Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on May 2, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Capitalism is an “oppressive system” that is “incredibly difficult to survive,” a financial coach said during a recent lecture at Iowa State University. […]

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A century ago, student dormitories were supervised by faculty who lived in the buildings, a tradition that remains at Harvard, Yale, and elite prep schools such as Phillips Andover. The sheer number of veterans who arrived with the GI Bill after WWII forced most institutions to abandon this model—they just let the veterans run their […]

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In Episode 5 of The Week in Science, Scott Turner, Director of Science Programs at the National Association of Scholars, offers a timely critique of the growing media narrative around a so-called “Trump brain drain”—the claim that scientists are fleeing American institutions due to MAGA-led funding cuts. Turner says that what is actually driving scientists away […]

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I thought that we had hit rock bottom with English pedagogy when the National Council of Teachers of English proclaimed in 2022 that “the time has come to decenter book reading and essay writing as the pinnacles of English language arts education.” Nope. There’s a new plague on the rise in English classrooms, and it […]

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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on Law & Liberty on May 27, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. American higher education is characterized by many forms of tuition discounts, often called “scholarships.” Some of them are based on distinguished academic achievement, but often […]

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The Trump administration’s efforts to reform higher education have been met with increasing resistance from the higher education establishment. Indeed, arguably the most prestigious university of all—Harvard—sued the Trump administration in late-April for freezing over $2 billion in federal research funding because Harvard refused to comply with a list of conditions for the continued receipt […]

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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on American Greatness on April 24, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. On April 8, the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, did something unusual: it found and showcased bright spots in American higher education. Such hidden […]

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In this first episode of our new podcast, VAS News Chat, I join Teresa Manning, Policy Director at the National Association of Scholars and President of its Virginia affiliate, for a deep dive into my recent article, “America’s Obsession with Diplomas Is Killing Opportunity,” in which I argue that credentials have become an illegitimate precondition […]

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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on May 30, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. A doctoral student at the University of Nebraska (NU) recently orchestrated a drag performance appropriating the Catholic Mass for the final recital of his musical degree. The […]

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On Wednesday, May 21, 2025, Professor Kenneth Moss, one of the University of Chicago’s (UChicago) more prominent Jewish historians and a Yiddishist, presided over the anti-Semitism roundtable held at the Franke Institute for the Humanities in Regenstein Library. The room was nearly packed when the roundtable began, with students and faculty attending from all over […]

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