Oberlin's administrators miss the message sent by a $44 million verdict against the college.
A sordid little tale of crony capitalism under the guise of public philanthropy.
The U.S. Army War College disinvited scholar Raymond Ibrahim as deference to CAIR. This sets a dangerous precedent that threatens American interests and endangers the lives of American soldiers.
The City University of New York has a reputation for providing high-quality education to the poor, working class, and immigrants of New York City. CUNY Professor Martin Burke joins me to discuss CUNY's history and future.
Join us in welcoming our most recent addition to the NAS team!
The intertwined history of campus activism and anti-semitism.
A review of NAS board member Richard Vedder's new book, Restoring the Promise.
Rich Vedder discusses the economics behind the skyrocketing cost of higher education.
Colleges across the country segregate dorms, clubs, orientations, and graduations.
The NAS staff run through the news stories of the last month. Listen in as we discuss adversity scores, the college admissions scandal, and a Washington State law the reinstates racial preferences in hiring and admissions.
Six brave students take a stand for intellectual freedom.
Regulations often have unintended consequences such as hurting the very people they are written to protect. I speak with Philip Howard about common sense regulatory reforms that save money and make bureaucracies work.
NAS President Peter Wood criticizes the College Board's proposed new "adversity scores."
Join us today at 2:00 PM Eastern for a conference call to discuss the rise of neo-segregation—and what can be done to encourage integration. NAS’s lead researcher, Dion J. Pierre, will present NAS’s findings and some proposals for reform.
A conversation on the place of unions on campus, from faculty to grad students, and the recent case of St. Cloud University Professor Kathleen Uradnik. Our expert guest is an assistant professor at CUNY and a senior fellow at MI.
Oregon affiliate president Bruce Gilley weighs in against proposed curricular changes.
What purpose does civility serve? How can it be misused? Listen in as I discuss these questions and more with Rusty Reno.
Do you want to protect free thought on campus? Help NAS reform the Higher Education Act by using the tools in this handy toolkit!
Separate but Equal, Again? Dion J. Pierre argues that 65 years after Brown v. Board of Education, Yale still segregates students by race.
Did you miss our launch event? Read this for a brief of Peter Wood's and Dion J. Pierre's presentation. A link to the Livestream is included.
Join the NAS this Friday, May 3rd as we discuss free speech protections for the Higher Education Act.
NAS launches its latest report studying the history and growth of neo-segregation in American higher education.
More than 100 scholars and institutions sign a petition asking Congress to protect First Amendment rights on campus through the HEA.
Peter gives the best examples of where and how university administrations are rolling over to campus radicals.
Does grad school need reform? Professor Cassuto and I discuss this and the secret history of American crime stories.
More than 100 scholars and writers call on Congress to strip public universities of eligibility for federal student loans when they violate the First Amendment.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has asked all Florida university presidents to sign a resolution protecting free speech.
Peter is joined by his personal trainer for a conversation on the allure of a four-year degree, the struggles and debt these students face, and the light at the end of the tunnel.
Join the National Association of Scholars in Washington, D.C., on April 29, 2019, for the launch event of our latest report.
From an early age, Paul knew that ideas had consequences and that the worst of these could be terrible indeed.
Professor Hollander was an extraordinary man and a guiding hand to NAS.
The Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights negotiated an end to racial preferences at the Texas university. What does it say about the future of these policies at other schools?
Amity Shlaes discusses the New Deal, Calvin Coolidge, and her story as a self-made scholar.
An open letter to the president, provost, and board of trustees of Villanova University to rescind a recent rule that enforces ideological conformity and threatens academic freedom.
Peter W. Wood is joined by Gene Dattel and author and scholar on race in America. We discuss the history of reconstruction, reparations, civil rights, and Black separatist movements.
March was a busy month, from college admission scandals to free speech executive orders we had our hands full. Listen in and hear what the NAS staff has to say about March's biggest higher education news stories.
