March 25, 2015

Sustainability: Higher Education's New Fundamentalism

Peter Wood

The first critical account of the sustainability movement in higher education.

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March 25, 2015

Sustainability FAQs

Peter Wood

The authors of the report Sustainability: Higher Education's New Fundamentalism answer frequently asked questions about sustainability and the NAS's positions.

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March 25, 2015

Report Shows Campus Sustainability Movement Restricts Debate, Harms College Finances

National Association of Scholars

PRESS RELEASE: The NAS releases the first in-depth critical report on the campus sustainability movement. 

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March 25, 2015

Executive Summary - Sustainability: Higher Education's New Fundamentalism

Peter Wood

The authors of an NAS report critiquing the campus sustainability movement make 10 recommendations for colleges and universities. 

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March 24, 2015

Reporters Explain Why Balance Isn't Needed on Global Warming

Rachelle Peterson

Elite journalists gathered at Columbia University say they have no need to listen to or even acknowledge skeptics of anthropogenic global warming.

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March 23, 2015

Knowledge of American History Rapidly Becoming History

Glenn Ricketts

What do most students know about US history? Very little. What to do about it? Good question.

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March 18, 2015

Obama's NLRB Pushes Faculty Unionization

George Leef

An economics professor explains why he regards faculty unionization as bad law.

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March 17, 2015

Tucked In: The Legacy of Goodnight Moon

Peter Wood

The 1945 bedtime story Goodnight Moon remains a classic invocation of peacefulness and home.

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March 16, 2015

Donor Intent Wins at Trinity College

George Leef

A battle over a philanthropic endowment at Trinity College ends as a victory for donor intent.

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March 16, 2015

Scholars Ask Supreme Court to Revisit Fisher and Rationales for Racial Preferences

National Association of Scholars

The NAS joined a petition to the Supreme Court to re-hear Fisher v. University of Texas, the case that challenges racial preferences in public university admissions.

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