August 8, 2011

AQ Editor Carol Iannone Quoted on White Privilege

Ashley Thorne

The Omaha World-Herald quotes Academic Questions editor-at-large Carol Iannone on whether emphasizing "white privilege" has educational benefits.

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August 8, 2011

Leftist (Not Liberal) Learning for the Profession

Jason Fertig

Jason Fertig reviews Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education, and finds its proposed curricular reforms too ideologically skewed.

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August 5, 2011

Some Praise for Carnevale's Latest Study

George Leef

I haven’t read it yet, but Neal McCluskey finds the latest study released by Anthony Carnevale’s Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce to be valuable. Neal’s take on it......

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August 5, 2011

Post Partisan University?

Glenn Ricketts

Check out this piece at IHE today, where the author discusses the lopsided ideological imbalance that currently rules the American academy and the fact that so many in the professoriate are obliviou......

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August 5, 2011

Madness and Civilization

Peter Wood

NAS President Peter Wood responds to the Manifesto of Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik.

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August 5, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student journalists take some shots at Congress's debt deal, the medical uses of marijuana, the value of a liberal arts education and why you can't be strictly honest with your parents about......

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August 5, 2011

Climate Thuggery

Peter Wood

NAS president Peter Wood ponders the difficulties of discussing climate change calmly and rationally.

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August 4, 2011

Climate Thugs Get Thuggish

Glenn Ricketts

Climate change, NAS president Peter Wood argues at his CHE blog, is not an easy subject to discuss calmly and rationally these days, especially in most academic precincts. Even the slightest dissent......

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August 4, 2011

Jan Blits on Campus Liberty

Ashley Thorne

At a recent gathering of college students, Professor Jan Blits, NAS's Delaware affiliate head, urged students not to take liberty for granted.

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August 3, 2011

AQ Author David French and Wife Publish Book on Serving in Iraq War

Ashley Thorne

Academic Questions author David French and his wife Nancy were interviewed on the 700 Club last month (8-minute video), discussing their new book, Here and Away, about their experiences during his t......

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July 30, 2024

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Don’t Cry for Them, Academia

The dark secret of anti-Semitism is that ignorance alone cannot explain it away or absolve those who adhere to it. If anything, the most vivid episodes of history’s anti-Semitism have......

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Professor Alleges "Widespread" Discriminatory Hiring Coverup at University of Washington

Audio acquired by the National Association of Scholars describes allegations of coverup race-based hiring coverup at the University of Washington...

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Remembering Warren Winiarski

Peter Wood writes on the passing of Warren Winiarski, a long-time supporter and friend of the National Association of Scholars, who sought to cultivate civilization and the liberal arts......

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May 15, 2015

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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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Professor Alleges "Widespread" Discriminatory Hiring Coverup at University of Washington

Audio acquired by the National Association of Scholars describes allegations of coverup race-based hiring coverup at the University of Washington...

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DEI vs. Academic Integrity at University of Washington

FOIA requests found evidence of racial discrimination at the University of Washington. A professor now accuses the University of a cover-up. A leading scholar of "whiteness" is accus......