September 1, 2023
Looking for a new book to read? Check out the summer reads of the NAS staff!
October 23, 2019
NAS Policy Director Rachelle Peterson evaluates the current state of common reading programs, beginning with a bizarre choice by Lackawanna College in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
February 8, 2019
A State Representative in Iowa has introduced a bill to make Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago a required read for high school graduation.
November 20, 2018
A comment on a recent study noting the unchallenging nature of common reading program books.
October 12, 2018
Common reading programs should be for exposing college students to excellent literature, not propaganda.
August 29, 2016
Students at Virginia Tech and other universities are being "nudged" into diversity with a new and costly not-for-credit course.
May 17, 2016
NAS Director of Communications David Randall writes about Beach Books in North Carolina.
March 19, 2016
NAS Director of Communications David Randall discusses the proper role of comic books in a liberal education.
March 14, 2016
Executive Director Ashley Thorne writes about college common readings in The Chronicle.