June 26, 2017

NAS Co-Hosts Event Featuring Carly Fiorina

National Association of Scholars

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and former presidential candidate Carly Fiorina spoke about leadership at a private event.

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June 22, 2017

Toward an American Liberal Education

John Agresto

In the Summer 2017 Academic Questions (vol. 30, no. 2), John Agresto argues the usefulness and value of a liberal education in twenty-first century America.

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June 21, 2017

Five Telling Campus Outbreaks of the 2016-17 Academic Year

National Association of Scholars

Peter Wood comments on troubling stories from American higher education this past academic year.

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June 21, 2017

How College Bureaucrats Tyrannize a Professor Who Crosses Them

National Association of Scholars

Peter Wood provides an update on an intellectual freedom case at Springfield College.

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June 19, 2017

Why Did They Riot? Berkeley’s Bellicose Culture

Glynn Custred

The entirety of a six-part essay, Why Did They Riot? Berkeley’s Bellicose Culture, by anthropologist Glynn Custred, on the anti-free-speech movement at UC Berkeley

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June 16, 2017

American Higher Education

Glynn Custred

The sixth of a six-part essay, Why Did They Riot? Berkeley’s Bellicose Culture, by anthropologist Glynn Custred, on the anti-free-speech movement at UC Berkeley.

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June 15, 2017

Fix Accreditation to End Protectionism in Higher Education

Spencer Kashmanian

Spencer Kashmanian writes about the need to reform accreditation requirements.

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June 14, 2017

An Institution out of Control

Glynn Custred

The fifth of a six-part essay, Why Did They Riot? Berkeley’s Bellicose Culture, by anthropologist Glynn Custred, on the anti-free-speech movement at UC Berkeley.

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June 14, 2017

Director of Binghamton University’s Confucius Institute Responds to NAS Report

National Association of Scholars

Professor Zu-yan Chen and Rachelle Peterson discuss NAS's report on Confucius Institutes.

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June 12, 2017

NAS Has Moved!

National Association of Scholars

Visit us at 5th Avenue and 46th Street. 

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