Last week NAS released a new list of books colleges assign as common reading. It includes over 100 additions and updates to the original (Beach Books), making it the most comprehensive and current resource on campus common reading in 2010. Our major finding this time: 93% of top universities have common reading programs. Click here to read the report. Click here to view the updated list.
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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....
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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....
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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....
