The Price We Pay for Performative Progressivism in Higher Education — Minding The Campus

The Price We Pay for Performative Progressivism in Higher Education — Minding The Campus

“On today’s college campuses, students are not maturing — they’re managing. Beneath a facade of progressive slogans and institutional virtue-signaling lies a quiet psychological crisis, driven by the demands of ideological conformity.” Researchers Forest Romm and Kevin Waldman just published a devastating portrait of undergraduate life at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan, “Performative […] The post The Price We Pay for Perf…

Performative virtue-signaling has become a threat to higher ed

By Forest Romm and Kevin Waldman | The Hill On today’s college campuses, students are not maturing — they’re managing. Beneath a facade of progressive slogans and institutional virtue-signaling lies a quiet psychological crisis, driven by the demands of ideological conformity. Between 2023 and 2025, we conducted 1,452 confidential interviews with undergraduates at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. We were not studying polit…