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The inversion was revealing. Students disrupted the invited speaker. Other students documented the disruption. The institution’s warning went to the students who documented it.

Read @ProfessorSethO on Minding The Campus:
https://t.co/6NGRXTxB6A

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Here is the moral of the story. Robert Sproul might have been the president of UC Berkeley, but he was really working for Ernest Lawrence. Neither was pursuing money, but both were pursuing prestige.

@macrotermiteman on the impact of university gifts:
https://t.co/iOJ79b8T1M

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In the WSJ, John Ellis warns that decades of campus radicalism have finally poisoned the electorate: ineffective Marxist professors didn't get laughed off but rather indoctrinated a generation to embrace fringe extremism.

https://t.co/14eif7mnAS

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@DavidRandallNAS Public policy and the law have traded rigorous scientific truth for ideological dogma and administrative control. Help us combat radical takeovers in higher ed by joining the National Association of Scholars today: https://t.co/n6pVhpjPMk

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Our 2024 Shifting Sands report by @DavidRandallnas, Warren Kindzierski, and Stanley Young, "Zombie Psychology, Implicit Bias Theory, and the Implicit Association Test," reveals how junk science underpins pervasive DEI mandates.

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@DavidRandallNAS Discover how statistical analysis exposes the IAT as irreproducible pseudoscience that fails to predict real-world behavior across race and sex. https://t.co/S1uid37HTB

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Is anything being done to strengthen admissions requirements once more?

Kali Jerrard answers:
https://t.co/dTFnVAIedr

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Ideological centers should not receive massive funding while faith-based student groups get crumbs.

https://t.co/LYf02CjTPK

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Proud to see our work in Minding the Campus driving the national debate. Over at Brownstone Institute, @rsgonner builds on Christopher Morales’s piece tackling how AI exposes deeper educational flaws.

Read here: https://t.co/mPueIaYnGT

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Prioritizing gender politics over due process in campus investigations is incompatible with the rule of law.

https://t.co/tz1WlxSL0T

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The @WSJ reports on how campus social life became fraught with paperwork: https://t.co/kAvsra3ewo

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Minnesota State U. is spending $70K in mandatory student fees on gender and sexuality programs.

https://t.co/ni13EOK4za

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The tsunami of student loan defaults is coming.

@gillen_andrew_j on student loan defaults:
https://t.co/FAlE3CoeVh

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"Universities have not formally announced their partisanship, but they are clearly an informal part of the Democratic Party," notes NAS President Peter Wood as elite faculty break donation records in key Senate races.

https://t.co/3v6urWrRqo

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The Supreme Court is revisiting race and admissions, taking up a Maryland case on proxy discrimination after the 2023 Harvard ruling. Merit and equal protection remain on the line.

Read: https://t.co/eFzkkSNgQy

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"Universities have not formally announced their partisanship, but they are clearly an informal part of the Democratic Party," NAS President Peter Wood warns as university staff direct record-breaking cash to key Senate races

https://t.co/3v6urWrRqo

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"The MIT report calls for drastic measures to keep a college education relevant and valuable. Strikingly, the report urges professors to increase in-person interaction with students."

Read more by Timothy Minella: https://t.co/wmbjbT9U0T

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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many colleges and universities relaxed their admissions processes by eliminating SAT or ACT scores as part of the decision-making process. Instead, test-optional admissions policies became popular...

Read the rest of the NAS CounterCurrent: https://t.co/E3x5l5c3wG

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A University of Michigan campus voting hub where a non-citizen voted illegally remains active ahead of midterms.

https://t.co/lHxLN3gz19

[Andrew Gillen @Gillen_Andrew_J]

I have a new piece in @MindingCampus on the coming wave of student loan defaults https://t.co/4U0Jv8wqcZ

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We're proud to see our research on the erasure of Western civilization in schools cited in @theamMind, pointing to a path forward with Hillsdale's 'Golden Thread' Curriculum.

https://t.co/3TlT70Hhz0