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Read thoughts and initiatives from the National Association of Scholars.

March 19, 2010

Monopoly to Marketplace: Diversifying Higher Ed from Inside and Out

Ashley Thorne

NAS is uniquely positioned to influence higher education for the good. As a non-profit organization, we are outside academia, free of its entanglements and able to provide a detached point of view. As......

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March 18, 2010

Duncan Donuts

Ashley Thorne

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan insists that “a college degree is still absolutely worth it.” Is he right?

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March 18, 2010

Newsletter from BAMN...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

The thuggish group calling itself the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) is trying to take down Propositio......

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March 18, 2010

Arab Scholars Speak

Peter Wood

An Atlanta conference of the Institute for American Values gathers Middle Eastern intellectuals at the launch of the online journal IjtihadReason.

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March 17, 2010

Government Higher Ed Takeover Looms, NAS Reports

Ashley Thorne

Federal control of the student loan industry could mean serious unintended consequences for the university.

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