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A VISIT TO THE WOKE BOOKSTORE CHARLES DARWIN: VICTORIAN GENIUS REDEFINING WORDS TO OBSCURE FACTS WHY THE TRANS ISSUE IS MUCH BIGGER THAN BATHROOMS, SPORTS, AND

FRAGILE FEELINGS

* __ May 31, 2021

* By W. Alexander Bell With news that a transgender powerlifter will likely be competing in this year’s Olympics, questions are once again being raised about how allowing biological men into female spaces could affect the integrity of athletic competition and women’s safety. Many pundits on the left see this as a non-issue; there simply aren’t that many transgender athletes,

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AN ANTI-ANTIRACISM MANIFESTO

* __ May 29, 2021

* By Ray M. Sanchez

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal” Actual, true racism is discrimination or prejudice based on outward perceived or real ethnic or racial attributes. It is nothing more. Discrimination and prejudice based on outward perceived or real ethnic or racial attributes has occurred and does occur in America, as

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‘WHITE FRAGILITY’ IS A RACIST CONCEPT

* __ May 27, 2021

* By Philip Carl Salzman Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Epoch Times on May 17, 2021, and is crossposted here with permission. Like “black criminality,” “Jewish shrewdness,” “Italian mafiosity,” and “Irish drunkenness,” “white fragility” is a racist concept. Identifying a particular derogatory characteristic, or even a positive characteristic, with a racial or ethnic group, as if

it accurately

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THE SCREWED-UP EMAILS: PART II

* __ May 25, 2021

* By David Richardson Editor’s Note: The following is the second in a series of satirical articles loosely inspired by C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters. To read Part I, click here. PART II: THE YEAR 2029 OC (Old Calendar) Prologue: In the year 2024, after Congress created the new states of Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin

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FREE COMMUNITY COLLEGE WILL ONLY MAKE THINGS WORSE

* __ May 24, 2021

* By Robert Weissberg Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Intellectual Takeout on May 19, 2021 and is crossposted here with permission. Like nearly all Americans, President Joe Biden believes that a college degree is the ticket to both individual economic advancement and uplifting the poor. To put his money where his mouth is, he has proposed $256 billion in

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WAS THOMAS JEFFERSON AMERICA’S FIRST ABOLITIONIST?

* __ May 20, 2021

* By Robert F. Turner Editor’s Note: The original version of this article stated, “It was Thomas Jefferson who in 1769 drafted the law that, when enacted three years later, permitted the freeing of Virginia slaves.” The “three” here is incorrect and has been corrected to “thirteen.” Most Americans appear to believe that Thomas Jefferson raped the slave child Sally

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INSTRUCTOR’S STATEMENT ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN THE CLASSROOM

* __ May 18, 2021

* By Mark Mercer

To my students: University students should be free from threat of institutional censure to state any opinion they wish and to state their opinions using whatever language they wish. At our university, however, students do not enjoy this freedom of expression. Various documents at Saint Mary’s University constrain what students may say

and how they

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THE SCREWED-UP EMAILS: PART I

* __ May 15, 2021

* By Ray Sanchez and David Richardson Editor’s Note: The following is the first in a series of satirical articles loosely inspired by C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters. In honor of C.S. Lewis, who “discovered” the first set of correspondence.   “Satire’s nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an

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LIBERTY FUND’S MISSION MORE VITAL THAN EVER

* __ May 13, 2021

* By Mike Sabo

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by RealClearWire on May 12, 2021, and is crossposted here with permission. The rise of critical race theory, along with the popularity of the New York Times’s 1619 Project, presents a serious challenge to the concept of “E Pluribus Unum.” According to Richard Reinsch, the editor of Liberty Fund’s

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LET’S HIRE CHINA TO RUN OUR SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES

* __ May 12, 2021

* By Philip Carl Salzman Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Epoch Times on May 8, 2021 and is crossposted here with permission. The internationalization of labor has been a longstanding policy of government and business. The main reason is the low cost of labor in developing countries such as China, compared to the cost of labor in

modern

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TEACHING ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

* __ May 11, 2021

* By Douglas Groothuis One of the least enjoyable aspects of college teaching is policing students for cheating. Instructors face the procedural issue of finding cheating as well as the moral issue of warning against it and advocating for academic integrity. Programs such as Turnitin check papers for plagiarism against a database of published material and other student papers.

