April 26, 2010
The following column on George Orwell's advice to free students from bad academic writing is worth reading: http://chronicle.com/article/Bad-WritingBad-Thinking/65031/?sid=ja&utm_source=ja......
April 26, 2010
NAS Chairman Steve Balch answers a sneer against NAS and its efforts to revive the study of Western civilization.
April 26, 2010
NAS board member Herbert London suggests ways colleges and universities can save money in this time of budget cuts.
April 23, 2010
In today's Pope Center article, Professors Don Boudreaux and Roger Meiners write about the recent law that lets the federal camel get its nose under the textbook tent. The argue that the law wil......
April 23, 2010
I have recently finished an article for a future Academic Questions on the difficult place in which Classical Music finds itself in the Academy. I also suggest that the problem is a symptomatic of a......
April 23, 2010
A teen went public about her failing high school -- a sick, sick place in Brooklyn where students have sex and smoke dope in the stairwells, where pregnancies and smoking pot are the stuff of e......
April 23, 2010
New research seeks to show why so few conservatives choose an academic profession. NAS Chairman Steve Balch weighs the evidence.
April 22, 2010
California State University at Chico’s president, Paul Zingg, has just circulated a draft “diversity action plan for 2010-2015” titled To Form a More Inclusive Learning C......
April 22, 2010
In honor of Earth Day, Peter Wood examines the sustainability movement's Bookchin-born theory that "everything is connected to everything else." An excerpt: What about that idea that that huma......
April 22, 2010
Issues in student news stories this week range from diversity, drug use, and the Tea Party, to grade inflation, apologies for inciting hate, and teaching tolerance.
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....
