April 13, 2010

Former NAS Board Member Quoted in WSJ on Katyn Forest Massacre

Ashley Thorne

Adam Scrupski, a former board member of the NAS, is quoted in today's Wall Street Journal in the article "The Fog Over Katyn Forest" by Bret Stephens. Stephens quotes a blog post by Scrupsk......

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April 13, 2010

Ask a Scholar: Critical Discourse Analysis

Dario Fernandez-Morera

What does it mean to study literature and culture through Critical Discourse Analysis? Do you have any references of Latin-American authors that develop their work using this approach?

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April 12, 2010

Sustainability Report

Ashley Thorne

NAS had a quite a sustainability week; most notably, we got word that Stanford was voting on a proposal to make sustainability education a requirement for graduation. We wrote to the Committee on Unde......

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April 9, 2010

The Radical Roots of Campus Protests

Ashley Thorne

Fighting tuition increases is the innocent face of radical activism on campus. While the mainstream media reports that students are meekly rallying over the cost of college, Jay Schalin shows the da......

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April 9, 2010

Oh the Things You Can Learn at a Teacher Conference!

George Leef

In today's Pope Center piece, Mary Grabar writes about her experience at a teacher conference in Georgia. Such conferences are not about mundane pedagogical matters like how best to teach arithm......

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April 9, 2010

Letter to Stanford Committee: Vote Against Sustainability in Gen Ed Requirement

Peter Wood

Today NAS president Peter Wood sent a letter to the Stanford University Committee on Undergraduate Standards and Policy, which is voting on a proposal to make sustainability education part of a requ......

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April 9, 2010

Jabberwocky Watch: Hybrid Tipping Points for Turbulent Times

Peter Wood

Jargon and disconnect at a conference of DePaul University faculty and staff members on “Negotiating Change: Critical Transitions, Tipping Points, and Cataclysmic Futures.”

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April 8, 2010

Duke's Sexual Misconduct Rules Make Students 'Unwitting Rapists'

Candace de Russy

Duke University, according to FIRE, has adopted a new "sexual misconduct" policy that can find a student guilty of non-consensual sex merely because he or she is considered......

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April 8, 2010

Affirmative Action Grasping at Straws

George Leef

In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, Martin Morse Wooster contributes a critical review of the recent book purporting to defend "affirmative action" in college admissions, No Longer Separate......

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