This week NAS published our new website’s 400th article. We launched our made-over website in March 2008, carried over a few articles from the old site, and jumped deliberately into the journalistic spirit of the times. Since then, we have built up momentum, providing timely commentary on what’s happening in the higher education world. When just now we paused to take stock of our labor, we were cheered to see how far our steady practice has taken us.
We’re still working out some issues with our search engine, and we hope soon to have a comprehensive index system that will enable readers to easily find articles by college, by topic, by author, etc. Right now our essays are categorized by month, and we fear that many of our best may be hidden away in the dark archives of “Articles by Date.”
Let’s see how well you’ve kept up with us. Did you see the piece by Wendy Shalit on the campus hookup culture? Did you know NAS investigated U Mass Amherst’s undergraduate program in socialism? Or that we invited readers to “Ask a Scholar” their most pressing questions that Wikipedia can’t answer? Or that NAS took its own diversity education course?
We broke the news when a university offered course credit for Obama campaign volunteers, and when Virginia Tech set up a way to filter out faculty members who did not embrace “diversity” service. We “fisked” the most recent major AAUP statement, providing what AAUP President Cary Nelson said was “the only really intellectually detailed and thorough critique” out of over 600 responses received by the organization.
Friends of ours wrote in, imagining how they would run the higher ed zoo. “Margaret Matthews,” an Argus volunteer, recounted being told by her university that she couldn’t transfer out of her “diversity” job because it would be difficult “finding another black woman to replace you.” And having noticed a “Wall of Secrets” in a campus building, NAS explored the college-encouraged concept of therapy secret-telling. After that, we told some of our secrets.
So go ahead, learn our secrets. Find the articles you missed before. And stick around for our next 400.
Here are some of our “highlight” articles. You can find them by topic, by special series, by college/university, or by date.
By Topic
Academic Freedom
Freedom Bound: The AAUP Presidential Election
Debate: The Meaning of Academic Freedom (Video)
Academic Freedom is a Public Trust
Virginia Tech, Academic Freedom, and Employment Law
Bias Reporting
Snitch Studies at Cal Poly: We Snare Because We Care
Curriculum
Diversity
What Does a Chief Diversity Officer Actually Do?
What You Learn Depends on What (and Whom) You Ask
Sustainability is the New Diversity
More Researchers Try to Measure Diversity’s Effects
“The Only Work I Can Get Around Here Involves Diversity Programs”
Millennium Falcon: The Bias Birds of Prey
Virginia Tech, Round Two: Staging Diversity
Finance
What Does Sustainability Have to Do with Student Loans?
America’s Financial Crisis and Higher Education
LGBT
LSU Retreats to its “Safe Space”
“Gender Identity” Restrooms at U Arizona
Plagiarism
The Copyist: The Plagiarist and the Noose
Noose Professor Cites NAS in Lawsuit
Politics
Disruption: Advising the Next President
Fairy Tales for Freshmen: Mile-High Propaganda
No Big Deal...But Many Small Ones
Acknowledging the “Knowledge-Politics Problem”
College Credit for Campaign Volunteers
Racial Preferences
Preferring Merit: Why Racial Preferences Are Worse than Legacy Admissions
The Effects of Proposition 209 on California: Higher Education, Public
How Preferences Have Corrupted Higher Education
Hiring Discrimination and Quotas at OSU
Residence Life
Psychotherapeutic Interventions, Transformative Learning, and the Dorms of U
Are the Dorms Being Politicized? (Video)
UD Faculty, Students Stand Up Against Res Life Proposal
Never Mind Tocqueville, Let’s List Slurs
Sexual Harassment
Sexual Harassment Training and Collective Guilt
Now It Can Be Told! Revelations from the Secret Annals of Sexual Harassment
Sustainability
Human Nature: NAS Attends an Environmental Justice Conference
What Does Sustainability Have to Do with Student Loans?
Tap Dancers: Bottled Water and College Students
Comment on NPR’s Broadcast, “The Cost of Being Green”
Sustainability is the New Diversity
Proven Commitment to the Climate
Sustainability Education’s New Morality
Student Culture
Is College Driving Students to Drink?
