Opinions

STURGE: 3 reasons to be optimistic for 2025

Significant trends that Campus Reform has covered highlight the growing recognition on college campuses to uphold t…

By Emily Sturge
Jan 1, 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

STURGE: 5 wasteful uses of taxpayer money in 2024 lawmakers should investigate in 2025

2025 is the time to put a stop to the wasteful spending that has plagued higher education. Here are five eye-openi…

By Emily Sturge
Dec 27, 2024

STURGE: The death of DEI started in 2024 and will accelerate in 2025

Though the Department of Education has spent over $1 billion on DEI grants since 2021, the incoming Trump administr…

By Emily Sturge
Dec 27, 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