1    Classics: in Terminal Decline?
SourcesIs Classics’ Empire in Terminal Decline? (Times Higher Education)
‍Howard Students Protest Cut of Classics Department, Hub for Black Scholarship (New York Times)
‍The Post-COVID Classical-Education Boom (National Review)
‍Removal of Greek, Latin at Princeton Sparks Debate on Classics in the US (Greek Reporter)
‍History Lessons From Recent Past Can Help Classics to Survive (Times Higher Education)

Further Reading
Did You Know? Classics Departments and Programs Are Disappearing (Martin Center)

2    Trigger Warnings Could Be Harming Students
SourceThe Data Is In—Trigger Warnings Don’t Work (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Further Reading
Is It Ever OK to Enunciate a Slur in the Classroom? (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍Speaking Up (City Journal)
‍Steven Pinker: A generation has to watch every word…It could cripple intellectual life (The Times)
‍Editors’ Introduction: Practices of Academic Freedom and Flowers of Liberation (AAUP)

Don’t Cancel Rigor  (The Martin Center)
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Not All College Students Are OK with Cancel Culture  (NAS Minding the Campus)
‍New Database Documents Campus Cancel Culture  (Daily Signal)

13    Where Have All the Men Gone? Women Now Outnumber Men 60–⁠40 on College Campuses
Sources
A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: ‘I Just Feel Lost’ (Wall Street Journal)
‍Why Men Are Disappearing on Campus (Wall Street Journal)
‍Into the lioness’s den: why higher education is skewed against men (Spectator World)
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Further Reading
Colleges Have a Guy Problem (The Atlantic)
‍‘It’s Become Increasingly Hard for Them to Feel Good About Themselves’ (New York Times)
‍Perspective: Higher education just isn’t built for men right now (Deseret News)

With 50% more women than men enrolling, is HE failing?  (University World News)
‍An unnoticed result of the decline of men in college: It’s harder for women to get in  (The Hechinger Report)
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Study Abroad Is Coming Back. But With More Hurdles  (NPR)

14   The Pandemic Worsened Food Insecurities on Campus
SourcesFood Pantries Merge to Fight Campus Hunger (Inside Higher Ed)
‍Far too many college students go hungry. Here’s how colleges and policymakers can help (Hechinger Report)

Further Reading
College students struggle with mental health as pandemic drags on  (Washington Post)
‍How Time-Management and Other Tools Can Help Students With Mental Illnesses Stay Enrolled  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍You Can Ask for Mental-Health Help, but Can You Find Any?  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
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What Led to Howard U.’s Longest Protest Ever  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
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USC students protest toxic Greek life after fraternity suspended for alleged drugging, sexual assault  (Los Angeles Times)
‍USC suspends Sigma Nu fraternity chapter after reports of drugging, sexual assault  (Los Angeles Times)
‍USC admits to ‘troubling delay’ in warning about fraternity drugging, sex assault reports  (Los Angeles Times)
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Campus Pride Lists ‘Absolute Worst’ Colleges for LGBTQ+  (The College Post)
‍Virginia Scholar Refuses to Cave to Pressure Over Tweet Criticizing Bisexual Superman  (Daily Signal)
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How Athletes From Smaller Colleges Are Benefiting From New Name, Image and Likeness Rules  (The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
‍A New World: How Female College Athletes Have Capitalized on New Name, Image and Likeness Rules  (The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
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Michigan State Needed Dining-Hall Workers. So It Asked the Faculty and Staff to Volunteer.  (Chronicle of Higher Education)

15   Catherine Lhamon Reinstated to Civil Rights Post, With Kamala Harris Casting the Tie-Breaking Vote 

Sources
‍Biden’s Pick for Education Dept.’s Civil Rights Chief Squeaks Through Senate (New York Times)
‍How Badly Do the Democrats Want Catherine Lhamon Back in Power? (Martin Center)
‍Senate Confirms Catherine Lhamon to Civil Rights Post; Kamala Harris Casts Decisive Vote (Education Week)
‍Catherine Lhamon narrowly survives Senate confirmation, will head Ed Dept’s civil rights arm (Higher Ed Dive)

Further Reading
Catherine Lhamon narrowly survives Senate confirmation, will head Ed Dept's civil rights arm  (Higher Ed Dive)
‍Civil Rights Commission Produces Records in Response to FOIA Lawsuit  (NAS Minding the Campus)
‍This Time We're Ready: The Re-Appointment of Catherine Lhamon  (National Association of Scholars)
‍We Hear A Lot About Title IX, But What Does It Really Mean? Here’s What to Know.  (The News & Observer)
‍AAU Takes Aim at 'Pass the Harasser' With New Principles on Sexual Misconduct  (Higher Ed Dive)
‍Does the ‘Liberty Way’ Discourage Students From Reporting Sexual Assault?  (Chronicle of Higher Education)

