National Science Foundation (NSF) director, Sethuraman Panchanathan, published a paper through the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) that copied an uncited source previously published through the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In addition to copying from IEEE for […]
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Artificial intelligence’s (AI) presence in higher education should be no surprise. Nor should it be surprising that its presence is expanding with both known and unknown consequences. Some people express concern about degrading students’ skillsets as a result of reliance on the organization and presentation of data trained in AI models. Faculty also express concern […]
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The first thing that one needs to understand about the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) is that it exists in its own dimension of reality. It’s called “Planet UMass” for a reason. The second thing that one needs to understand is that much as federal law supersedes state law, university policy supersedes all laws, and […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the College Fix on April 9, 2024. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. While the University of Michigan (UMich) leadership recently announced its plans to roll back “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programming, it may face resistance from its own faculty. […]
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