Science™ is fighting back! In case you were worried. The final straw was the National Institutes of Health (NIH) decreeing in February that indirect cost reimbursements on research grants would henceforth be cut to about 25 percent of their current rate. Hard to see what the complaint is there. Indirect costs mostly fuel administrative bloat, […]
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Secretary Peter Hegseth’s first order to the Department of Defense promised “a focus on lethality, meritocracy, accountability, standards, and readiness.” To the extent that the Service Academies—West Point, Annapolis, the Air Force Academy, the Coast Guard Academy, and the Merchant Marine Academy—take this directive seriously, they should end athletic admissions. Such a move would change […]
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I would have thought that one of the primary jobs of our universities would be to conserve and explore the great works of Western Civilization, and, further, to introduce these great works to students. But five decades of teaching and research at one of North America’s great universities have disabused me of such imaginings. Western […]
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As professionals in the education sector, we have a responsibility to ensure that our students receive a quality education during their time at university. Financial education is rarely part of a course curriculum, but for those of us who are passionate about supporting learners in reaching their full potential, a lesson in financial concerns is […]
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In 2023, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) canceled an accepted session from their annual conference: “Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Why biological sex remains a necessary analytic category in anthropology.” AAA’s decision, phrased in today’s academic jargon, was explicitly political. AAA President Ramona Pérez, writing jointly with President Monica Heller of the Canadian Anthropological Society, […]
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In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, I was stunned as many of my peers—college juniors, no less—freaked out upon hearing that Trump had beaten Kamala Harris. On my campus, female students, in particular, voiced fears that their rights, especially access to abortion, would be immediately stripped away. Their fear was palpable, but what […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by American Thinker on March 20, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. The gang of lower court judges that is interfering with President Trump’s executive responsibilities is not unique. It is hard to find a judge who can separate politics and law, or […]
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There has been major controversy and uncertainty in higher education circles about the future of considering race on campuses. After every major Supreme Court decision, opponents will seek to minimize the ruling, while supporters will seek to expand it. So, the rules have not been clear. The day the Supreme Court decided Students for Fair […]
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Albright College is a traditional liberal arts college in Reading, Pennsylvania, that is in deep financial trouble. Reading itself is an old industrial town with fewer people today than a century ago, with relatively low average incomes. Pennsylvania has had a number of college mergers and consolidations, including a number of public regional universities. Like […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the author on X on March 22, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. Much in the news the past few days is the turnaround at Columbia University over the Trump administration’s pulling $400 million of federal grants and contracts unless […]
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Gun safety doesn’t only have to be a topic for lawmakers and law enforcement. It’s a subject that, over the last several years, has been integrating its way into classrooms and university halls all over the United States. Since there have been several gun-related incidents that have grabbed headlines and put safety concerns on everyone’s […]
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On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry gave his “Give me liberty or give me death” speech at the Second Virginia Convention, in favor of a resolution that Virginia form a militia to oppose King George’s tyranny. Moderates at the convention were somewhat reluctant to go on record saying explicitly that George was a tyrant who must […]
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On March 22, 1775, Edmund Burke delivered one of his great Parliamentary orations on Conciliation with America. Britain and America were rushing to war, and Burke pulled out the stops to make an extraordinary peroration for peace. Britain’s current policy was worse than unjust—it was doomed to fail. Peace must be achieved, argued Burke, by […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Law & Liberty on March 21, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. College athletics have been undergoing rapid change over the past five years. One of the most significant changes involves policies surrounding “NIL,” a shorthand for name, image, and […]
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In an article for Slate, Joel Swanson, a newly hired professor of Jewish Studies at Sarah Lawrence College (SLC), selectively presents only part of the story regarding the college’s response to the wave of anti-Semitism that swept SLC following Hamas’s October 7 massacre in Israel. No surprise to me, Swanson uses the piece to argue […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by American Greatness on March 21, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. On Friday, March 14, Trump‘s Education Department announced an investigation into more than 50 colleges and universities for their continuation of racial preferences despite the Supreme Court’s 2023 opinion in Students for Fair Admissions […]
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By the end of the day, President Trump is expected to sign a long-anticipated executive order (EO) that will kickstart the process of closing the Department of Education (ED)—a move he has promised since launching his 2024 campaign, citing decades of bureaucratic waste and rising federal spending in Washington, which have failed to yield any […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the College Fix on March 17, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. A U.S. Department of Justice decision to deport a Brown University professor based on alleged ties to Muslim terrorists has sparked mixed reactions from academics online. Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a […]
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The majority of students on college campuses currently are members of Generation Z (Gen Z). They are adults, born between 1997 and 2012, and the most stressed cohort to ever embark on their journey through higher education. They are reporting “the highest stress levels of any generation in the country,” according to the American Psychological […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the College Fix on March 19, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. Michigan State University (MSU) recently opened a $38 million Multicultural Center to act as a “sanctuary” for “minorities” with rooms designated for “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) student groups. An […]
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Robert Reich, one of the left’s favorite economists, has long promoted public hysteria against tax rate cuts, peddling rage against the so-called “trickle-down” theory. Reich, who was trained in law, philosophy, politics, and economics at some of the world’s most prestigious institutions, including Oxford and Yale, recently reminded his 3.8 million followers on Facebook: [T]rickle-down […]
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Can a conversation be a crime? That’s the question at the heart of Chiles v. Salazar, a case the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear on March 10. Kaley Chiles, a counselor in Colorado, argues that state law unconstitutionally restricts what she can say in therapy sessions about sexual orientation and gender identity. The law […]
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In a recent article for the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), Samuel G. Freedman, a respected journalist and professor at Columbia University, turned his attention to Kevin Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation. Ostensibly a critique of Roberts, “The Inconvenient Scholarship of Kevin Roberts” inadvertently reveals more insight into the author’s perspective than that […]
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Shifting student loans from the current government-as-lender model to the private market would be beneficial. As I recently reported, this shift would reduce malinvestment—educational spending that doesn’t justify its costs—while increasing accountability for colleges, improving incentives for both students and institutions, and fostering more informed decision-making through price differences. But privatization is a broad bucket. […]
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The Department of Education (ED) is a bloated bureaucracy feeding off taxpayer dollars and far removed from understanding school districts’ needs. A new report, Waste Land: The Department’s Profligacy, Mediocrity, and Radicalism, lays out exactly where the Trump administration should cut, reallocate, or eliminate wasteful programs. One case study in the report proves what conservatives […]
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Texas universities, similar to Iowa’s Public Schools, maintain affirmative action plans, likely in noncompliance with state legislation, recent executive orders, and the Department of Education’s (ED) latest Dear Colleague letter. Passed in late 2023, Texas’s Senate Bill 17 specifically banned “policies or procedures designed or implemented in reference to race, color, or ethnicity.” Affirmative action plans directly contradict this, mandating race-based “strategies” […]
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In graduate school, up-and-coming academics can dream about conducting interviews and focus groups in a foreign language in some hot and far-away locale. It does not always work out this way. You go where the information can be found. In confronting the elemental challenge of integrating classical education with artificial intelligence (AI), I decided to […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on March 17, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Many of America’s large corporations are beating a retreat from their former commitments to saving the planet from catastrophic climate change. They are also […]
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There’s been a lot of chatter around recent cuts to the Department of Education (ED) since President Trump announced a 50 percent reduction in the ED’s task force. On the left, teachers and administrators worry that a dip in funding will disproportionately affect low-income and disabled students, citing an unclear future when it comes to […]
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