The Long Shadow of Jerry Sandusky  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍Why Colleges Struggle to Root Out Professor Misconduct, in One Deposition  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍College Students Required to Detail Sexual History Before Registering for Classes  (NAS Minding the Campus)
‍North American universities to share sexual harassment findings  (Times Higher Education)
‍Can the University of Montana Escape Its Past?  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
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Tenure for Teachers Only  (Inside Higher Ed)
‍The Damaging Myth of the Natural Teacher  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
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University of North Carolina Wins in Admissions-Discrimination Suit  (Wall Street Journal)
‍Legal victory for UNC on race-conscious admissions comes as Supreme Court weighs whether to take up the issue  (Washington Post)
‍North Carolina admissions lawsuit win upholds affirmative action  (Times Higher Education)
‍University of North Carolina defeats challenge to race-based admissions policies  (Reuters)
‍3 Takeaways From the Ruling on UNC’s Admissions Policies  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍University of North Carolina Can Consider Race in Admissions, Federal Judge Rules  (The Washington Post)
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Why Is the AAUP Investigating UNC?   (Martin Center)

Georgia state universities weaken tenure protections  (Times Higher Education)
‍AAUP investigates University System of Georgia after tenure changes  (Higher Ed Dive)
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After Scathing Criticism, U. of Florida Will Let Professors Testify Against the State  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍U. of Florida Stops 3 Professors From Taking Part in Voting-Rights Suit, Raising Cries of Censorship  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍U. of Florida Doctor Says Administrators Blocked Him From Participating in Lawsuits About Masking  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍U. of Florida’s Accreditor Will Investigate Denial of Professors’ Voting-Rights Testimony  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍3 U. of Florida Experts Couldn’t Testify on a Voting-Rights Law. This Professor Had No Trouble.  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍‘I’m Speechless’: What Prompted the U. of Florida to Tell Professors Not to Testify?  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍Florida Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Academic Freedom  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍U of Florida's move to bar faculty from testifying in lawsuit raises academic freedom concerns  (Higher Ed Dive)
‍Battle to define what academic freedom means is not over  (University World News)
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Employer Vaccine and Testing Rules Take Effect Jan. 4  (The Wall Street Journal)
‍OSHA: Employers have 60 days to mandate COVID-19 vaccines  (Higher Ed Dive)
‍Feds Roll Out More Vaccine Mandates  (Inside Higher Ed)
‍More Colleges Mandate Vaccines to Comply With Biden Order  (Inside Higher Ed)
‍Can colleges extend deadlines to get contract employees COVID-19 vaccines?  (University Business)
‍Biden’s Vaccine Order Is Broad. These Campuses Are Trying to Apply It Narrowly.  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍Texas universities with federal contracts are caught between Greg Abbott and Joe Biden over COVID-19 vaccine mandates  (Texas Tribune)
‍With big money on the line, universities adopt COVID-19 employee vaccine rules  (University Business)
‍Employee Vaccination Is Now Required at U. of Virginia and U. of Tennessee  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍Washington State Fires Football Coach Following Vaccine Refusal  (Wall Street Journal)

‍3 state-based higher education reform initiatives  (AIE Ideas)

16     The Silent Campus—Student Self-CensorshipSourcesHalf of college students fear expressing ideas in the classroom: survey (College Fix)
‍How one college is helping to keep dialogue civil among students (University Business)
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‍Further Reading
2021 College Free Speech Rankings (Fire)
‍Bring RealClear Balance to America's Media (RealClearEducation)

17     The Silent Campus—Faculty Fear the “Scarlet C”
SourcesThe New Puritans (The Atlantic)
‍Speaking Up (City Journal)
‍Cancel Culture Is Both a Scarlet Letter and a Reign of Terror (Real Clear Education)

Further Reading
Colleges That Betray Core Principles Don’t Deserve More Public Aid (Forbes)
‍Two-thirds of college students now say it’s okay to shout down a speaker (AEI)
‍Woke mob fails to cancel geophysicist’s lecture, despite MIT’s cowardice (Powerline)
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Alumni Unite for Freedom of Speech  (Wall Street Journal)
‍Sheep No More: the Alumni Rise  (Martin Center)
‍Davidsonians for Freedom of Thought and Discourse: Interview with John Craig  (Martin Center)
‍‘Massive wave of interest’ in new Alumni Free Speech Alliance as battle over campus freedoms heat up   (The College Fix)
‍Disappointed higher ed donors have options  (Philanthropic Daily)

Introducing the Minding the Campus Lysenko Award  (NAS Minding the Campus)
Top Berkeley Scientist Resigns, Says School Excludes Scientists Based on Political Views  (Daily Signal)
‍Can the University be Reasonable?  (Law & Liberty)
‍Building a “Robust Free Expression Culture on Campus”  (Martin Center)
‍Did You Know? Americans’ Views of College Professors  (Martin Center)
‍Attacking Merit in a Bumbling Bureaucracy: The University of California Leads Again  (NAS Minding the Campus)

