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PROF. JENKINS: If DEI is so good for men, why hasn’t it been?
In their efforts to attract more women, higher education institutions have achieved that goal but at the cost of a…
By Rob Jenkins 
Dec 12, 2025
PROF. JENKINS: The limits of academic freedom
Academic freedom doesn’t provide special dispensation for professors to say whatever they want.
By Rob Jenkins 
Oct 15, 2025
PROF. JENKINS: Channeling your anger for good
If you let your anger overwhelm you, you risk becoming just like the people who murdered Charlie, full of bitternes…
By Rob Jenkins 
Sep 24, 2025
The deadly reality of America's college campuses
Justification for the dehumanization of conservatives has flourished in the shadows of college campuses among staff…
By Erik Suarez  '23
Sep 12, 2025
PROF. JENKINS: Publishing professors’ syllabi is a good thing
Several (mostly red) states, including my own state of Georgia, have begun requiring professors at public institut…
By Rob Jenkins 
Sep 8, 2025
How college students can get the most out of leadership conferences
College is about more than lectures and textbooks. This fall, look for opportunities to participate in a conference…
By Karin Lips 
Sep 4, 2025
PROF. ELLWANGER: Citational justice endures as anti-woke sentiment grows
'Citational justice' is an idea that has flourished over the last five years or so. It asserts that scholars who be…
By Adam  Ellwanger 
Aug 29, 2025
PROF. JENKINS: Should you use AI on homework?
If you’re a current college student, you might be asking: how to use AI in your college classes. More specifically,…
By Rob Jenkins 
Aug 25, 2025
PROF. JENKINS: Don't let college infantilize you
Four years of college, rather than making things better, too often makes them worse because it provides young peopl…
By Rob Jenkins 
Aug 13, 2025
PROF. JENKINS: Campus conservatives are cool again, and the left is lashing out
If you thought being a campus conservative was suddenly going to become easy just because Donald Trump was elected,…
By Rob Jenkins 
Jun 13, 2025
PROF. GIORDANO: I found real intellectual diversity far away from elite colleges
No performative outrage, no ideological litmus tests or demands for conformity. Instead, it was what higher educati…
By Nicholas Giordano 
Apr 30, 2025
PROF. JENKINS: Harvard finds wingtip on the other foot as Trump moves to revoke its tax-exempt status
It’s hard to feel sorry for Harvard or any of the other elite institutions that face losing federal funding.
By Rob Jenkins 
Apr 17, 2025
PROF. GARRETT: California community colleges are playgrounds for fraud and failure
One-third of applicants to the California Community College system may have been fabricated identities used to harv…
By Matthew Garrett 
Apr 16, 2025
PROF. GARRETT: Harvard’s math class problem shows why merit still matters
This is what happens when ideology replaces merit. Rigor erodes. Degrees lose value. Employers stop trusting diplom…
By Matthew Garrett 
Apr 9, 2025
PROF. ELLWANGER: Academic Freedom Alliance wrongly defends student agitators
The notion that a 'free exchange of ideas' cannot happen unless foreign activists have a physical presence at our u…
By Adam  Ellwanger 
Apr 8, 2025
PROF. GARRETT: California’s reckless defiance of Title IX
In California, community colleges are pretending Trump's new rules banning men in women's sports don’t apply to the…
By Matthew Garrett 
Mar 25, 2025
PROF. GARRETT: Free speech and honest inquiry win in the University of California System
The University of California has begun to turn the page on ideological gatekeeping and is taking its first steps to…
By Matthew Garrett 
Mar 21, 2025
PROF. JENKINS: Can we reform the professoriate?
If we’re going to reform the professoriate, we must start early, encouraging more conservative young people to purs…
By Rob Jenkins 
Feb 28, 2025
PROF. GIORDANO: Congress must dismantle the Department of Education
The elimination of the Department of Education isn’t a radical idea. It was only founded in its current form in 197…
By Nicholas Giordano 
Feb 24, 2025
PROF. GARRETT: Why these professors are hypocrites on academic freedom
If academic freedom means anything, it must protect faculty from both government coercion and institutional ideolog…
By Matthew Garrett 
Feb 7, 2025
PROF. ELLWANGER: Universities’ opposition to ICE raids puts professors on the front line
My university’s guidance does seem designed to delay ICE agents' access to certain spaces on campus and to complica…
By Adam  Ellwanger 
Feb 6, 2025
PROF. JENKINS: No, I'm not tired of winning
No doubt there are many battles still ahead, but I for one plan to enjoy these victories even as we anticipate more…
By Rob Jenkins 
Feb 5, 2025
STURGE: The Laken Riley Act makes college women safer
The Laken Riley Act will help keep women safer by punishing illegal immigrant criminals.
By Emily Sturge  
Jan 31, 2025
VAIDA: The tide is turned against the anti-Israel campus maniacs
American campuses were gripped by anti-Israel chaos in 2024.
