June 17, 2009
Bruce Gans, pioneer of the Great Books movement at community colleges, receives national recognition for his pilot course on the question "What is freedom?"
June 16, 2009
Elsa Murano, the first Latina president of Texas A&M University, has resigned. Some lament the loss of the institution's "symbol" of diversity.
June 15, 2009
The Jeffersonian ideal clashes with the new concept of civil rights based on the diversity doctrine, "All groups are inherently different."
June 14, 2009
NAS president Peter Wood tries to distinguish himself from his namesakes.
June 13, 2009
Is American innovation declining because we fail to send enough kids to college? A new report casts doubt on higher education's expansionist rationale.
June 12, 2009
Allah Made Us, Birth Models, Dancing from the Heart, Red Lights, With Shaking Hands
June 11, 2009
There are many orphaned college mascots who need a good home. Will you give them the love they need?
June 8, 2009
On the transformation of the idea of "shame" - and how the right kind of shame is seen as honorable. Especially on the college campus.
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....
