Recent Articles

Diversity Training, or "How to Throw Fuel on the Fire": An Interview

Professor Gilley describes his thoughts on a Washington legislative bill that would require public institutions of higher education to provide faculty, staff, and students with DEI training.

New Report Details Systemic Failure of College Finance, Proposes Reforms

Colleges and universities have facilitated a massive transfer of wealth from American families to higher education bureaucracies through rising tuition and student debt, finds a new report by the Nati...

California Inches Closer to Ethnic Studies Mayhem

California's Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum is set to be finalized and published on March 31. What will it cost students if it does indeed cross the finish line?

Tracking "Cancel Culture" in Higher Education

UPDATED 3/2/21: A repository of 128 administrators, professors, and students who have been "canceled" for expressing views deemed unacceptable by higher education ideologues.

Most Recent from Minding The Campus

Rush Limbaugh and the Free Speech Arc

Radio giant Rush Limbaugh’s death on February 17th after a battle with lung cancer has occasioned a moment of bittersweet reflection for free speech advocates and for those who share Limbaugh’s revere...

Work, Not Woke—Why on Race, U.S. Higher Education Should Copy the U.S. Army

Editor’s Note: This article is the last in a symposium on white fragility and its related concepts. To view all of the prior essays in this series, click here. On Race, the Best of Times and th...

Reports

Priced Out

As more Americans attend college, costs rise, and more students fail to graduate, we ask, "why?" Priced Out details the spending habits of 50 universities across America and provides...

Freedom to Learn

Freedom to Learn provides a guideline of 40 detailed suggestions for legislative reforms. These initiatives, if enacted by Congress, would encourage reform of America's costly, politicized, a...

Rebalancing the Narrative

Rebalancing the Narrative: Higher Education, Border Security, and Immigration discusses the various dimensions of immigration policy and suggests topics for debate. This report gives students and...

Disfigured History

Disfigured History: How the College Board Demolishes the Past details the careless, politicized history in the College Board's revisions of the Advanced Placement (AP) European, United States, and...

CounterCurrent


March 2, 2021

California Inches Closer to Ethnic Studies Mayhem

California's Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum is set to be finalized and published on March 31. What will it cost students if it does indeed cross the finish line?...

February 23, 2021

Want a Promotion? Join the Church of DEI.

The University of Utah Department of Physics & Astronomy has proposed a new faculty policy that would require professors to confess their faith in diversity, equity, and inclusion to be...

February 16, 2021

France Hangs Up Its No-Vacancy Sign

French politicians, intellectuals, and journalists are warning of the nefarious, radical-left ideologies originating on American campuses and causing divisions in their home country....

Statements

ED and DOS Issue Urgent Warning About Chinese Influence in American Schools

NAS commends the Education and State Depts. for issuing two joint letters urging American education leaders to investigate possible Chinese government influence in their schools.

Trump Orders No Federal Funding for CRT and Stereotyping

Last month, the president took two key actions affecting higher ed: a memorandum tackling Critical Race Theory and Executive Order 13950.

Press Releases

New Report Details Systemic Failure of College Finance, Proposes Reforms

Colleges and universities have facilitated a massive transfer of wealth from American families to higher education bureaucracies through rising tuition and student debt, finds a new report by the Nati...

Scholars Call for Biden to Reinstate Transparency for Confucius Institutes

President Biden has quietly withdrawn a Trump Administration policy proposal that would have required all colleges and K-12 schools to disclose any ties with Confucius Institutes.

Events

EVENT: Woke and Broke

Join the National Association of Scholars online or in-person on March 4th for the launch event of Priced Out: What College Costs America. The report details how universities and government polic...

Fringe History, Flawed Scholarship

Join the National Association of Scholars on February 3 at 2 pm ET for Fringe History, an event that will assemble notable scholars to comment on different aspects of Wood's 1620, the 1619 Project...