Announcements
Articles
07/24/08: Dizzy Diversity: Chapter 7
On Getting Under the Skin of "Diversity" by Larry Purdy. Purdy, one of the lawyers who represented Jennifer Gratz and Barbara Grutter in the U.S. Supreme Court cases Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger, takes us inside an upside down house.
07/17/08: Gone, Daddy, Gone
College Students get little encouragement to esteem the traditional family from the redefined-family curriculum and "hooking-up" dorm culture.
07/16/08: Rebuilding Campus Community: The Wrong Imperative
A Statement of the National Association of Scholars
07/16/08: If I Ran the Zoo XIII
The zoo runs on, with Ammon Allred's Seussian verse on what matters in higher education.
07/15/08: If I Ran the Zoo XII
By blogger "anotherpanacea," a professor of philosophy in the Washington, D.C. area
Initiatives
07/18/08: The Communitarian ResLife Movement
How Many Delawares?
What exactly is the ideology underlying res life programs today? Sustainability? Communitariansim? Social Justice? Oh my.
06/17/08: Business-as-Usual Bureaucrats
Picnic with
“I-Despise-America” Ideologues
The Scandal of Social Work Education
How state social work boards responded to "The Scandal of Social Work Education."
So far.
06/06/08: Coercing the Conscience: New Examples of the Reign of Intolerance in Schools of Social Work
The Scandal of Social Work Education
We're seeing more of the scandal of social work iceberg. Two students' case have come to light, showing once again how social work programs disregard students' personal convictions.
05/27/08: We'll Be Watching
How Many Delawares?
The University of Delaware’s Board of Trustees approved a new “enhanced Residence Life Education Program” at its annual May meeting.
05/21/08: Bugged
The Scandal of Social Work Education
A blogger aims to subvert NASW and social work ideologues.
Press Releases
05/02/08: University of Delaware Could Reinstate Residence Life Indoctrination Program
The University of Delaware has proposed a new program for residence life that looks just like the former program, known on campus as "the treatment." NAS exposed the abuses of UD's residence life curriculum last fall, and we now urge the Faculty Senate to vote against this proposal at their meeting on Monday, May 5.
04/07/08: Evidence Defeats Opponents of Michigan Racial Preferences Ban
NAS publishes an article unfolding how evidence of racial preferences' detriments stopped opponents of Michigan Civil Rights Initiative.
Briefly Noted
07/07/08: Backstage Acting
NAS welcomes In Character, a journal about everyday virtues. In seeking to restore higher education to its "higher" quality, we must pursue the moral uplift of the university. This thoughtful journal takes steps toward that goal; by looking at virtue through the lens of public policy, the humanities, religion, and the sciences, In Character holds up the standard of integrity.
06/25/08: No Fire Escape for the Copyist
This week, Columbia announced its decision to fire Madonna Constantine, a Teachers College professor who in October said she found a noose on her office doorknob.