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LEGISLATURES: IT’S TIME TO DEFUND UNIVERSITIES

* __ May 10, 2021

* By Philip Carl Salzman Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Epoch Times on May 5, 2021 and is crossposted here with permission. Our universities have been uniformly corrupted by neo-Marxist political ideology. They no longer teach the great wealth of knowledge of Western Civilization, or engage in research to advance that knowledge. Instead, they indoctrinate their students

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FIELD NOTES ON RECENT TRENDS IN HIGHER ED LITIGATION

* __ May 9, 2021

* By Anonymous

Editor’s Note: The following is a reproduction of a pair of emails received by the editors of Minding the Campus. We thought they would attract broad interest and publish them here with the correspondent’s consent. The correspondent has chosen to remain anonymous. The messages have been lightly edited for readability. Three interesting articles about higher ed crossed

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ACADEMIA BECOMES MORE IDEOLOGICAL, MORE COERCIVE

* __ May 8, 2021

* By Philip Carl Salzman Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Epoch Times on April 30, 2021 and is crossposted here with permission. Universities as a community of autonomous scholars delving into knowledge and seeking to expand it is a model long out of date. With the explosive growth of university, scientific, and granting agency bureaucracies, coercive oversight and

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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION: USEFUL CONCEPT OR TROJAN

HORSE?

* __ May 6, 2021

* By W. Alexander Bell Having worked within the humanities for a number of years now, I have first-hand experience with the ways in which words and concepts can get politicized and abused. Sometimes, familiar words take on new meanings (e.g., racism, gender), while other times, new concepts get mainstreamed without the general public being made aware of what they

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IN DEFENSE OF THE N-WORD: CONTEXT SHOULD DETERMINE ITS ADOPTION BY

PROFESSORS

* __ May 4, 2021

* By Stuart Chambers On college and university campuses, no self-respecting individual would use the N-word as a racial slur, given its links to slavery and the dehumanization of Africans. But a marked shift in attitudes has occurred. Professors, particularly white professors, must now refrain from referring to the N-word in any capacity. This eradicationist agenda, however, is misguided.

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THE SIXTIES AND THE FORGOTTEN MAN: A NON-MODEST PROPOSAL

* __ May 1, 2021

* By Peter E. Austin Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of Peter E. Austin’s essay, “The Sixties and the Forgotten Man: A Non-Modest Proposal.” Dr. Austin was Honors Professor of History and University Studies for sixteen years at St. Edward’s University. Currently he directs The 1960s Project, a large study of the era that grew out of a large lecture course

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GMU PRESIDENT CITES ‘DIVERSITY’ TO JUSTIFY ILLEGAL GOAL OF MOSTLY

NON-WHITE STAFF

* __ April 30, 2021

* By Hans Bader

The president of George Mason University wants to give minorities a big advantage in hiring until the faculty is as heavily minority as the school’s student body and the future, mostly non-white U.S. population. This is illegal, say lawyers and law professors. Indeed, GMU’s president, Gregory Washington, recognized that objection in an

April 15 email

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HARVARD WRONGLY ATTRIBUTED POLICE KILLINGS TO RACISM

* __ April 29, 2021

* By Hans Bader

In a misleading email to alumni, the leadership of Harvard University implied, without evidence, that police killed three people out of racism. It cited the “killings of Adam Toledo,” “Daunte Wright” and “George Floyd” in railing against the “evil of racism” and police killings of people “by virtue of the color of their skin.” “The

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INCLUSIVE ASSESSMENT: THE SOFT BIGOTRY OF LOW EXPECTATIONS REVISITED

* __ April 28, 2021

* By Matthew Stewart On April 11, The Telegraph was one of several British Sunday editions to report on the adoption of so-called “inclusive assessments” by some British universities. The University of Hull, a public university responsible for the education of over 15,000 students, was featured prominently in these reports. Hull’s website describes its initiative on a web page

