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Explore the debate and science of Higher Ed Reform.

April 15, 2025

Higher Ed Digs In, Refuses Reform

Kali Jerrard

Though higher ed scoffs at Trump’s push to gut toxic campus ideologies, don’t expect change anytime soon.

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March 31, 2025

Keeping Watch

Peter Wood

Columbia's descent into chaos is by its own hand. Actions to right the university must be swift and tough.

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March 25, 2025

The Future of Federal Student Loans

Kali Jerrard

The Trump administration’s decision to move the federal student loan portfolio to the Small Business Administration is being met with controversy.

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March 24, 2025

A Reckoning for Higher Education?

Teresa R. Manning

Are American colleges and universities finally getting their comeuppance?

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March 11, 2025

Defund and Deport, But Eliminating Campus Anti-Semitism Means Going After Professors

Ian Oxnevad

Higher education is so replete with anti-Semitism as a norm in elite schools that eliminating the scourge of Jew-hate will require broad changes to one of higher education’s central feature......

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December 10, 2024

Education Priorities for Trump: Yes to Excellence and Accountability, No to Ideology and Business as Usual

Teresa R. Manning

The National Association of Scholars calls for Trump’s education policies to prioritize excellence, accountability, and school responsibility for student loans while rejecting ideological influe......

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November 5, 2024

The Next President Should . . .

Chance Layton

Higher ed reforms for the next administration and Congress.

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February 14, 2024

Utah's Senate Bill 226 Restores Western Civ Education

National Association of Scholars

The National Association of Scholars and the Civics Alliance enthusiastically endorse Utah Senate Bill 226, the School of General Education Act. If Utah passes SB 226 into law, it will become a l......

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October 26, 2023

Studies Departments Must Ditch Anti-Semitism

David Randall

Columbia’s illness is far deeper than one intemperate professor. Its institutions and culture should be reformed to root out every administrative tolerance for or complicity in Jew-hatred.

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July 20, 2023

Reform at Scale: A Map of NAS Initiatives by State

National Association of Scholars

UPDATED: An official tracker of the NAS and Civics Alliance's higher education reform efforts by state. We are working to defend academic freedom for faculty, students, and others, along......

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