How did the College Board become so thoroughly politicized? What else can be done to ensure that high school students receive an unbiased, rigorous education?
Senator Rob Portman asks the right questions on Beijing-funded Confucius Institutes.
In the episode, Peter W. Wood is joined by Professor Bob Carle. They discuss his recent article in Academic Questions on Christopher Columbus and the redeeming heroes made into villains.
South Dakota leads the way in protecting liberties necessary for the pursuit of truth.
What's wrong with American colleges? Admissions departments are a small microcosm of large scale corruption.
What happened to all the Latin grammar books?
Three new reports from the federal government and from the UK reiterate NAS’s concerns: Confucius Institutes need to go.
Peter W. Wood is joined by the NAS staff to discuss the news of February and what they're looking at in the month ahead.
How will the classics die? We revisit a controversy in the field with new evidence.
A bill in the Oregon legislature has drawn ire for comparing genocide to the daily plight of microaggressions and appropriation.
Listen in as Peter W. Wood and Rob Koons discuss some of the larger questions of life.
NAS Director of Policy, Rachelle Peterson was interviewed by Fox New earlier this month on Beijing's continued effort to plant a stake at American colleges.
Sustainability is an ideology in which protecting the environment also concerns protecting society from dangers of any kind. But at what cost?
Steve Balch, NAS's founder, joins Peter W. Wood for an hour of discussion on the story of NAS, the study of Western Civilization, and his hopes for the future of American higher education.
The Senate’s outgoing education chairman is focusing on reforms that are worthwhile but paltry compared to the problems of politicization and trivialization in higher education.
The NAS has awarded Janice Gunther Martin the 2019 Fraser Barron Memorial Scholarship in Renaissance & Western History.
A conference erupted in outrage after a member openly criticized racial preferences.
Model state-level legislation to promote intellectual diversity on campus.
Let's restore intellectual rigor and diversity to higher education.
A State Representative in Iowa has introduced a bill to make Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago a required read for high school graduation.
Peter W. Wood interviews Larry Kogan on sustainability. Join us as Larry takes us on an expedition to the dark underbelly of the regulatory regime.
Peter W. Wood sits down with the NAS staff to discuss higher education news and themes from January.
A response to the American Psychological Association's recent guidance for men and boys.
Peter W. Wood writes a letter to the President of Portland State University urging the institution to end its use of academic disciplinary procedures to harass Professor Boghossian.
Peter W. Wood sits down with Darel Paul, a professor of political science at Wiliams College and author of From Tolerance to Equality.
The world wearies of defenses of liberal education and the humanities.
A brief history and critique of the Department of Education's proposed Title IX regulations.
Peter interviews Bruce Gilley about "The Case for Colonialism," the troubles of Professor Boghossian, and the Academy's intolerance.
A new program to bolster civic literacy.
Listen in as Peter and Jay discuss how America has become a shame culture, shame in our personal lives, and public outrage.
Science continues to evade its complicity in the irreproducibility crisis.
Listen in as Peter and William Meyers discuss photography, studying subjects outside your own, and the small business experience.
In this week's edition of Curriculum Vitae, Peter Wood sits down to discuss her career in Yiddish theatre.
The South Dakota Board of Regents have adopted a statement to promote these freedoms on campus.
Jude Russo, Rachelle Peterson, and David Randall sit down with Peter Wood to talk about the books they have been reading and those they recommend for the year ahead.
National policy should be based on reproducible science.
On this episode of Curriculum Vitae, Peter Wood and Barry Latzer discuss race, crime, and Barry’s battles with the progressive guardians of the publishing world.
Steve Balch reflects on the life of Herb London.
Politicians continue to oppose common-sense reform of Title IX.
A citizen's guide to submitting a comment to the Department of Education.
Is the rising socialism in America home-grown socialism or a replica of the three types of socialism from the last century?
Congressional reform of higher education is a long shot. Can the President push reform from the bully pulpit?
