Recent Articles

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.

Hackers Reveal Racial Discrimination at New York University

Hackers have embarrassed New York University (NYU) by breaking into the university’s servers and posting on NYU’s home page the statistics on how NYU commits race discrimination......

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.

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......

Most Recent from Minding The Campus

Foreign Students Price Americans Out of Their Own Workforce

Author’s Note: This article is from my weekly “Top of Mind” email, sent to subscribers every Thursday. For more content like this and to receive the full newsletter each week, enter your name and emai......

End Athletic Admissions to Military Academies

Secretary Peter Hegseth’s first order to the Department of Defense promised “a focus on lethality, meritocracy, accountability, standards, and readiness.” To the extent that the Service Academies—West......

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


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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March 18, 2025

Mopping Up the DEI Mess

Ridding higher education of DEI practices is proving to be slow-going, but reform is still possible....

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March 11, 2025

Defund and Deport, But Eliminating Campus Anti-Semitism Means Going After Professors

Higher education is so replete with anti-Semitism as a norm in elite schools that eliminating the scourge of Jew-hate will require broad changes to one of higher education’s centr......

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Statements

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.

Statement: University of Virginia Votes to Dissolve DEI Office

The Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia has unanimously voted to dissolve the University’s Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Community Partnerships, end illegal discrim......

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: Humility, The Scientific Method, and Climate Change

Join the National Association of Scholars for a lecture by Francis Menton as part of our Future of Freedom Lecture Series.

Event: Waste Land—The Education Department’s Profligacy, Mediocrity, and Radicalism

Join the National Association of Scholars for the launch of our new report, exposing the Education Department and detailing a path forward.