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HIGHER ED ROUNDUP

AS THE U.S.-CHINA TRADE WAR CONTINUES, CAREER TRAINING IS AMERICA’S

BEST DEFENSE

“Amid the ongoing trade war between China and the United States, lawmakers are moving to pass a comprehensive new bill to boost economic competition, minimize reliance on China, and promote investment in the American workforce. With our economy beginning to recover, we need to focus on preparing young people to fill vital roles in the years ahead and decrease our reliance on tech and talent from abroad.” - _RealClearEducation_, 6/4/21 FLORIDA IS OVERCOMING 'SYSTEMIC PRIVILEGE' BY PUTTING STUDENTS BEFORE

THE 'SYSTEM'

“Throughout America, a very important – and highly racialized – conversation is taking place about overcoming injustice. Here in Florida, that conversation has often gone in a markedly different and very promising direction. And schoolchildren of color are among the greatest beneficiaries.” - _RealClearPolicy_, 6/4/21 MORE FALLOUT FOR UNC CHAPEL HILL “Whether or not Nikole Hannah-Jones joins the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill may soon be answered: today is the deadline she set for the university’s Board of Trustees to grant her the tenure she was initially offered or face legal action. Either way, the university may have already lost out on another coveted recruit ... ” - _Inside Higher Ed_, 6/4/21 CAN HONORS AND REGULAR STUDENTS LEARN MATH TOGETHER? A NEW APPROACH

ARGUES YES.

“Advocates for the new California math guidelines say 'de-tracking,' or mixing together students of varying academic performance, can help all students, particularly those who would have languished in lower-level classes. It can also unravel racial segregation inside schools. Almost everywhere, White and Asian American students are more likely to be placed in higher tracks, with Black and Latino students more likely to be placed in lower tracks.” - _The Washington Post_,

6/4/21

WHY DON’T GOVERNING BOARDS REIN IN COLLEGE COSTS? “Public higher education was once America’s great enabler, permitting young people from lower-class backgrounds to attend college for very little money and to rise as far as their abilities and drives would take them. That may no longer be the case, according to economists James Koch and Richard Cebula.” - _The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal_

,

6/4/21

TEXAS BARS PROTEST CIVICS AND CRT “The Texas legislature has just passed House Bill 3979, a landmark education bill. It is the first law in the country barring not only the core concepts of Critical Race Theory (CRT) from K–12 schools, but “protest civics” as well. The practice of protest civics — mandatory student protests and lobbying after school (invariably for leftist causes) — is every bit as much a threat to K–12 schools as CRT.” - _National Review_, 6/3/21 COLLEGES SAY STUDENTS MUST GET A COVID VACCINE. BUT NO, NOT THAT ONE. “Since March, more than 400 colleges and universities in the United States have announced vaccine mandates, requiring students to be immunized against the coronavirus. But the rules have been designed primarily with domestic students in mind, leaving international students scrambling — particularly those in India and Russia.” - _The New York Times_, 6/3/21 PRINCETON’S METHODOLOGY OF DESTRUCTION “For decades, ideologues in academia have been deconstructing Western thought and re-creating it in their own image. In the last several years, and with the rise of 'woke politics,' higher education (at least where the humanities are concerned) has been an experiment in absurdity. The latest example is Princeton University’s proposed changes to its undergraduate classics curriculum.” - _American

Greatness_, 6/3/21

THE ASSAULT ON MERITOCRACY HELPS NO ONE “What America urgently needs is to improve the K-12 education in STEM, and to help Black and Hispanic children to address the real root causes of educational performance gaps in Black and Hispanic communities. The assault on meritocracy, will only harm both Asian Americans and America.” - _Pasadena Star-News_, 6/3/21 THE PANDEMIC DIMINISHED FACULTY POWER AT SOME COLLEGES: SURVEY “Nearly one-fourth of polled faculty governance leaders at four-year colleges said faculty members had less influence on institutional decision-making since the pandemic started, while nearly 15% said their influence had grown. That's according to a new survey from the American Association of University Professors, which received responses from around 400 faculty leaders. Just 3% of respondents thought faculty members had the same level of impact over budget decisions as administrators.” - _Higher Ed Dive_, 6/3/21

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