Steve Balch explains that higher education reform under President Trump has a rocky road ahead.
Naomi Klein’s addition to Rutgers’ faculty roster appears to be a further step in aligning the public, taxpayer-supported institution with hard-left partisanship.
Peter W. Wood sits down with Mark Bauerlein to discuss his recent article in Academic Questions and argument by epithet.
A review of Howard S. Schwartz's Political Correctness and the Destruction of the Social Order: Chronicling the Rise of the Pristine Self.
Congress should reform student aid and protect intellectual freedom.
Is it racist to protect American colleges from foreign meddling?
A major new university dedicated to academic excellence and freedom is what America needs.
Congress is divided, with Democrats holding a majority in the House and Republicans in the Senate. What does this mean for higher education? The first installment of our forum on the transfer of power.
What do popular statistics miss about the gender gap?
In this episode of Curriculum Vitae, Peter W. Wood and Johnathan Leaf discuss how art transformed from a pursuit of excellence into a political spectical.
Peter Wood writes to Education Secretary DeVos with comments on the proposed Title IX regulations.
Music in the academy is at risk.
Peter W. Wood sits down with KC Johnson to unpack what happened to Title IX and what should be done to fix it.
A comment on a recent study noting the unchallenging nature of common reading program books.
NAS Board Member Professor Gail Heriot introduces a panel on Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.
NAS urges the Department of Transportation to create transparent guidelines on data and research methodology.
Peter W. Wood sits down with NAS Director of Research David Randall to discuss the College Board.
Herbert London passed away on November 10; the National Association of Scholars mourns his passing.
In our inaugural podcast, NAS President Peter W. Wood sits down with Dennis Saffran to discuss Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.
What weight difference should be placed on "lived experience?"
A citizen's guide to the science education, funding, and reform.
Racial preferences are unpopular. Who would have thought?
On Wednesday, NAS President Peter Wood spoke to NPR’s On Point’s Meghna Chakrabarti about the case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.
William Young finds much to praise in the hit musical.
Universities shouldn't pay students to engage in political activism.
Common reading programs should be for exposing college students to excellent literature, not propaganda.
Hannah Arendt envisioned the collapse of Western civilization. Are we living through it? How near to truth was her prediction?
An incident with a student provides the occasion for Anthony Esolen’s exposition of how identity politics has made humanities education nearly impossible and the “very notion of a common good nearly inconceivable.”
A careful dissection of the most widely used surveys on campus sexual assaults indicates that the problem might be something less than the scourge it is often portrayed as.
Lessons from Charles Murray’s Visit to Notre Dame.
An analysis of the House Democrats' alternative to the PROSPER Act.
Following questions from Senator Marco Rubio, the University of North Florida becomes the ninth US university to close a Confucius Institute.
An amendment by Senator Ted Cruz targets Department of Defense funding for colleges.
NAS President Peter Wood writes to the College Board to propose reforms to the revised AP: World History exam.
Last week NAS President Peter Wood wrote to University of Houston President Renu Khator asking for a review of a high profile case of plagiarism.
A new study, Too Many Asian Americans, provides evidence for racial discrimination in college admissions.
The AAUP and AAC&U issue statement in support of a hollowed liberal arts.
Doubts about the possibilities of higher education are becoming non-partisan.
NAS is pleased to see the introduction of this new bill which provides further transparency of foreign governments' activities on American campuses.
A statement on proposed reforms to the Higher Education Act
Edward Reid discusses how the irreproducibility crisis affects climate science.
GMU's Confucius Institute has many strings attached and deserves to be added to the list of gifts being investigated by the GMU president.
A thorough analysis of the recent Confucius Institute event held in Washington, D.C.
John Staddon comments on The Irreproducibility Crisis.
NAS writes to the City University of New York's Chancellor, James Milken, following the no platforming of Josh Blackman.
This study examines the different aspects of the reproducibility crisis of modern science, and includes a series of policy recommendations.
