Ohio State University (OSU) has announced an all-encompassing artificial intelligence (AI) program for its undergraduate class of 2029. Launching this fall for first-year students, Ohio State’s AI Fluency initiative will embed AI education into the core of every undergraduate curriculum, equipping students with the ability to not only use AI tools, but to understand, question […]
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Imagine a board run by your competitors who decide whether you’re allowed to work. That is the process of licensing. Rebecca Haw Allensworth’s The Licensure Racket opens with the story of Omar Mahmoud, a 52-year-old Army veteran, Arabic-speaking immigrant, and licensed barber. After moving to Tennessee, he hoped to continue the career he had pursued […]
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Author’s Note: July 2025 will mark the centenary of the famous Tennessee “Scopes Monkey Trial.” This is the third article in a series leading up to the centennial events in Dayton, Tennessee, the site of the trial. Read the first in the series here and the second here. In the 1925 Dayton Monkey Trial, it […]
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The intense anti-Semitic environment that has been allowed to flourish at Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) and has even been promoted by its president, Cristle Collins Judd, has rightfully drawn the attention of members of Congress, federal agencies, and the press. SLC has become an increasingly hostile place for Zionist and Jewish students, with open calls […]
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The Continental Congress appointed George Washington Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army on June 19, 1775. Washington did not think he was qualified for the job. It’s not like any other part of the Patriot resistance was ready for war. Washington was off to lead a bunch of Massachusetts farmers who trained part-time. There were a […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on RealClear Education on June 5, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. For generations, my Russian family’s Jewish identity was systematically silenced. When we immigrated to Boca Raton, Florida, it felt like beginning a new chapter—one […]
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Congress is weighing the possibility of creating “Workforce Pell.” Those would be Pell Grants, not for college students, but for individuals who want to enroll in short-term programs aimed at credentialing them for immediate employment. The idea is attractive to those of us who believe that far too many young people are lured into college […]
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Two of my great-great-grandfathers left Maine in the “fight to make men free”—one came back without his foot, and the other died in “Hospital, Washington;” we don’t even know where he was buried. Ending the horrible evil of slavery should be celebrated, but June 19, 1865, is neither the day it ended nor one significant […]
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A previous Minding the Campus article reported apparent plagiarism in an article by Sethuraman Panchanathan, the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Panchanathan’s article was published by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), but it copied extensively, without citation or quotation marks or copyright permission, from an article copyrighted by the Institute of Electrical […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on April 22, 2025. The Observatory translated it into English from French. I have edited it, to the best of my ability, to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. It is crossposted here with permission. We read the remarkable work […]
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The University of Virginia (UVA) is currently under investigation by the federal government because its administration is attempting to maintain its illegal “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) regime in secret after the Board of Visitors voted in March to dismantle it. The administration is also stonewalling the Board’s April resolution, which called for more viewpoint […]
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Today’s college students are more anxious and depressed than ever. A study by the Healthy Minds Network revealed that 38 percent of students in 2023–24 reported symptoms of depression, including loss of enjoyment and persistent feelings of hopelessness. In response, universities have ramped up mental health messaging—through emails, workshops, and mindfulness events—urging students to prioritize […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on June 6, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. “Hate speech” and other conduct should be further policed by Michigan State University (MSU), according to the campus Black Student Alliance. The activist […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by RealClear Education on June 16, 2025. It has been edited to match MTC’s style guidelines and is crossposted here with permission. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will soon sign a bill that will empower the appointed governing boards of Texas public universities with greater oversight of the institutions under their charge. This comes at […]
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June 17, 1775, was considered for generations of Americans after the date an “ignominious defeat.” The colonists had executed a brilliant stealth maneuver. Overnight, they had erected fortifications on a hill across the Charles River from Boston and had taken the British forces under Generals Gage and Howe by surprise. A battle ensued; in the […]
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[B]y its very existence, [mathematics] poses a serious threat to their entire world view that there is no such thing as objective truth and what they have to say on any subject is just as valid as what anyone else says. Imagine a baseball field with a ball resting on the ground. Two teams come […]
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As a history PhD, I’m used to hearing that I should have studied STEM (science, technology, engineering, or math) instead. We humanities graduates often retort that our skills are underappreciated, but our arguments ring hollow in the face of a difficult job market. Facing this reality, ambitious students rapidly abandoned arts majors throughout the 2000s, […]
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“Anyone who looks through enough statistics will eventually find numbers that seem to confirm a given vision.” — Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed In the ideological universe of moralistic warriors fighting against injustices operating on group characteristics, disparity always means discrimination, while correlation is definitely causation. The propensity for confirmation biases is so […]
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On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress took its first bold step toward becoming a nation: it created a national army. Until then, each colony had relied on its own militia. But after the violent clashes at Lexington and Concord, it was clear that isolated efforts wouldn’t be enough. A unified defense would require […]
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