December 23, 2011
After racial epithets were scrawled on a Williams College dormitory wall, the president of Williams all but sent in a S.W.A.T. team in response: he ordered classes and athletic practices cancelled,......
December 23, 2011
Admitting poorly prepared minority students to demanding programs in the hard sciences or engineering at elite schools may make admissions officers or affirmative action supporters feel good about t......
December 23, 2011
Student writers offer suggestions for tweaking anti-bullying laws, applaud President Obama's use of the bully pulpit, endorse the incarceration of corrupt politicians and marvel at meeting an op......
December 22, 2011
Inside Higher Ed today has a story about a new book by a professor on hip-hop culture in college. In the interview, the author says, ”Hip-hop collegians are college students who create hip-hop......
December 22, 2011
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, an organization that shares many of the interests of NAS, offers an annual fellowship, named after William E. Simon, to exceptional graduating college seniors.