February, 2020
NAS held a regional conference titled "Fixing Science: Practical Solutions for the Irreproducibility Crisis."
January, 2020
NAS publishes The Lost History of Western Civilization, a wide-ranging consideration of the academy’s role in producing America’s contemporary political and cultural divisions.
December, 2019
NAS publishes Social Justice Education in America, a comprehensive examination of the inner workings of social justice advocates at more than 60 universities and how they have insinuated themselves into the university system to propagandize students.
September, 2019
NAS publishes Beach Books 2017-2018, a report on how Yale University segregates students by race in recruitment, admissions, student orientations, student activities, counseling, academic programs, curriculum, and graduations.
May, 2019
NAS publishes Neo-Segregation at Yale, a study of how China exerts influence on American higher education by way of its Confucius Institutes.
January, 2018
NAS publishes The Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science, which describes the failure of a large amount of scientific research to discover true results because of slipshod use of statistics, groupthink, and flawed research techniques.
April, 2017
NAS publishes Outsourced to China, a study of how China exerts influence on American higher education by way of its Confucius Institutes.
January, 2017
NAS publishes Making Citizens: How American Universities Teach Civics, an in-depth report on how “the New Civics” substitutes progressive activism for traditional civics education..
June, 2016
NAS publishes The Dissappearing Continent, a critique of how progressive bias distorts the College Board’s Advanced Placement European History examination.
January, 2016
NAS publishes The Architecture of Intellectual FreedomThe Architecture of Intellectual Freedom, NAS President Peter Wood’s statement defining the place and importance of intellectual freedom.
November, 2015
NAS publishes Inside Divestment: The Illiberal Movement to Turn a Generation Against Fossil Fuels, a comprehensive account of the campus fossil fuel divestment movement.
March, 2015
NAS publishes Sustainability: Higher Education’s New Fundamentalism, the first critical account of the sustainability movement in higher education.
2014
NAS begins its successful campaign to reform the College Board’s Advanced Placement United States History examination.
April, 2013
NAS publishes What Does Bowdoin Teach? How a Contemporary Liberal Arts College Shapes Students, an in-depth case study to learn what a contemporary liberal arts college education consists of.
January, 2013
NAS publishes Recasting History: Are Race, Class, and Gender Dominating American History?, an investigation by the Texas Association of Scholars on whether race, class, and gender are displacing other important approaches to the study of American history.
September, 2011
NAS publishes new edition of Beach Books for the 2011-2012 academic year.
January, 2011
NAS launches the Center for the Study of the Curriculum to “document and to analyze important changes” to college curricula and “to propose improvements.”
2010
NAS publishes the first comprehensive study of college common reading programs and the books these programs assign, Beach Books: What Do Colleges and Universities Want Students to Read Outside Class?
2010
Stephen Balch receives the Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the American Conservative Union Foundation.
2009
Peter W. Wood becomes NAS’s second NAS president and Stephen Balch becomes chairman.
November, 2007
Stephen Balch receives the National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush for his contributions to liberal education.
September, 2007
NAS publishes The Scandal of Social Work Education, a report on the ideological mandates imposed on students at schools of social work in the United States.
2004
NAS creates the Association for the Study of Free Institutions, now head-quartered at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.
2003
NAS holds second national workshop for academic program designers at Princeton University with a focus on the study of free institutions.
2000
NAS publishes Losing the Big Picture: The Fragmentation of the English Major Since 1984, a study of the disintegration of the English major between 1964 and 1998.
1998
NAS helps establish The Historical Society, committed to fostering serious historical scholarship, now located at Boston University.
1997
NAS holds its first national workshop for academic program designers at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, with a focus on Great Books programs.
Novemeber, 1996
California voters pass Proposition 209—legislation drafted by NAS members, also known as the California Civil Rights Initiative—banning racial and ethnic discrimination in California public universities.
September, 1996
NAS publishes The Dissolution of General Education: 1914-1993, a report documenting the erosion of higher education’s commitment to providing undergraduates with a broad and rigorous exposure to major areas of knowledge.
1995
NAS proposes and helps establish the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), a higher education reform group devoted to working with governing boards and donors, now located in Washington, D.C.
1994
NAS proposes and helps establish the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (now the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers), dedicated to enriching the quality of literary scholarship, now located at Boston University.
1993
NAS, working with its members on campuses around the country, inaugurates a nationwide campaign to establish new academic programs on Western civilization, the study of free institutions and the American founding. Over forty such programs have since been created.
1992
NAS proposes and helps establish the American Association for Liberal Education (AALE), an accreditation body focused on liberal education, now located in Washington, D.C.
1988
The first issue of NAS’s quarterly journal Academic Questions is published.
1988
NAS’s first national membership conference is held in New York City.
1987
The National Association of Scholars opens its first office in Princeton, New Jersey.