Since ChatGPT's release, "excellent" grades in AI-compatible courses have risen 30% at one selective university. The deeper problem is that higher education built a credentialing system it can no longer defend.
The Fifth Circuit's 9-8 ruling allowing Ten Commandments displays in Texas classrooms wasn't a legal argument that won — it was a judicial majority that was built. Trump's appellate appointments made this outcome possible.
Florida's new domestic terror designation law gives the governor unilateral power to label organizations and remove university students who support them — no federal oversight, no judicial review, no defined evidentiary standard.
The Trump administration demands seven years of admissions data from Stanford, Ohio State, and UC San Diego medical schools, targeting diversity programs that train doctors for underserved communities.
Florida's Board of Governors voted to remove Introduction to Sociology as a graduation requirement at all state universities, targeting the discipline that teaches students to analyze power structures and social inequality.
Sociology faculty across Florida are quietly refusing to comply with state restrictions on teaching race, gender, and inequality, viewing censored curricula as incompatible with academic integrity.
Universities are forcing handwritten exams to prevent AI cheating, but the 'solution' discriminates against disabled students, multilingual learners, and anyone taking online classes.
A federal appeals court just ruled that a California principal violated a 6-year-old's free speech rights when he threatened to call police over her Black Lives Matter drawing.