Download an updated PDF that lists all of the Confucius Institutes in the United States, along with information on who to contact if you have concerns.
Howard Schwartz explores the psychological roots of accusations of racism.
Introducing the first NAS Confucius Institutes toolkit that provides resources and ideas to address these Chinese government-funded centers.
Join NAS on Thursday, April 12, 2018 when we honor Professor Amy Wax for her academic courage.
These days, saying uncomfortable truths aloud can get you banned from teaching First Year law students.
Free speech advocates must figure out why women support restrictions on free speech at a higher rate than men.
Rachelle Peterson writes at The Hill about six practical steps the US government can take in response to Confucius Institutes.
The NAS has awarded Eleanor Schneider the 2018 Fraser Barron Memorial Scholarship in Renaissance & Western History.
NAS policy director Rachelle Peterson explains at American Greatness why we should be wary of China's efforts to makeover the image of Confucius Institutes.
This morning, in a Senate hearing on worldwide threats to the United States, FBI Director Christopher Wray acknowledged that the FBI has been monitoring and investigating Confucius Institutes.
The National Association of Scholars is pleased to offer Charting Academic Freedom: 103 Years of Debate. What follows is our chart of fourteen major statements on academic freedom, broken down into 25 categories. The sudden increase in statements on academic freedom clearly is a reflex of new worries and concerns. We believe that our chart will be of value to those who are wrestling with these issues.
One year later and NAS's report on the Chinese government-funded Confucius Institutes is still making waves.
William Young examines the return of idols which Francis Bacon had sought to banish
The College Board makes a superficial response to NAS' critique of their AP European history standards.
William Young examines the dominance of relativism in contemporary moral thinking.
Ian Lindquist writes on the flaws of civics education, and on how it can be improved.
William Young discusses the decline of the traditional American work ethic and its replacement by identity-group entitlement.
NAS member Charles Geshekter writes about the dogma of diversity in higher education.
Professor Bruce Gilley discusses the lack of intellectual diversity in the American Political Science Association.
The recent attempts to include more women and racial minorities in STEM fields could have drawbacks.
William Young explores the roots of cultural determinism in higher education and the arts.
The entirety of a five-part essay, Mizzou Madness: A Case Study of Non-Diversity, Non-Freedom, and Non-Academics in Higher Education, by political scientist J. Martin Rochester.
Peter Wood argues that the lack of ideological diversity on campuses is due to more than just the left's domination of the professoriate, but to the campus culture itself.
Other Claremont schools are still investigating the student protests at Claremont McKenna college that obstructed speaker Heather Mac Donald.
Rachelle Peterson applauds the school's decision to discipline several students who obstructed free speech and calls for increased vigilance from all college administrators to protect free speech.
William Young examines the impact of postmodern subjectivism on American higher education and public affairs.
Rachelle Peterson warns of the dangers inherent in allowing a foreign government to exert influence on classrooms and university administrators.
Professor Zu-yan Chen and Rachelle Peterson discuss NAS's report on Confucius Institutes.
Brown University graduates held a black-only "Blackalaureate" the day before commencement.
After students at Claremont protested the speech of Heather Mac Donald two weeks ago, what do free speech and academic freedom mean at Claremont Mckenna?
NAS President Peter Wood argues for intellectual freedom's necessity at Springfield College.
William Young examines the development of the "youth culture" which first emerged among 1950's high school students.
Congress should reform the Pell Grant program and prevent fraud.
The National Association of Scholars has refined its proposed revisions to the Higher Education Act. What recommendations would you give to Congress?
William Young examines the focus on subjective individualism which dominates modern psychology.
NAS President Peter Wood writes about the possibility of removing federal funding from universities that do not protect intellectual freedom.
An in-depth report on how civics is taught around the United States.
A new movement in American higher education aims to transform the teaching of civics. This report is a study of what that movement is, where it came from, and why Americans should be concerned.
Professor Dougherty discusses the dangers of modeling complex systems in response to Professors Gilley and Goldstein.
