OP-ED

PROF. GIORDANO: American education's decline under Governor Tim Walz

For the first time in 40 years, Minnesota now ranks below the national average in student proficiency. Under Walz’s…

By Nicholas Giordano
Aug 28, 2024

PROF ELLWANGER: Why I won my plagiarism contest

I knew that the people saying that 'everybody plagiarizes' knew that it was untrue. And that offended me.

By Adam Ellwanger
Feb 23, 2024

PROF GIORDANO: The ‘feelings economy’ to engulf US workforce as universities fail students, business owners

Emotions have supplanted academic standards and intellectual inquiry at colleges throughout the country.

By Nicholas Giordano
Feb 22, 2024

PROF JENKINS: Tenure– It’s complicated

Tenure also protects conservative professors like me

By Rob Jenkins
Feb 22, 2024

Legal scholar calls out AAUP group for its 'distressing anti-Israel bias'

Northwestern Law professor Steven Lubet criticized the AAUP for having 'displayed a distressing anti-Israel bias th…

By Campus Reform
Nov 29, 2023

GOULD: University is not a substitute for decline in community

It can't replace church, dating, marriage, or having children.

By Jared Gould
Sep 26, 2023

University OBGYN who penned pro-abortion oped violated state law, according to complaint

Dr. Sherrine Ibrahim and Dr. Caroline Rouse, both professors of clinical OB/GYN at the IU School of Medicine, co-wr…

By Jacob Stewart '24
Sep 18, 2023

ANALYSIS: Elite universities tout diversity just for show

67% of Harvard University’s undergraduate population comes from 'the top [20%] of the income distribution. Just 4.5…

By Jared Gould
Sep 12, 2023

Ivy League Prof: Bad people get elected, so let's choose our leaders by lottery instead

A University of Pennsylvania professor said in an August 21 op-ed that the U.S. should switch to a lottery system f…

By Claire Caton '26
Sep 5, 2023

Liberal prof slams conservative's NYT op-ed, calling it 'insidious and venomous'

Rufo advocated for the end to diversity, equity, and inclusion offices, claiming that colleges should instead pursu…

By Austin Browne '24
Aug 10, 2023

ANALYSIS: Media's gaslighting misrepresents commonsense education measures as radical

Upon closer examination, however, these policies can be better described as commonsense measures aimed at fostering…

By Jared Gould
Jul 23, 2023

'Free college only deepens the class divide': electrician's op-ed blasts credentialism

'If you had offered me a full ride to go to college at that time, it would have been about as useful as trying to h…

By Marya Ruth Dunning '25
Jun 26, 2023

Rep. Jim Banks: Anti-DEI bill is the first step to 'reform or replace the accreditation cartel'

By Jacob Stewart '24
Jun 15, 2023

GOULD: Mainstream media is wrong about affirmative action

The 'life support' narrative is intended to throw people into a crazy whirlpool of believing that Black Americans a…

By Jared Gould
Jun 12, 2023

Community college can be a better fit than a 4-year university for many, recent op-ed argues

In an April 29 op-ed for Insider, writer Kara Panzer told the story of her attendance at both a major four-year uni…

By Brandi Cunha '24
May 19, 2023

‘There is a culture of fear and silence’: Leftist professor rethinks DEI bureaucracy

On April 17, Professor Cheryl Thompson of Toronto Metropolitan University wrote an article published in the Toronto…

By Kaia Lehenbauer '26
May 14, 2023

SUMMARY: 'The unholy alliance of academic elites and government bureaucrats threatens free speech everywhere'

In his recent Fox News op-ed, Campus Reform Higher Ed Fellow Nicholas Giordano discusses the 'unholy alliance' for…

By Elaine Gunthorpe '24
May 13, 2023

ANALYSIS: Why learning cursive is vital to students' education

In 2010, many states removed cursive writing instruction from their education curriculum. By 2014, scholars were co…

By Jared Gould
Dec 29, 2022

Lincoln statue must go, article in Syracuse student newspaper argues

The Daily Orange recently published an article titled 'The Seated Lincoln statue does not represent SU’s current et…

By Madison Rehbehn '24
Dec 5, 2022

FURNISH: ‘Adjunctivitis’ is undermining the purpose of higher education

There are around 20 million students in American colleges and universities, being taught by around 1.5 million inst…

By Zachary Marschall
Sep 20, 2022

Religion prof argues that Christians should support abortion

Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters argues that simply not wanting a baby "is an imminently appropriate reason" to have an abor…

By Celine Ryan Ciccio
Aug 2, 2018

Student op-ed calls black conservative example of 'tokenism'

Texas State University's student newspaper has waded into racial controversy once again with an op-ed accusing Seco…

By Genesis Sanchez
Apr 18, 2018

'Hate speech is not free speech,' insist college presidents

A group representing 23 institutions of higher learning in San Antonio penned an open letter earlier this month dec…

By Adam Sabes
Dec 28, 2017

Student op-ed calls white people 'an abomination'

Texas State University’s student newspaper published an op-ed Tuesday telling “white people” that “your DNA is an a…

By Celine Ryan Ciccio
Nov 29, 2017

UW-Madison student gov reps slam speech by conservative prof

After claiming that Peterson's true purpose is to defend the right to "force unwanted labels and identities on whom…

By Adam Sabes
Nov 20, 2017

Berkeley prof complains that the law 'fetishizes free speech'

A University of California, Berkeley professor recently called Ben Shapiro a “racist, sexist, misogynist jerk” who …

By Adam Sabes
Sep 21, 2017

UMD student: College Park should rescind bid for Amazon HQ

A University of Maryland student is urging his school to rescind its bid to host Amazon’s second headquarters, call…

By Jacob Grandstaff
Sep 18, 2017