May 6, 2020

Academic Freedom and Online Education

National Association of Scholars

Academic freedom is under threat now more than ever, as administrators hold unprecedented control over the form and content of distance learning.

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May 6, 2020

Protect and Defend Freedom of the Press.

Zachary R. Wood

I urge everyone who cares about the First Amendment to protect and defend freedom of the press against all adversaries — today, tomorrow, and every day.

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May 6, 2020

If Academia Gets a Bailout, It Should Come With These Conditions

David Randall

Taxpayers should only be generous to colleges and universities that are prudent stewards of their money, defenders of American national interests, and guarantors of liberty.

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May 5, 2020

Critical Care: A Plan to Restore Higher Education

David Acevedo

NAS is proud to announce Critical Care, our plan to restore American higher education in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

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May 5, 2020

Learning How to Die

David Randall

Make our hospices our preparatory schools. Perhaps then we will have professors who can truly teach and students who can truly learn.

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May 4, 2020

Pulitzer and the Politicization of American History

Christopher Kendall

How did a piece of historical commentary that misrepresents central elements of the American founding, rejects rigorous historical analysis, and elevates proudly biased distortions of history win the......

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May 1, 2020

The Great Reveal

Steve Balch

In describing these days will future historians employ as metaphor a pressure cooker about to explode or sheep being led to slaughter?

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May 1, 2020

Open Letter: Urge the President to Rescue American Higher Ed Through Reform

National Association of Scholars

We are urging the President to rescue American higher education. He must lead Congress to pass a bailout linked to regulatory reform that will make our colleges and universities the greatest......

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May 1, 2020

Toolkit: Critical Care

Rachelle Peterson

Use this toolkit to advocate for the principles that should guide any federal support for higher education during the coronavirus pandemic. 

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April 30, 2020

Failing Our Students in a Crisis

John O. McGinnis

Technological progress will not maximize learning if our educational institutions are mired in an ideology that prevents full use of the tools.

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Where Did We Get the Idea That Only White People Can Be Racist?

A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....

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Ask a Scholar: What is the True Definition of Latino?

What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...

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10 Reasons Not to Go to College

A sampling of arguments for the idea that college may not be for everyone....