February 26, 2010

NAS Board Member Candace de Russy Receives Educator of the Year Award

Ashley Thorne

NAS is pleased to announce that Dr. de Russy has been honored with the Educator of the Year Award by the Queens Village Republican Club.

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February 25, 2010

Shimer College Adopts Liberty-Centered Mission Rejected by Faculty

Ashley Thorne

Tom Lindsay, president of the Great Books college, has made himself highly unpopular by insisting on a return to the ideals of Western civilization. Faculty members unanimously opposed a new mission......

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February 25, 2010

Video: Saving Freedom on College Campuses

Steve Balch

Watch NAS chairman Steve Balch's remarks at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference on preserving liberty in higher education.

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February 24, 2010

The Latest Academic Fad?

George Leef

"Sustainability" is certainly one of them, but in this week's Clarion Call, I focus on the way "globalization" is being used as an excuse for creating new courses such as "global diversity."

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February 23, 2010

Another Reason for the Grad School Glut

Andrew Spiropoulos

If you haven't had a chance to read this column by William Pannapacker (writing as Thomas H. Benton), you owe yourself the pleasure. (Unless you are considering graduate school in the......

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February 23, 2010

Academe Gets Curioser and Curioser

Candace de Russy

A former University of Buffalo scientific researcher, William Fals-Stewart, has been accused of using actors -- yes, hired, scripted actors -- as part of a painstaking plan to win acquittal in a mis......

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February 23, 2010

Brothers in Arms

David Clemens

As an undergrad, I spent one year at Berkeley, 1968, a year full of death, riots, tear gas, and bayonets under Peder Sather’s gate.  I dressed in Levis, love beads from a head shop on Teleg......

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February 23, 2010

Going Green is Part of Social Integrity? No Comment

Ashley Thorne

"An Honor Code must link social integrity with ecological sustainability," says a student. Is that really so?

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February 19, 2010

Those Were the Days

Glenn Ricketts

Springtime, 1968: the Great Divide in American higher education.

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February 18, 2010

Should We Blame Poor Teaching for Bad Student Performance?

George Leef

That's the subject of a debate scheduled for March 16 at New York University. Rod Paige, Terry Moe, and Larry Sand are the team arguing that we should. Teachers union president Randi Weingarten......

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