December 22, 2011
Inside Higher Ed today has a story about a new book by a professor on hip-hop culture in college. In the interview, the author says, ”Hip-hop collegians are college students who create hip-hop......
December 22, 2011
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, an organization that shares many of the interests of NAS, offers an annual fellowship, named after William E. Simon, to exceptional graduating college seniors.
December 22, 2011
Peter Wood says students and faculty typically win when colleges build their curricula around a “common core,” but that the City University of New York’s common core is an exceptio......
December 22, 2011
William Young examines the traditional Western view of voluptuousness in light of contemporary hedonism and self-gratification.
December 22, 2011
That is the question that Lenore Ealy addresses in today’s Pope Center Clarion Call. She looks quite a way back into the 20th century to see how the classical-liberal philanthropists of the po......
December 21, 2011
Historian KC Johnson explains why it's been a very bad week for academic freedom.
December 21, 2011
The New York Association of Scholars and the CUNY Association Scholars will have Jonathan Brent speak on "Soviet Archives and the Struggle for Truth in History" as their first event of 2012.
December 21, 2011
Free speech seems to be ever more unpopular on college campuses these days, where it’s increasingly regarded as an unwelcome nuisance. The administration at Drake University have decided that......
December 20, 2011
A panel of three judges has ruled that Christian beliefs about homosexuality disqualified a student from pursuing a degree in counseling.
December 20, 2011
Online courses are very popular with students, and have the enthusiastic endorsement of senior academic administrators. The only problem, says J.M. Anderson, is that the students aren't learning......
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....
