June 27, 2011
First Things editor R.R. Reno takes a look at the ongoing discussion about the connection between ever-increasing costs at academic institutions and the large number of faculty members who do little......
June 27, 2011
In the second of three installments, Peter Wood examines the impact of the sustainability movement on free inquiry and the the unfortunate experience of one scientist who dissented from the views of......
June 24, 2011
William Young concludes his series on the goals of the sustainability movement, and considers its implications for the constitutional order.
June 24, 2011
Student reporters take a look at the question of faculty diversity, the value of a college degree, the philosophical implications of hashtags and the need to re-think our basic educational prioritie......
June 23, 2011
I noted recently that the US Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) had mandated new standards under which colleges and universities recieving federal funds would be obligated to i......
June 23, 2011
In the third of his four-part series on the goals of the sustainability movement, William Young ponders its probable economic impact.
June 23, 2011
NAS president Peter Wood begins a three-part critique of the sustainability movement, based on his attendance at two recent conferences.
June 22, 2011
There's an interesting review over at NRO of Ross Perlin's Intern Nation, a book that examines the growing and almost wholly invisible number of unpaid intern positions that are eagerly staf......
June 22, 2011
In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, Professor Murray Sperber points out that most college courses do little or nothing to help students become good (or even moderately competent) at that mo......
June 22, 2011
The California Association of Scholars steps up its opposition to proposed legislation which would authorize the use of racial preferences in college admissions. Have the state's legislators for......
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....
