Recent Articles

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.

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......

DEI Isn't Dead

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

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.

Most Recent from Minding The Campus

Columbia’s Apology Faux Pas, Seen from France

Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on September 23, 2023. It was translated into English from French by the Observatory before bein......

SJP’s 'Week of Rage' Fails to Sway Public Opinion on Hamas and Israel

Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by RealClear Education on April 10, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permissio......

Reports

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......

Shadows of Influence

Foreign funding of American universities remains an open secret. This report details the underreporting of foreign gifts to universities by analyzing a complementary database compiled using public rec......

CounterCurrent


April 8, 2025

DEI Isn't Dead

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

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April 1, 2025

NAS, Coming to a Legislator Near You

NAS education reform efforts make their way around the nation in a slew of recent legislation....

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March 25, 2025

The Future of Federal Student Loans

The Trump administration’s decision to move the federal student loan portfolio to the Small Business Administration is being met with controversy....

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Statements

NAS-Influenced Ohio Senate Bill 1 Becomes Law

Ohio Senate Bill 1 will invigorate higher education in Ohio and serve as a model of educational reform for the whole nation.

NAS Commends Trump Administration for Education Department Executive Order

Slash-and-burn is not enough: if it is to be closed forever, the Department of Education must be rooted out, statute by statute.

Press Releases

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.

Utah Adopts Legislation Inspired by the General Education Act

The new state law estabilishes a new "Center for Civic Excellence at Utah State University" to offer students courses in Western civilization and American civics rooted in the principles of cl......

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.