In the aftermath of the 2016 election season, the National Association of Scholars extends its well-wishes to the incoming president.
Old Communist language and tactics are infiltrating American higher education, aided by our historical amnesia.
John Maguire tells how he started teaching students to write using the Readable Writing Method. Part 1.
Common Core offers students dumbed down and biased news articles to fill an appetite of "informational texts."
Are students gaining anything by replacing the universalism of the West with the particularism of diversity?
It’s getting harder to tell the difference between real news about colleges and the Onion’s parodies.
Professor James Tracy critiques the AP European History Course and Exam Description.
Peter Wood argues that higher education entails a hierarchical relationship between students who seeks knowledge and others who teach knowledge, as opposed to a consumer relationship.
The latent causes of faction are sown in the nature of man.
NAS presents a new case of bias against a faculty member over his course "Men in Literature."
NAS presents a new case of bias against a faculty member over his course "Men in Literature."
NAS presents a new case of bias against a faculty member over his course "Men in Literature."
Is President Obama's Promise program the solution to increasing access to community college?
NAS President Peter Wood discusses the tension between safe spaces and free speech, clarifying the importance of intellectual freedom.
Do Common Core State Standards make sense to you? How do they affect you and your children? NAS President Peter Wood gets to the core of the matter.
An examination of the application of seldom-scrutinized affirmative action policies in one university.
Climatologist David Legates explains why the influence of atmospheric gasses does not necessarily reflect their proportion in the atmosphere.
NAS Director of Communications David Randall discusses the proper role of comic books in a liberal education.
NAS President Peter Wood discusses his correspondance with Williams College's President Falk in light of the disinvitation of John Derbyshire.
A new definition of political correctness has emerged recently.
Colleges that let in unqualified applicants hire lots of staff for student retention. This raises college costs, drives away poor, qualified students, and doesn't even keep unqualified admits from flunking out of college.
Walter Williams offers some suggestions for how to become a good teacher.
A statement on the place and importance of intellectual freedom.
Daniel Asia gives advice to future arts and humanities scholars.
In his newest book, Michael Roth makes a case for the benefits of a liberal education.
NAS member Robert Koons gives advice to those pursuing philosophy.
Jason Fertig gives advice to people considering a career in academia.
The academy needs ideological diversity, and conservative students should be undaunted in participating at the higest level.
Scholar and author David Randall joins NAS's core team.
NAS President Peter Wood criticizes Chicago's misframed statement supporting freedom of expression.
The Associated Press asks news writers to quit calling scientists "climate change deniers."
The Lessons of History offers a "stimulus to seriousness" in the study of history.
William Young examines the ascendancy of social justice among academic social scientists.
NAS president Peter Wood calls on Dr. David Wright, president of Indiana Wesleyan University, to investigate allegations of a plagiarized doctoral dissertation issued by the university.
Superfluous political examples in philosophy texts show political bias that harms the discipline, scholars, and students.
Virginia Thomas takes viewers inside the NAS report, Sustainability: Higher Education's New Fundamentalism.
A new article on college summer reading programs agrees with NAS's findings: fiction, classics, and books older than the students are extremely rare.
The fossil fuel divestment campaign declares war on free speech.
Professor Russell Eisenman argues that tenure is a necessary safeguard for professors.
Prominent sustainability activist Bill McKibben offers some answers to questions posed by NAS.
From Bill Nye to Barack Obama, commencement speakers across the country encouraged the class of 2015 to "change the world" by changing the planet.
You can now use Amazon Smile to give 0.5% of your purchases to NAS.
Virginia Tech is now asking candidates for promotion and tenure to prove their "active involvement in diversity and inclusion."
Dr. Sandra Stotsky calls attention to the lack of parent voices in "No Child Left Behind" re-authorization.
The fossil fuel divestment fad indulges fantasy rather than grappling with economic realities.
In his new book, Peter Cappelli argues that college is not always a good investment.
