August 25, 2008
Members of the American Political Science Association, which is scheduled to have its annual meeting in Toronto next year, have drafted a petition that consideration be given to relocating the meeti......
August 22, 2008
NAS executive director Peter Wood considers the rationale behind Princeton's "25 Most Influential Alumni" list. Not to miss among the "Portraits of Influence" is the man who gave us the Rubber Duc......
August 21, 2008
What can a mission statement tell us about a college's susceptibility to communitarian ideals? Thomas Wood compares the mission statements of Harvard, Berkeley, and U of Delaware.
August 20, 2008
Multicultural welcome receptions at California State University at Chico raise the question, "Do differences really define who we are?"
August 18, 2008
Thomas Wood explains how the three circles of sustainability overlap to produce a new pedagogy in residence halls.
August 15, 2008
Perhaps the Olympic spirit reflects good, instinctual, but stifled life principles - rejected especially by higher education. Enjoy it while you can.
August 14, 2008
Charles Murray asserts that the degree should be replaced by the CPA-like certification. NAS executive director Peter Wood comments on Murray's suggestion and indicates possible flaws in the sch......
August 14, 2008
Lovely handcrafted hobo sticks and bundles now available for purchase from NAS.
August 11, 2008
This article, an interview with Tom Wolfe, appeared in Academic Questions (vol. 21, no. 2).
August 11, 2008
Prompted by one of our Argus volunteers, NAS looks into a degree program in social justice education at U Mass Amherst. There we find one of those fantasy studies we thought existed only in such realm......
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....
