May 11, 2011
A Pope Center event brings together a plurality of views to find common goals for higher education reform.
May 9, 2011
In the Chronicle's blog Innovations, NAS president Peter Wood weighs in on the controversy over the CUNY board's decision not to award Tony Kushner an honorary degree. Kushner has received 1......
May 9, 2011
At least that's what you'd think if you didn't read anything besides the Chronicle of Higher Education or its online counterpart, Inside Higher Education. I've long lost count of the......
May 9, 2011
A controversy is raging concerning CUNY Trustee Jeffrey Wiesenfeld's objections to John Jay College's proposal to grant an honorary degree to playwright Tony Kushner.
May 9, 2011
When I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, the stereotypical bowdlerizers of speech--the people excising "offensive" lyrics and literature--were the uptight blue-nosed sort who feared that "someone, som......
May 9, 2011
As Phyllis Schlafly's guest on national radio, Peter Wood spoke about the influence of sustainability ideology on our universities and answered questions from callers about what this means for o......
May 9, 2011
"Grant-seeking is enforcing a tremendous orthodoxy within the academic world in science, which is precisely where orthodoxy should not be maintained."
May 9, 2011
A faculty response and apology appear in the student newspaper after a professor censured a senior for writing an opinion article questioning President Obama's leadership.
May 6, 2011
In today's Pope Center piece, Jenna Ashley Robinson continues examining the case that higher education is a bubble that may burst or at least deflate. Among other evidence she presents, long-ter......
May 6, 2011
Despite most people's willingness to dismiss their intellectual capabilities, high school students can rise to high standards if we expect them to.
July 30, 2024
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......
September 6, 2024
Audio acquired by the National Association of Scholars describes allegations of coverup race-based hiring coverup at the University of Washington...
June 20, 2024
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......
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....
September 6, 2024
Audio acquired by the National Association of Scholars describes allegations of coverup race-based hiring coverup at the University of Washington...
September 18, 2024
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......