The Supreme Court has an opportunity to revisit an affirmative action case - and hopefully end race-based admissions policies.
The case of Rachel Dolezal highlights the relevance of the satirical novel Black No More.
Sustainability encompasses not only a particularly aggressive form of environmentalism, but also a strong attack on market capitalism and a progressive vision of social justice.
Sandra Stotsky, NAS board member and leading critic of the Common Core State Standards, is asking members of the NAS to review a standardized test aligned with the Common Core.
The new issue of Academic Questions takes on questions about common readings, "translingualism," and more.
Peter Wood reflects on the contrasting perspectives at the AAUP and Heartland Institute conferences in Washington, DC last week.
Peter Wood warns that the Pope's expected encyclical could perpetuate climate conformity that would hurt the poorest nations.
David Legates and Will Happer, two lifetime NAS members, were honored at the Heartland Institute's international conference on climate change.
Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger weighs in on the new APUSH course.
The new APUSH reforms has its roots in a longstanding attempt to claim American history for leftist political purposes.
The upcoming Supreme Court decision could end racial discrimination on College admissions.
Philosophy professor Jack Kerwick writes that the purpose of education is not traditionalism, careerism, or activism, but what he calls "conversationalism."
Higher education should train students to think for themselves, not resort to a pre-set path set by those who seek to manipulate behavior.
A group of historians write that the new AP U.S. History framework neglects the civic purpose of history education.
Today's college admission process tells students that race matters more than hard work.
Prince Ea's "Dear Future Generations" video is moving, but it neglects some important facts.
Divestment activism has failed. Universities are learning that sanctions rarely accomplish anything.
Elites claim their education reforms benefit the poor. But the closing of Corinthian Colleges and higher education's adjustment to Common Core do more harm than good.
America used to think civics education was crucial to their citizenship. Now it is either avoided or a chore.
It doesn't take much to be accused of being a climate change "denier." You don't even have to deny climate change.
Peter Wood reviews Kevin Carey's The End of College and concludes that it is the best argument that the future of college is online.
Censorship always harms rigorous debate. Let unpopular ideas stand or fall on their own merits.
Affirmative action has led to the underrepresentation of Asians and native-born whites.
Ashley Thorne wrote for World Magazine on environmentalism's anti-reproductive attitude.
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.
Roger Clegg argues that the Supreme Court should again review the Fisher v. University of Texas case.
William Young examines the influence of postmodernism on the social sciences.
Bowdoin's boycott of Israel failed, but anti-Israel protesters count it as a win.
Students at Bowdoin College show concern for academic freedom by voting against an anti-Israel BDS movement.
We need an accurate understanding of the Reconstruction in order to properly understand discrimination.
Students should be encouraged to debate conflicts between different cultures concerning values, beliefs, and customs.
John Rosenberg argues against the potential effectiveness of Brown University's diversity initiative.
Students stage sit-ins for divestment, claiming to be "oppressed" by college trustees.
People are putting words in the mouth of the Constitution.
A new study shows that in half of Harvard's colleges, all faculty political donations are to Democrats, and none are to Republicans.
Universities are increasingly dominated by the view that we live in environmentally desperate times
Environmental messaging targeting children sets the stage for the ubiquity of "sustainability" ideology in colleges and universities.
A compendium of relevant documents and critiques of the new AP US History standards
NAS President Peter Wood talks with the Armstrong & Getty Show about his recent Weekly Standard cover story.
Sustainability provides colleges an all-encompassing worldview.
Scientists and theologians weigh in on a summit at the Vatican.
An update on what other people are saying about Sustainability: Higher Education's New Fundamentalism.
Forget checks and balances, or popular sovereignty: citizenship education has morphed into environmental propaganda.
City Journal reviews NAS board member Sandra Stotsky's book on "improving American educational standards."
NAS president Peter Wood's article titled "The Meaning of Sex" appears on the cover of the May 4, 2015 issue of The Weekly Standard.
