Recent Articles

Scholars Expose Compelled Speech in the Colleges and Universities

This latest report chronicles and quantifies the persistent commitment to "diversity, equity, and inclusion" by colleges and universities in their hiring practices—popularized......

VIDEO: Fulfilling the Trust: College Trustee Leadership in a New Era

Listen in as NAS Director of Research David Randall joins a panel of higher education experts in this event put on by AEI.

NAS Endorses Arkansas House Bill 1696

Arkansas HB 1696 establishes the principle that a state university should have a core curriculum. Arkansas will join the state leaders of education reform in America when it passes this bill.

Reform. Like It or Not.

Sweeping reform measures are under way for higher education, will they last?

Most Recent from Minding The Campus

Libertarians Are the Rare Political Tribe That Is Undecided About the Trump Administration’s Strings on Federal Funding for Universities

Scarcely a week goes by lately without news that another university has had federal funding restricted by the Trump administration. The Wall Street Journal recounts that latest restrictions: “Harvard......

Activist Pseudodisciplines Are a Parasite—The Program Review Act Is the Extraction Tool

The University of Oklahoma offers a Social Justice Minor, which “introduce[s] students to the complexities of structural inequalities and injustices while teaching students critical thought processes.......

Reports

Ideological Insistence

This report chronicles and quantifies the persistent commitment to "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) in higher education hiring practices. Ideological Insistence quantifies the pre......

Waste Land

This report sheds a new light on the history of the U.S. Department of Education (ED), its abuses of policy, and recommendations for a path forward. The report's evidence, and the long-term politi......

Instagram the Intifada

This report maps the organization, leadership, and affiliations of America's largest pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas student organizations—Students for Justice in Palestine. 

Shifting Sands: Report IV

Shifting Sands: Zombie Psychology examines the science underlying implicit bias theory. The report finds that many researchers and legislators believe policies based on this theory are harmful. M......

CounterCurrent


April 22, 2025

Reform. Like It or Not.

Sweeping reform measures are under way for higher education, will they last?...

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April 15, 2025

Higher Ed Digs In, Refuses Reform

Though higher ed scoffs at Trump’s push to gut toxic campus ideologies, don’t expect change anytime soon....

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April 8, 2025

DEI Isn't Dead

Academia is pushing back against anti-DEI directives by the Trump administration....

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Statements

It's Time to Get Student Aid Back on Track

The U.S. Department of Education has announced plans to resume repayment plans and collections on student loans. We hope the administration uses this opportunity to also protect students from long-ter......

Fighting Harvard and the Other Cultural Warlords

The academic bureaucracies and professoriate are so deeply committed to their radical program of replacing American society with their own vision of a new order that we have no real choice but to figh......

Press Releases

Scholars Expose Compelled Speech in the Colleges and Universities

This latest report chronicles and quantifies the persistent commitment to "diversity, equity, and inclusion" by colleges and universities in their hiring practices—popularized......

Scholars Urge Senate to Pass DETERRENT Act

We are thankful to the House for its passage of the DETERRENT Act and strongly urge the Senate to take up and act on this critical legislation.

Events

Event: Ideological Insistence: Diversity Statements and the Challenge to Academic Freedom

Join us for a discussion at our New York City office on our new report Ideological Insistence and to hear from a panel of experts.

Event: Professors Speak Out

Join us to hear testimonies from Nicholas Wolfinger, Jason Kilborn, and Robert Froderman about their investigations into questionable campus probes.