Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published PJ Media on February 7, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. No, the Red-Green coalition is not a political alliance between members of the Republican Party and the environmental catastrophists of the Green Party. Republicans do not accept that […]
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It has been over a month since the second Trump administration took office, and clearly the president is serious about reducing spending. DEI programs have been discontinued, and many grants to non-government organizations have been halted. Thousands of government employees have been laid off. One target of the cutbacks has been grants for scientific research. […]
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The racial and gender ideologues who infiltrated and, at times, overtook American university life in the second and third decades of this century are rightly being criticized for distracting our institutions from their core mission of advancing knowledge. As a result, “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) is now in full retreat. But the Andrew W. […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of an article originally published on the author’s Substack Diogenes In Exile on January 20, 2025. With edits to fit MTC’s style, it is crossposted here with permission. The political stage is set. State and federal congresses are back in session, and a new presidential term begins. But […]
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We definitely need to rein it in, and a stem-to-stern housecleaning definitely is in order, but the Department of Education (ED) is a necessary evil that we need to keep for three reasons. First, the department generates a lot of valuable statistics, such as the annual National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Often called “the […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on January 2, 2023. It was translated into English from French by the Observatory before being edited to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. It is crossposted here with permission. The phenomenon known as “woke” or “wokism” is international: initially developed […]
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President Trump’s ban on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programs in the federal government and his firing of the boards of visitors of the four military service academies suggest receptivity to broad reforms of Department of Defense (DoD) educational institutions that could eventually benefit American colleges and universities generally. These reforms should include limits on […]
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Described as a man who “always projected ‘moral and ethical rectitude,’” esteemed mid-1800s glacial geologist Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin once made a profound statement at the 1888 University of Michigan Annual Commencement: “Falsity in intellectual action is intellectual immorality.” This statement appears to ring ever truer when one considers recent trends in 21st-century science. Before diving […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the Times of Israel on February 18, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. “It is time to escalate for Palestine,” wrote Bowdoin College’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). In early February, 50 SJP students occupied Bowdoin’s Smith Union, the […]
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For the past month, I have been wrestling with questions that have yet to yield clear and satisfactory answers. For one, should an academic degree be considered a prerequisite for gainful employment? And is the labor market destined to rely exclusively—if at all—on academia as its primary job-training mechanism? Though not easily resolvable, these questions […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the College Fix on February 24, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. Princeton University students can learn about “Investigative Theater for a Changing Climate” this spring. Students will create “an original work of theater” by “pursuing a creative inquiry into some aspect […]
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In his monumental work Culture and Anarchy, 19th-century poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold laid out a novel curriculum that would revolutionize educational spaces in the coming century. Based on the Ancient Greek system of classical education, Arnold’s ambitious scheme envisioned the university as the center of cultural education—the cornerstone for understanding ourselves and the […]
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From 1636, when Harvard was founded, to about 2010, college enrollments in America tended to rise constantly, with minor disruptions, reflecting increased demand for higher education largely arising from population and economic growth. At the beginning of the American Revolution, fewer than one of every 2,500 colonial Americans attended college. By 2010, the proportion of […]
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Whether you believe Donald Trump is a victim of lawfare or fear that his appointees will engage in it, one thing is clear: Americans are losing faith in our institutions to deliver justice, and for good reason. Law is no longer just a tool for ensuring fairness; it has become a weapon for those in […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of an article originally published on the author’s Substack Diogenes In Exile on January 13, 2025. With edits to fit MTC’s style, it is crossposted here with permission. Over the last few months, I embarked on a sobering project: examining the textbooks used to train future therapists. Specifically, […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by PJ Media on February 11, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Cultural anthropologists venture out into the world beyond the university to study and try to understand people and their cultures, often distant geographically and different in […]
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The newly released Deep-Seek artificial intelligence (AI) program, which is manufactured, owned, and operated within the sovereign bounds of the People’s Republic of China, has disrupted technology markets across the globe and raised new questions in the foreign policy fields of Great Power Competition. An often overlooked aspect of this newly emergent technology, however, is […]
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It is easy to assume that the authors of Don’t Go To College: A Case For Revolution (2022) would be anti-intellectuals who never darkened a university’s doors and are jealous of anyone who did. Ah, but not so fast. Michael J. Robillard and Timothy J. Gordon were in the “belly of the beast” as students, […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on February 5, 2025. It was translated into English from French by the Observatory before being edited to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. It is crossposted here with permission. The contemporary period, which has been described as hypermodern, produces identity […]
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