April 15, 2011
Student press writers this week ponder the legality of military operations in Libya, the need for an undergraduate science requirement, why spending cuts are the key to economic recovery and the Oba......
April 15, 2011
Will reduced federal funding for Title VI foreign language study hurt national competence or help cut academic waste?
April 13, 2011
Harvard's Pathways to Prosperity project challenges the conventional wisdom that the U.S. simply must process more young people through college, saying that for many young people, there are bett......
April 13, 2011
Over at the leading libertarian magazine, Reason, writer Shikha Dalmia attacks conservatives for using FOIA laws to invade the privacy of historian William Cronon. At the same time, Dalmia defends O......
April 13, 2011
NAS joins a coalition of fifteen organizations to defend freedom of speech at Valdosta State University.
April 13, 2011
Peter Wood examines a new study of hiring biases that faculty members admit to holding.
April 13, 2011
Berkeley physics professor Richard Muller, who is leading a new independent study of global warming, shares his views on science, carbon footprints, and global warming policy.
April 12, 2011
Is American humanitarianism related to a felt need to project an image of the US as compassionate, in contrast to its history of racial discrimination?
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?...
June 5, 2024
Ohio Northern University gnaws its teeth with an appetite for vindictive lawfare....
