April 5, 2020
Article: Coronavirus and High School History
David Randall
What does COVID-19 have to do with high school history class? As it turns out, quite a lot.
July 1, 1996
Report: SUNY's Core Curricula
Empire Foundation for Policy ResearchNew York Association of Scholars
This survey of the core curricula at sixteen State University of New York campuses finds that students can avoid essential academic subjects while still meeting their degree requirements. This has led......
December 9, 2024
Statement: NAS Applauds the Passage of HR 5349, the Crucial Communism Teaching Act
National Association of Scholars
HR 5349 is a step in the right direction. The bill will ensure that students know about the tyrannical nature of Communist thought, the blood-stained history of Communist regimes, and the in......
November 26, 2024
MTC: The Party of the Well-Educated Offers the Least Well-Educated Candidates
Robert Weissberg
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by American Thinker on November 15, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission.......
October 28, 2024
MTC: The Disappearance of the Bookish Kid—and What Colleges Must Do
Mark Bauerlein
An article in the Atlantic about college students not reading books got a lot of circulation this month. Even at top schools such as Columbia University, undergraduates struggle with works of more tha......
September 18, 2024
Academic Questions: A Voice of Sanity
Edward S. Shapiro
Coleman Hughes’ The End of Race Politics, provides an extended defense of the colorblind society, which Shapiro calls a “persuasive and compelling counter to the New York Times&#......
July 23, 2024
MTC: Teaching the Teachers: Subject Expertise Comes First
Richard Vedder
Recent polling by College Pulse for the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) reveals that college-aged Americans are abysmally ignorant of our rich historical heritage and knowledge of our m......
June 24, 2024
Academic Questions: On Harvard, White Flight, and Service Academies
Letters to the Editor, Volume 37, Issue 2.
June 25, 2024
MTC: Deboning Anthropological Science: A Boneheaded Decision
Elizabeth Weiss
In the last year, there has been a rapid increase in actions that involve removing human remains and photographs of human remains from anthropology and archaeology classrooms, conference halls, public......