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Democrats Outnumber Republicans 5 to 1 as Commencement Speakers

Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on May 14, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Democrats will outnumber Republicans as commencement speakers at the nation’s top 100 universities, according to a College Fix analysis. The College Fix looked for the main undergraduate ceremony speaker for […]

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Anti-Discrimination EO Spurs APA to Drop DEI Standards

The Commission on Accreditation (CoA) of the American Psychological Association (APA) released a memo a few weeks ago to inform clinical psychology programs of their decision “to immediately and temporarily suspend evaluation of programs for compliance with several specific accreditation standards. The suspended standards are those related to faculty and student program actions in the […]

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Father and Son Challenge Four Universities Over Anti-Asian Admissions Discrimination

Representing ourselves, my son and I just filed lawsuits against the University of California, the University of Washington, the University of Michigan, and Cornell for discriminating against Asian Americans in their admissions. The LA Times, Fox News, and New York Post covered our lawsuits. In short, at age 18, co-plaintiff Stanley Zhong was hired by […]

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National Association of Scholars Notches a Win for Civil Rights in Illinois

As part of the National Association of Scholars’s (NAS) ongoing reporting on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), I’ve been FOIAing DEI practices—scholarships, fellowships, hiring programs, trainings, strategic plans, etc.—and in August, I came across a massive DEI hiring program, the Diversifying Higher Education Faculty Initiative (DFI).  The DFI is a faculty hiring program that discriminates […]

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Pro-Palestinian Protesters Storm Columbia’s Butler Library, Clash with NYPD Amid Anti-Semitism Crackdown

In a development highlighting the continued aggression of the pro-Palestinian movement at Columbia, over 100 pro-Palestinian protesters wearing kaffiyahs and hiding their identities with masks stormed Columbia University’s Butler Library yesterday, remaining until the evening before being forced out by the NYPD. The incident came despite efforts on the part of the Columbia administration to […]

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