In 2010, we devoted an issue of Academic Questions to the topic of sustainability.
The earth is in better shape than it has been for many years. Let's celebrate the human innovation that made this possible.
At the William F. Buckley Society's "Disinvitation Dinner," George Will discussed the soft totalitarianism that the campus sustainability movement fosters.
The sustainability movement has muscled its way into the college curriculum, administration, and culture.
Nationally syndicated columnist George F. Will devotes his most recent column to the new NAS report.
NAS president Peter Wood and Kathleen Porter-Magee discussed the pros and cons of the Common Core at a debate at Saint Francis College.
Sandra Stotsky argues that the new version of No Child Left Behind will leave low-income students behind because it lacks an important requirement for teachers' competence in their subjects.
George Leef reviews Cheated, an expose of the recent UNC scandal written by two faculty members.
While the idea of "privilege" has been rising in popularity on college campuses, open debates and robust discussion about the topic have not.
NAS board of advisors member Robert P. George applauds two universities for embracing academic freedom.
Emerging “whiteness” courses are often connected to political purposes.
William Young examines the misunderstanding and misuse of scientific concepts by academic social scientists.
In "Notable & Quotable," the Wall Street Journal quoted the NAS's "Sustainability: Higher Education’s New Fundamentalism" report.
Stanley Fish responds to the NAS's sustainability report.
Lynne Cheney, leader of the 1990s opposition to politicized US history, comes out strongly against the new AP US History.
MOOCs are complementing institutions with flexible professional courses, fulfilling predictions made a year and a half ago.
Since the launch of NAS's sustainability report, here's what writers, bloggers, and think tanks had to say about it.
NAS President Peter Wood and WSJ's Mary Kissel take viewers inside the new NAS report on the campus sustainability movement.
The first critical account of the sustainability movement in higher education.
The authors of the report Sustainability: Higher Education's New Fundamentalism answer frequently asked questions about sustainability and the NAS's positions.
The authors of an NAS report critiquing the campus sustainability movement make 10 recommendations for colleges and universities.
Elite journalists gathered at Columbia University say they have no need to listen to or even acknowledge skeptics of anthropogenic global warming.
What do most students know about US history? Very little. What to do about it? Good question.
An economics professor explains why he regards faculty unionization as bad law.
The 1945 bedtime story Goodnight Moon remains a classic invocation of peacefulness and home.
A battle over a philanthropic endowment at Trinity College ends as a victory for donor intent.
Conspiracy theorists make an ad hominem attack film about climate-change doubters.
NAS president Peter Wood urges U.S. Members of Congress to rein in the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights.
Jay Bergman, an NAS board member and professor at CCSU in Connecticut, writes about the need for intellectual diversity on college campuses.
George Leef writes for the John William Pope Center on why recent job data does not prove that higher education is a "good investment."
An argument for why the part of education that is civic virtue, as seen throughout history, is essential to the survival of a republic.
Mike Adams writes for Academic Questions on his legal victory against UNCW and how this case has served to advance academic freedom.
In Academic Questions, Robert Carle writes on why sexual assault cases should be decided by courts, not by campus rape tribunals, which have an abysmal record of mishandling cases and issuing weak sentences.
The UK-based publication spiked has ranked higher education institutions according to their support for freedom of speech.
Campus-based programs are helping to restore rising generations’ attention to important but increasingly neglected ideas.
American colleges and universities are searching for ways to overcome student addiction to technology and its effect on classroom instruction. Will they work?
Activists worldwide are converging to demand divestment from fossil fuels.
Wiliam Young examines the declining fortunes of working class men in light of academic social science skewed against them.
Rachelle Peterson writes for National Review Online on why climate activists' latest cause has them sounding like stock market analysts.
Governor Scott Walker's call for changes at the University of Wisconsin, which initially included major revisions to the school's mission statement, reveal a fundamental shift in the purpose of education.
