March 24, 2008

Vietnam: Historians at War

Mark Moyar

Has reasoned study of the Vietnam War been trampled by radical adherence to the politically correct? 

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March 20, 2008

Nobody Watching

Peter Wood

We've reached the tipping point in human resources where administrators now outnumber teaching faculty. Things have been sliding quietly in that direction, aided by the addition of new positions s......

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March 19, 2008

Freedom Bound: The AAUP Presidential Election

Peter Wood

After interviewing AAUP presidential candidates Cary Nelson and Tom Guild, Ashley Thorne and Peter Wood conclude that one creed can be used with two opposite meanings. That said, NAS hopes to see the......

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March 6, 2008

8. Ideology @ UCLA Dorms

Peter Wood

Sustainability, as it is used on campus these days, signifies more than merely limiting man's effect on the environment

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February 29, 2008

7. Inside the ACPA Conference

Peter Wood

A Report on the Wanna-Be Revolutionaries of College Residential Life Programs

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February 27, 2008

The Copyist: The Plagiarist and the Noose

Ashley Thorne

Columbia Teachers College professor, charged with plagiarism, cries racism.

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February 20, 2008

6. Who Educates the Whole Person These Days? Anyone? (Res Life and the Decline of Campus Community, Part 2)

Tom Wood

Our recent posting, "Residence Life and the Decline of Campus Community, Part 1," aimed to place Res Life programs within the wider context of the contemporary American college and university, and i......

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October 29, 2024

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The Looming Irrelevance of Middle East Study Centers

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....

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Lee Zeldin Should Reform EPA Science Policy

NAS welcomes the nomination of Congressmen Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency....

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NAS Welcomes Administrator McMahon's Nomination to Serve as Education Secretary

With McMahon, the new administration has a chance to drastically slim down and depoliticize the Education Department....

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May 15, 2015

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Where Did We Get the Idea That Only White People Can Be Racist?

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....

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Ask a Scholar: What is the True Definition of Latino?

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?...

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10 Reasons Not to Go to College

A sampling of arguments for the idea that college may not be for everyone....