March 4, 2015
NAS president Peter Wood urges U.S. Members of Congress to rein in the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights.
February 27, 2015
Jay Bergman, an NAS board member and professor at CCSU in Connecticut, writes about the need for intellectual diversity on college campuses.
February 25, 2015
George Leef writes for the John William Pope Center on why recent job data does not prove that higher education is a "good investment."
February 25, 2015
An argument for why the part of education that is civic virtue, as seen throughout history, is essential to the survival of a republic.
February 23, 2015
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......
February 20, 2015
The UK-based publication spiked has ranked higher education institutions according to their support for freedom of speech.
February 19, 2015
Campus-based programs are helping to restore rising generations’ attention to important but increasingly neglected ideas.
February 18, 2015
American colleges and universities are searching for ways to overcome student addiction to technology and its effect on classroom instruction. Will they work?
February 17, 2015
Peter Wood and Kathleen Porter-Magee will debate the Common Core State Standards at St. Francis College on February 26.
May 7, 2024
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......
March 9, 2024
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....
April 20, 2024
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....
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....
October 12, 2010
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?...
September 21, 2010
A reader asks, "If Elohim refers to multiple 'gods,' then Yhwh Elohim really means Lord of Gods...the one of many, right?" A Hebrew expert answers....
