July 3, 2014
Robert Gregory and his wife are volunteer advisors for Bowdoin Christian Fellowship, but the college will no longer let them proclaim their beliefs.
July 3, 2014
Americans tend to see U.S. colleges and universities through rose-colored glasses while bemoaning the state of our schools. Kevin Carey writes that higher education isn't doing any better than ele......
July 3, 2014
University of Liverpool student Christopher Beckett observes how an obsession with safety has undermined academic freedom in UK universities.
July 2, 2014
A magazine based in Britain has launched a campaign challenging a national student union policy banning certain views from being aired in campus speeches.
July 2, 2014
NAS board member Peter Berkowitz reflects on Swarthmore President Rebecca Chopp's departure from Swarthmore.
July 1, 2014
In this preliminary report, NAS president Peter Wood analyzes in detail the new AP United States history course.
July 1, 2014
The Office of Postsecondary Education returns to the older practice of soliciting public comments.
July 1, 2014
Protesters are demanding "reparations" for the damage caused by the use of fossil fuels in the developing world.
June 30, 2014
Members of the NAS staff share their summer reading lists and offer book recommendations.
October 29, 2024
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....
November 20, 2024
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....
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?...
May 26, 2010
A sampling of arguments for the idea that college may not be for everyone....