May 13, 2010
A project I have been imaging for a long time is now actually a reality. The Center for the Study of American Ideals and Culture has received its first funding, from the new Apgar Foundation. With t......
May 13, 2010
So the Provost sent out a year end wrap-up. For those of you who don't know, it hasn't been good year for academe, particularly here in Arizona. The income side of the fiscal picture is a di......
May 13, 2010
Student journalists write about the ongoing controversy over Arizona’s new immigration law, the dark side of sophisticated communications technologies, the National Day of Prayer, Washington,......
May 13, 2010
Arizona has passed a bill to end La Raza studies, which taught elementary school students to see America as a clash between whites and Chicanos.
May 12, 2010
We are pleased to announce that the current issue of Academic Questions, a special issue on “Sustainability,” is available FREE online!
May 12, 2010
In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, John Eick (our intern and a student at UNC-Chapel Hill) writes about his experience in a "Diversity 101" training session. Turns out that this amounted t......
May 12, 2010
NAS predictions are coming true as the University of California opts for online undergraduate education.
May 12, 2010
Is the climate fraud investigation a breach or an exercise of academic freedom?
May 11, 2010
This symposium by eight student writers provides an inside view of campus life today and appeared in the "Student Culture" issue of Academic Questions (vol. 23, no. 2).
May 10, 2010
I just hosted a three-week colloquium exploring the relationship between great books and democracy which featured former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, classicist and military historian......
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....
