August 6, 2019

Research Associate: Student Debt and Administrative Growth

National Association of Scholars

The National Association of Scholars is seeking a Research Associate to research administrative growth and its effect on rising tuition

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August 5, 2019

Senator Josh Hawley Takes Aim at Confucius Institutes

Rachelle Peterson

A Missouri congressman asks colleges in his state to reconsider their arrangements with the Chinese government. 

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August 5, 2019

Idaho Universities at a Crossroad: Social Justice or the Pursuit of Truth?

Peter Wood

Idaho congressmen express alarm at the distortions caused by identity politics in public universities. 

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August 5, 2019

Peer Review: The Gold Standard?

Peter Wood

The peer review process, long considered the gold standard for academic publishing, is contributing to the irreproducibility crisis in modern science. Good research is being lumped in with the bad in......

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July 31, 2019

Job Opening: Development Associate

National Association of Scholars

A new opportunity to work with the NAS development team. 

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July 18, 2019

Research Associate: Title IX and Campus Due Process

National Association of Scholars

The National Association of Scholars (NAS) seeks a full-time Research Associate to lead a project researching and writing about campus due process in cases of campus sexual misconduct.

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July 18, 2019

Episode #37: Pushing Back on Polarization with David Blankenhorn

Peter Wood

David is the founder and president of the Institute for American Values, and the president and co-founder of Better Angels, a nonprofit that brings together Americans of all political leanings to unde......

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July 17, 2019

Member Meeting and Board Nominations

The National Association of Scholars will hold its annual membership meeting on Saturday, October 19, 2019. 

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May 7, 2024

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Creating Students, Not Activists

The mobs desecrating the American flag, smashing windows, chanting genocidal slogans—this always was the end game of the advocates of the right to protest, action civics, student activ......

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A Portrait of Claireve Grandjouan

Claireve Grandjouan, when I knew her, was Head of the Classics Department at Hunter College, and that year gave a three-hour Friday evening class in Egyptian archaeology....

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The Academic's Roadmap

By all means, pursue your noble dream of improving the condition of humanity through your research and teaching. Could I do it all again, I would, but I would do things very differently....

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Subpoenas for All!

Ohio Northern University gnaws its teeth with an appetite for vindictive lawfare....

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Where Did We Get the Idea That Only White People Can Be Racist?

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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Ask a Scholar: What is the True Definition of Latino?

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?...