Facebook and the Future of the University
Therapeutic U
Psychotherapeutic Interventions, Transformative Learning, and the Dorms of U Delaware
Slouching Toward the Therapeutic University: Part 1
Slouching Toward the Therapeutic University: Part 2
Slouching Toward the Therapeutic University: Part 3
Miscellaneous
By Special Series
How Many Delawares? (22)
Scandal of Social Work Education (17)
Academic Questions Samples (11)
Ask a Scholar (5)
If I Ran the Zoo (17)
Argus Project (15)
By College/University
Brandeis University
Cal Poly
Snitch Studies at Cal Poly: We Snare Because We Care
Caltech
Columbia University
The Copyist: The Plagiarist and the Noose
Noose Professor Cites NAS in Lawsuit
CSU-Chico
Sustainability Education’s New Morality
Duke University
Stick to the Facts: Why Duke was Ready to Believe the Duke Lacrosse Hoax
Los Angeles City College
Louisiana State University
LSU Retreats to its “Safe Space”
Loyola University
Macalester College
Macalester Preps for World Domination
Metropolitan State College
Fairy Tales for Freshmen: Mile-High Propaganda
Miskatonic University
Ohio State University
Hiring Discrimination and Quotas at OSU
Queens College
Rhode Island College
Southern New Hampshire University, Salem
No Maintenance At All: Just Education
Texas A&M International University
The New School
University of Arizona
Stop the Hate and Celebrate: The University of Arizona Purges
“Gender Identity” Restrooms at U Arizona
University of Delaware
Psychotherapeutic Interventions, Transformative Learning, and the Dorms of U
UD Faculty, Students Stand Up Against Res Life Proposal
Never Mind Tocqueville, Let’s List Slurs
University of Illinois
U Mass Amherst
No Big Deal...But Many Small Ones
College Credit for Campaign Volunteers
University of Vermont
University of Wisconsin, Fox Valley
Vote on Administrator’s Political Showcasing
Virginia Tech
Letter to VT from Virginia Association of Scholars
Virginia Tech, Academic Freedom, and Employment Law
Virginia Tech, Round Two: Staging Diversity
Virginia Tech’s “Inclusive” Rodomontade
Holding VT Accountable: Virginia Association of Scholars Writes Again
Virginia Tech Follies: Roanoke Edition
Virginia Tech Follies: Synergy Edition
Yeshiva College
Williams College
By Date
Fall Semester 2007
The Scandal of Social Work Education
09/11/07 By the NAS editors
A Response to the AAUP’s Report, “Freedom in the Classroom”
09/21/07 By the NAS editors
Psychotherapeutic Interventions, Transformative Learning, and the Dorms of U Delaware
12/11/07 By Tom Wood
Spring Semester 2008
02/21/08 By Ashley Thorne
02/29/08 By Peter Wood
04/07/08 By Terry Pell
Summer 2008
Rebuilding Campus Community: The Wrong Imperative
07/16/08 A Statement of the NAS
08/07/08 By Ashley Thorne
08/11/08 By Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne
08/26/08 By Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne
Fall Semester 2008
Protecting the Prickly: La Raza Studies
09/04/09 By Ashley Thorne
College Credit for Campaign Volunteers / About Face in Amherst
09/22/08 and 09/23/08 By Peter Wood
10/07/08 By Peter Wood
LSU Retreats to its “Safe Space”
10/10/08 By Ashley Thorne
10/31/08 By Ashley Thorne
10/31/08 By Peter Wood
11/06/09 By Ashley Thorne
Spring Semester 2009
Stick to the Facts: Why Duke was Ready to Believe the Duke Lacrosse Hoax (Video)
01/07/09 By Ashley Thorne
Part I: Genuine Academic Freedom
01/22/09 By Peter Wood
01/26/09 By Peter Wood
Debate: The Meaning of Academic Freedom (Video)
01/30/09 NAS 2009 Conference: Peter Wood vs. Cary Nelson
02/03/09 By Peter Wood and Glenn Ricketts
02/03/09 By Peter Wood
02/06/09 By Ashley Thorne
02/17/09 By Wendy Shalit
02/17/09 By Ashley Thorne
02/18/09 By Peter Wood
02/19/09 By Ashley Thorne
02/23/09 By Peter Wood
03/17/09 By Peter Wood
03/26/09 By Peter Wood
“The Only Work I Can Get Around Here Involves Diversity Programs”
04/07/09 By Margaret Matthews
Proven Commitment to the Climate
04/09/09 By Ashley Thorne
04/20/09 By Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne
04/23/09 By Ashley Thorne
04/27/09 By Douglas Campbell
American Character, The Remix: How Education is Shaping Us Today
04/28/09 By Peter Wood
Snitch Studies at Cal Poly: We Snare Because We Care
05/05/09 By Peter Wood