18     Cancel Culture War Games – MIT, Princeton, and Dorian Abbot
SourcesMIT cancels science lecture by professor, a DEI critic, after cancel culture campaign (College Fix)
‍The Shame of MIT: Canceling Dorian Abbot (National Association of Scholars)
‍Woke mob fails to cancel geophysicist’s lecture, despite MIT’s cowardice  (Powerline)
‍MIT’s Choice of Lecturer Ignited Criticism. So Did Its Decision to Cancel.  (New York Times)

Further Reading
The Views That Made Me Persona Non Grata at MIT  (Wall Street Journal)
‍Princeton hosts successful event with professor targeted by cancel culture for diversity critique (The College Fix)
‍MIT to Discuss Academic Freedom After Canceling Lecture  (Boston Globe)
‍MIT remains open to hosting Abbott at a later date  (MIT Organization Chart)

19     USC to Apologize to Imprisoned WWII Japanese-American Students while UC Berkely Starts a Program to Support Ex-prisoners Sources USC to apologize for WWII actions that derailed education of Japanese American students (Los Angeles Times)
‍Berkeley Underground Scholars supports students affected by incarceration (Daily Californian)

Further Reading
Essential California: Helping immigrant students at state colleges (Los Angeles Times)

20    Steven Pinker, Harvard, and Freedom of ExpressionSources
Steven Pinker:  'A generation has to watch every word ... it could cripple intellectual life.' (The Times)
‍In Review: Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale’s “The Darker Angels of Our Nature”  (NAS Minding the Campus)
‍In Praise of ‘Rationality’ (New York Times)
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‍Further Reading
Steven Pinker’s Disciplinary Drift (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍Pinker’s progress: the celebrity scientist at the centre of the culture wars (The Guardian)
‍Steven Pinker: Rationality Saves Lives (Reason)
‍Enough with the quackery, Pinker says (Harvard Gazette)

The Prophet of Academic Doom  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
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A Different Kind of Campus-Speaker Controversy  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍How NOT to Talk About Race  (The Nation)
‍The soft bigotry of America’s cultural left  (Financial Times)

How ‘Diversity’ Turned Tyrannical  (Wall Street Journal)
‍The Polarization Spiral  (Persuasion)
‍Schooling is in tempestuous times. Troublemaker Checker Finn weighs in.  (EdWeek)
‍Liberal education and liberal democracy  (American Enterprise Institute)
‍Is the Public School System Constitutional?  (Wall Street Journal)
‍Book Review: ‘Woke Racism’ by John McWhorter  (Wall Street Journal)
‍Black Professor: Blacks Who Reject Critical Race Theory Being ‘Erased’  (Daily Signal)
‍Ground Zero of Woke  (American Greatness)
‍Totalitarianism Takes Aim at Higher Education  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍Elite Universities Are the Worst for Free Speech  (RealClearEducation)
‍A Worrisome Peek Inside Yale Law’s Diversity Bureaucracy  (The Atlantic)
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The Future of Expertise  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍Universities and Meritocracy  (Martin Center)
‍Attacking Merit in a Bumbling Bureaucracy: The University of California Leads Again  (NAS Minding the Campus)
‍‘Time to get real’ on US science diversity efforts  (Times Higher Education)
‍Diversity, Equity, Inclusion: New Criticisms and Challenges  (Forbes)
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American Humanist  (City Journal)
‍Against ‘Diversity Statements’  (Commentary)
‍In Defense of Citizenship  (National Review)

21   Biden Administration Temporarily Lifts Rules for Public Service Loan Forgiveness 
SourcesTroubled Student Loan Forgiveness Program Gets an Overhaul (New York Times)
‍Biden Administration Temporarily Expands Student Loan Forgiveness Program for Public Servants (Washington Post)

Further Reading
What’s Changing in the New FAFSA and What’s Not (New York Times)
‍Biden Could Slash Student Debt in Half for the Average Borrower if Congress Doubles the Pell Grant, Report Finds (Business Insider)
‍Change Comes to Public Service Loan Forgiveness (Inside Higher Ed)

PSLF Was Already Bad. The Biden Administration Just Made It Worse (National Association of Scholars)
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Why Biden’s Plan for Free Community College Likely Will Be Cut From Budget Package  (Wall Street Journal)
‍Biden wins limited boosts in student aid but free college fails  (Times Higher Education)
‍Political negotiations spell the demise of Biden’s universal community college plan  (Washington Post)
‍Universities keep quiet as Biden retreats from free college plan  (Times Higher Education)
‍How Four-Year Colleges Helped Kill Free Community College Tuition  (New Republic)
‍Biden’s Free Comm College Fails, Opts for Increased Pell Grants  (The College Post)
Report: Increasing Pell Would Easily Expand Eligibility  (Inside Higher Ed)
‍‘Free’ college schadenfreude  (RealClearPolicy)
‍Free college movement will likely head back to the states — where it belongs  (RealClearPolicy)
‍Free College Is Dead in Congress, but It’s Alive and Well in the States  (Chronicle of Higher Education)
‍How to Improve the Student Loan System  (NAS Minding the Campus)