The City University of New York has banned staff from referring to students as “Mr.,” “Mrs.,” or “Ms.,” calling this act of politeness sex discrimination
The recent college sports scandals at UNC and elsewhere reveal deeper problems in the current culture of higher education.
George Mason University law professor Todd Zywicki writes for the John William Pope Center about his attempt at eradicating his school's speech code.
Drs. Jim Milgram and Sandra Stotsky critique the implementation of the Common Core State Standards in a KTVN 2 News interview.
NAS president Peter Wood evaluates Duke University's short-lived and ill-considered decision to broadcast the Muslim adhan every Friday on campus.
Kevin T. Brady finds the APUSH standards a far greater problem than Common Core.
Academic Questions contributor David Kaiser writes for TIME Magazine on why the movie Selma is historically inaccurate.
Rachelle Peterson warns against several dangers of MOOCs, which include the possibility of data mining and privacy infringement.
NAS president and anthropologist Peter Wood observes the American Anthropological Association masking the truth to promote an ideological agenda.
A remembrance of political philosophy scholar Harry Jaffa.
George Leef reviews Versions of Academic Freedom and argues that there does not have to be a single, one-size-fits-all approach to academic freedom.
John C. Chalberg finds the APUSH standards for the Post-Civil War era deceptively simple.
Across the country, parents and citizens who are opposed to the Common Core State Standards have used Facebook to organize by state.
Robert L. Paquette describes his encounter with AP history at the high school level.
Six social psychologists are publishing an article arguing that their discipline suffers as a science due to its narrowness in the range of opinions it deems acceptable.
A holiday window display at fashionable NYC store Bergdorf Goodman suggests that classic literature represents an aspect of the good life.
The Jesuit university in Milwaukee rebuked a professor for blogging about what another instructor said to a student about discussing homosexuality in class.
A highly ranked elite liberal arts college chastises students for dressing up as American Indians at Thanksgiving, while at the same time encouraging rampant immorality as part of campus culture.
Sandra Stotsky responds to the claim that the Common Core is impossible to replace.
Peter Wood examines how academics have promoted and contributed to lawlessness and violence.
Today academic freedom is an embattled principle as campus guardians of political correctness wield the power to hush discussion of subjects they don't like.
The special section of the winter 2014 Academic Questions highlights campus attitudes toward guns and religion.
The University of Wisconsin, Madison recruits many academically weak students to make the campus more diverse, but the open admission standards erode the university's academic integrity.
Jonathan Bean isn't terribly upset about the new APUSH course.
St. Francis College recently hosted a debate on the Common Core between NAS President Peter Wood and Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Sol Stern. Video coverage of the full event is available for viewing.
The promises of data-mining in higher education are that we will end up with more students achieving degrees at lower cost, but the soft totalitarianism that will be required to achieve these gains is a high cost.
William Young examines the negative effects of social science on the traditional family.
University of Virginia historian Joseph Kett finds the APUSH course unteachable.
In "God's and Guns," a special section of the Winter 2014 Academic Questions, Patrick J. Deneen finds that both sides in the latest stage of the Culture Wars "represent a betrayal of the proper mission of higher education."
Just in time for the holiday season, Felicia Chernesky, the managing editor of Academic Questions, has released the children's book Sugar White Snow and Evergreens: A Winter Wonderland of Color.
Brooklyn College historian KC Johnson finds the new AP history standards heavy on skills, light on content.
There is a dramatic divide on campus between students caught up in campus "hook-up culture" and feminist crusaders against "rape culture."
Faculty members and teachers use the grand jury's decision in the Ferguson case as an opportunity to advance the view that America is plagued by racism.
Jason Fertig writes on his first three months in the position of Faculty Senate Chair, where he has straddled the awkward fence between administration and faculty.
George Leef argues that the "gainful employment" rule will reduce students' options for employment without helping them avoid debt.
Climate activists have become experts at selling their secular salvation myth to millions of young people.
