4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (720+ words) As more than two million students enrolled in college this fall, many others chose not to. Instead, more and more young people are turning away from the traditional college model and toward alternatives such as apprenticeships, technical programs, and the…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (607+ words) An Award for Unpopular Truth Minding The Campus Image by JohnKwan on Adobe; Asset ID#: 54417417 An Award for Unpopular Truth The powerful Woke Supremacy that has dominated American academic life in modern times has had many detrimental effects, but perhaps…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (350+ words) Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the National Association of Scholars on September 4, 2026. It is crossposted here with permission. The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have proposed federal regulations that would strip federal tax exemption from…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (208+ words) “UA Flight 175 hits WTC south tower 9-11” on Wikimedia Commons How different it has been for those who grew up in the shadow of 9/11. I was an administrator at Boston University, working for the president. At 9:00 each Tuesday morning, all the…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (182+ words) Image by Andrew Parfenov on Adobe; Asset ID#: 120718122 In an upcoming episode of Café Berlin, Lilla Nora Kiss and I are joined by Anne Bradley, the George and Sally Mayer Fellow for Economic Education and Academic Director at the Fund…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (449+ words) Image: “Berkeley: UC Berkeley – Sproul Hall” by Wally Gobetz on Flickr Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the College Fix on August 31, 2026. It is crossposted here with permission. Minor edits have been made to conform to Minding the Campus’s…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (353+ words) Art by Beck & Stone In December 2024, I began editing a series for the National Association of Scholars that we eventually came to call The Road to the American Revolution. The aim was to retrace the events that led to July…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (439+ words) I wish colleges would commit themselves to neutrality, open inquiry, and intellectual diversity. I have argued for years that this is the best model for higher education and that it puts schools on the path toward finding truth. Many colleges,…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (1787+ words) Jeremy Wayne Tate; Image from LinkedIn I recently sat down with Jeremy to discuss the origins of the CLT, the history of standardized testing, the crisis facing higher education, and why the great books still affect us today. 1. What gaps…...