March 31, 2010

Administrators and Academic Freedom

Peter Wood

Anyone who is committed to the search for truth through rational inquiry and dispassionate and scrupulous use of evidence deserves the protection of academic freedom.

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March 30, 2010

Get NAS Email Alerts!

Ashley Thorne

Want to keep up with NAS but don't have time to go to our website every day? Sign up for email updates! We have a newly installed box at the top left corner of all pages of our website that says......

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March 30, 2010

Peter Wood Radio Interview on Federal Direct Lending

Ashley Thorne

Cross posted from NAS.org NAS President Peter Wood appeared on the University Talk radio program to speak about federal direct lending as included in the reconciliation bill. He talked about ho......

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March 30, 2010

Debate: Common Core Standards in K-12?

Ashley Thorne

Under pressure, 48 states have proposed common standards for grades K-12. Some of them are having second thoughts. Chester Finn says the standards should be taken seriously because they’re int......

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March 30, 2010

John Ellis Makes a Case for Intellectual Diversity

Ashley Thorne

"A lack of intellectual diversity hurts both left and right," contended John Ellis in a statement last week to the Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education of the California Legislatu......

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March 30, 2010

Roger Clegg: 6 Things to Say to Challenge "Diversity" Hiring

Ashley Thorne

For those readers who serve on faculty hiring committees, Roger Clegg, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, offers strategies for speaking up when the committee begins to talk about "diver......

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March 30, 2010

10 Campus Sustainability News Stories

Ashley Thorne

Colleges create new sustainability programs and requirements, ASU publishes a student journal, universities participated in WWF's Earth Hour, and the sustainability generation comes of age.

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March 30, 2010

Collegiate Press Roundup 3-30-10

Glenn Ricketts

Students weigh in on hatred, social justice, the dying flame of feminism, gender inclusive language, Ann Coulter, and campus protest tactics.

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March 29, 2010

In Case You Missed It: Social Justice and Other Buzzwords

Ashley Thorne

John Leo, editor of Minding the Campus, published an article on National Review Online called "Code Words." He links Glenn Beck's warning about "social justice" to other code words of the campus......

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March 29, 2010

Ann Coulter's Speech at U Ottawa Cancelled Amid Threats

Ashley Thorne

Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter was scheduled to speak at the University of Ottawa last week, having been invited by a student group at the campus. In anticipation of her speech, the University&#......

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