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2 days ago | 
thecollegefix.com | Daniel Nuccio
Atmospheric scientist and University of Missouri Professor Anthony Lupo recently discovered the Midwest Missouri Weather page he maintained on Facebook for more than five years had “vanished” with no clear indication of why. The scholar told The College Fix it was taken down after he debated a follower regarding whether the Show-Me State’s busy tornado season was due to La Niña or climate change.
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2 weeks ago | 
thecollegefix.com | Daniel Nuccio
“We will resist obeying in advance,” said Dr. Jerry Kruse, dean of the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, as he recently laid out the institution’s response to executive orders from the Trump administration concerning DEI, gender, immigration, and other contentious issues. “We won’t do any anticipatory obedience,” he said. “The existing laws have not changed.
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3 weeks ago | 
thecollegefix.com | Daniel Nuccio
ANALYSIS: While most cuts focused on DEI-related grants, some eliminated projects appeared to represent traditional scienceThe Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has recently taken Elon Musk’s mostly proverbial chainsaw to more than 1,600 grants issued by the National Science Foundation.
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1 month ago | 
mindingthecampus.org | Daniel Nuccio
Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on May 14, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Far too many students are entering higher education ill-equipped to handle the rigors of collegiate-level science classes, according to professors who say they’ve had to alter their curricula to adjust to the new normal.
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1 month ago | 
thecollegefix.com | Daniel Nuccio
ANALYSIS: Independent-minded scholars push relatively new Franklin Standards to correct courseFar too many students are entering higher education ill-equipped to handle the rigors of collegiate-level science classes, according to professors who say they’ve had to alter their curricula to adjust to the new normal. What happened to the STEM brilliance of yesteryear, which put men on the moon and developed the atom bomb?
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1 month ago | 
thecollegefix.com | Daniel Nuccio
A panel of prominent female scholars took to the stage recently at one of the nation’s most prestigious STEM universities to debate the fiercely contested topic of sexism in science. “It’s 2025, not 1970,” said Christina Hoff Sommers, author and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, who argued against the need to close an alleged gender gap in STEM. “Look around,” Sommers said at the April 30 event. “The educational landscape has changed.
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2 months ago | 
mindingthecampus.org | Daniel Nuccio
Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on April 7, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. A controversial nationwide PhD initiative criticized for excluding white scholars recently removed racially exclusionary wording from its website.
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2 months ago | 
thecollegefix.com | Daniel Nuccio
‘To me, what I experienced was a clear infringement of academic freedom’“Should students just play along to go along? Or continue to feel deflated … all in the name of working toward the goal of being ‘anti-racist’ and ‘anti-oppressive’?”This is a question posed by Arnoldo Cantú, a former student in Colorado State University’s social work doctoral program.
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2 months ago | 
thecollegefix.com | Daniel Nuccio
Universities partnered with PhD Project face Education Department investigationsA controversial nationwide PhD initiative criticized for excluding white scholars recently removed racially exclusionary wording from its website. The U.S. Department of Education is currently investigating 45 universities alleged to be in violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act through partnerships with The PhD Project.
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Mar 18, 2025 | 
thecollegefix.com | Daniel Nuccio
An appellate court has reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a First Amendment retaliation claim against University of Illinois, Chicago by a law school professor there. The decision, made by the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals earlier this month, serves as the latest chapter in a conflict, initiated in December 2020 when Professor Jason Kilborn included a question containing a pair of censored slurs for African Americans and women in an exam for a civil procedure course.
