April 19, 2020
Fred Hess proposes that higher education switch all admissions processes to a random lottery. While the idea is unique, it is likely to create more problems than it solves.
April 18, 2020
Higher education is a top-heavy ship that is quickly sinking under the weight of its own administration. Schools should be allowed to toss some of their cargo overboard.
April 17, 2020
Dan Proft interviews NAS president Peter Wood on how American college and universities profit from foreign funding and recruitment.
April 16, 2020
If you’re looking for the magic remedy that will cure the present academic deficiencies that plague American higher education, please don’t expect to find it in online teaching.
April 15, 2020
In his forthcoming book, John Ellis proposes strong legislative action to combat the ideological homogeneity within American higher education.
April 14, 2020
Despite its particular challenges, the history of Plymouth Colony is an absolutely vital aspect of the American founding. We ought to treat it as such.
April 14, 2020
American universities should always serve American interests—not serve as a machine to employ compradors and promote acquiescent collaborators to foreign strip-mining of America.
April 11, 2020
The coronavirus emergency has forcibly brought to light much of the flagrant wastefulness within higher education. Why not take this opportunity to trim the fat before next semester?
April 10, 2020
The financial implications of the coronavirus pandemic have put many colleges, particularly of the small, private variety, on a death watch.
April 9, 2020
It's time to say goodbye to our decade-long survey of college common readings.
October 29, 2024
Today’s Middle Eastern Studies Centers are facing a crisis due to the winds of change in the Middle East and their own ideological echo chamber....
November 19, 2024
NAS welcomes the nomination of Congressmen Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency....
November 20, 2024
With McMahon, the new administration has a chance to drastically slim down and depoliticize the Education Department....
May 15, 2015
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....
October 12, 2010
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?...
May 26, 2010
A sampling of arguments for the idea that college may not be for everyone....