By Elad Vaida 
Jan 29, 2025
PROF. GIORDANO: K-12 education is mediocre because teaching colleges set mediocre standards
New Jersey’s recent announcement that it will eliminate basic reading, writing, and mathematics proficiency exams f…
By Nicholas Giordano 
Jan 22, 2025
PROF. JENKINS: In 2025, resolve to become a better thinker
You might not think you have time, with your course load and other commitments, but you almost certainly have free …
By Rob Jenkins 
Jan 21, 2025
PROF. GARRETT: Leftists’ victimhood mentality persists as DEI retreat accelerates
In the DEI industrial complex, those who benefit from preferential policies are encouraged to perpetuate the illusi…
By Matthew Garrett 
Jan 17, 2025
PROF. GIORDANO: California fires show what really happens when academic theories meet real life
As a former emergency manager, I know firsthand how important emergency preparedness and response are to protecting…
By Nicholas Giordano 
Jan 16, 2025
BOOK REVIEW: Young Zionist Voices
The battle against anti-Semitism in higher education is far from over, but Jews are no longer content to simply sta…
By Elad Vaida 
Jan 10, 2025
2024: 5 op-eds from the Campus Reform Higher Education Fellows
Campus Reform published a number of commentaries in 2024, including those authored by our Higher Education Fellows.…
By Natalie Eaton 
Dec 30, 2024
PROF. GIORDANO: 2024 is a year of victories
A movement has been gaining momentum throughout 2024 to reclaim America’s classrooms from ideological activists who…
By Nicholas Giordano 
Dec 17, 2024
PROF. GARRETT: Why I’m helping California move beyond DEI
Meaningful reform must come from outside the current system. That's why I launched the California Curriculum Cente…
By Matthew Garrett 
Dec 16, 2024
PROF. JENKINS: 'Social justice' is injustice by another name
Justice for an individual does not require depriving anyone else of something they deserve.
By Rob Jenkins 
Dec 9, 2024
PROF. JENKINS: How you can help 'de-wokify' your campus
The Left’s worldview is being repudiated across the country, while yours is gaining momentum. If you’re still in t…
By Rob Jenkins 
Nov 22, 2024
PROF. GIORDANO: Toxic spread of campus fragility continues
Growing entitlement is a trend that has led to billions of dollars in economic losses as the college mindset contin…
By Nicholas Giordano 
Nov 14, 2024
TASHJY: There were no milk and cookies at Normandy
For some perspective on life’s real challenges, today’s students need a history lesson.
By Ken Tashjy 
Nov 13, 2024
PROF. JENKINS: Need a break from politics? Read a novel.
Even though college students no longer read books, fiction also has a way of helping us understand and relate to th…
By Rob Jenkins 
Nov 12, 2024
MARSCHALL: Students cannot cope with Trump's victory over Harris. Blame the teachers.
Good teachers develop students’ critical thinking skills to help them see that not every political defeat is necess…
By Zachary Marschall, PhD 
Nov 7, 2024
PROF. JENKINS: Harvard's leadership lesson on how to be awful
Claudine Gay's leadership award comes after reports of the former Harvard University president plagiarizing scholar…
By Rob Jenkins 
Oct 22, 2024
TASHJY: Anti-Israel agenda motivated professors to abandon academic freedom principles
While the AAUP claims that its recent embrace of academic boycotts is not intended to target Israel, make no mistak…
By Ken Tashjy 
Oct 7, 2024
PROF. JENKINS: Plagiarism is still wrong
What does it mean for students when professors and administrators are allowed to plagiarize with impunity? As a pra…
By Rob Jenkins 
Oct 2, 2024
The book higher ed must read to do better on anti-Semitism: REVIEW
It remains painfully clear that higher education administrators thought they knew what anti-Semitism looked like. T…
By Zachary Marschall, PhD 
Sep 13, 2024
PROF. GIORDANO: Why 30% of Gen Z sympathize with Osama bin Laden
The American education system produces undereducated, radicalized individuals who are indoctrinated with anti-Ameri…
By Nicholas Giordano 
Sep 11, 2024
ANALYSIS: Illegal immigration puts strain on American college students’ education
As American students face skyrocketing tuition prices and mounting student debt, illegal immigrants are increasingl…
By Emily Sturge  
Sep 11, 2024
OPINION: Four things conservative students should do to prepare for college during an election year
During an election year, politics is heightened on campus, and students often face even more pressure to embrace pr…
By Karin Lips 
Sep 10, 2024
PROF. JENKINS: How you can promote free speech on your campus
The first thing you can do is literally speak up. Sure, be strategic about what you say, when, and where.
By Rob Jenkins 
Aug 29, 2024
MARSCHALL: There is no more 'back to campus' after universities surrendered to pro-Hamas mobs
There is no 'back to campus.' Not anymore. The cultural barriers and physical demarcations that once separated soci…
By Zachary Marschall, PhD 
Aug 27, 2024
PROF. JENKINS: Kamala Harris, stone-cold Marxist
Harris's conception of 'equitable treatment' is indistinguishable from communism—no doubt because our modern notion…
By Rob Jenkins 
Aug 5, 2024
PROF. GIORDANO: The rise of academic hate
Faculty have gone from professors to extremists.
By Nicholas Giordano 
Aug 1, 2024
PROF. JENKINS: Higher education and the crisis of competence
Our higher education system has contributed to the crisis of competence by promulgating the toxic ideology known as…
By Rob Jenkins 
Jul 23, 2024