October 26, 2009
A reader from Australia commented on Tom Wood's article "The Marriage of Affirmative Action and Transformative Education": This year, I was in a compulsory BA class that used transformative ed......
October 26, 2009
The University Alaska professor who was denied grant funding for engaging in sustainability advocacy responds to the NAS.
October 23, 2009
Check out my article at NAS.org, "Sustainability Skepticism Has Arrived." I juxtapose two news stories from this week on challenges to the sustainability doctrine: These stories are parallel. Both......
October 23, 2009
Two controversies this week wrought an unexpected clash between sustainability ideologues and universities that decided to stand on fundamental principles of higher education.
October 22, 2009
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) today celebrates ten years ofdefending Constitutional rights on college campuses. Alan Charles Kors and Harvey Silverglate founded FIRE in 19......
October 22, 2009
In this article, Ashley Thorne discusses the continuing vitality of the "social justice" crusade on many American campuses. I'd be willing to bet my last dollar that in these "social justice" pr......
October 22, 2009
Andrew Smarick holds the White House accountable for its use of education stimulus funds.
October 21, 2009
Today is the seventh annual Campus Sustainability Day (CSD), a celebration invented by the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP), in collaboration with Second Nature. Second Nature, rem......
October 21, 2009
Should a college lose accreditation just over a shaky financial situation? Should we use accreditation as the touchstone for eligibility for federal student aid funds? In this week's Pope Center......
October 21, 2009
In the twentieth century, psychologists who studied human resource management realized that employment tests were the best way to select job applicants. Tests need to be veri......
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....
