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October 7, 2025

Remembering and New Proposals for Reform

Chance Layton

We reflect on October 7, 2023, and the many changes that have occurred since. We also discuss the Trump administration’s new “Compact for Excellence in Higher Education.”

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September 26, 2025

Fighting the Status Quo: Reform Faculty Search Committees

David Randall

The cycle of faculty and administrators stuffing their ranks with left-wing activists rather than educators and leaders must end. It's time to replace higher ed's leaders.

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August 26, 2025

No More Coordinators and Bloat: Audit Colleges for Civil Rights Instead

Teresa R. Manning

Trump’s push against biased universities is working, but forcing schools to hire “Title VI Coordinators” risks feeding the same bloated bureaucracy he’s fighting.

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June 5, 2024

Subpoenas for All!

Peter W. Wood

Ohio Northern University gnaws its teeth with an appetite for vindictive lawfare.

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December 11, 2023

Claudine Gay Should Go

Peter Wood and David Randall

The National Association of Scholars calls on the Harvard Corporation to remove Claudine Gay from Harvard College’s presidency, for a myriad of reasons.

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November 7, 2023

The Diversity Debacle

Kali Jerrard

The University of Washington is the latest institution to get caught in the DEI net.

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October 24, 2023

“I Hope I Get It”

Kali Jerrard

Joining the ranks of higher ed faculty isn’t as simple as being the most qualified.

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August 16, 2023

Update: The Gerber Case

Peter W. Wood

Ohio Northern University's dismissal of Professor Scott Gerber landed it in the spotlight. Let's keep it there until it does the right thing.

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July 19, 2023

On Collegiality

J. Scott Turner

Increasingly, collegiality is being added to the traditional triad of excellence that wins professors tenure. And now, the issue of collegiality is a fraught minefield, and has become one of......

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July 7, 2023

Title IX: Bad-Actor Bureaucrats Must Pay

Teresa R. Manning

An appeals recently court ruled against Texas’s Rice University and in favor of a student athlete in a Title IX case—the federal law banning sex discrimination in schools, but no......

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