Announcements
Articles
05/08/08: How to Defeat the Res Lifer’s Nouveau Indoctrination Program
It's not the university's job to save the planet.
05/07/08: Igloo Building: A Primer on the Financial Aid Fiasco
A glimpse at the student loan crisis and its implications for the academic world.
05/06/08: A Head Full of Headphones: The Rise of iTunes U
Smart AND fun: iTunes U combines higher learning with entertainment.
05/02/08: Human Nature: NAS Attends an Environmental Justice Conference
Ashley Thorne shares reflections on the "Race, Place, and Environmental Justice" conference held on campus at Princeton.
04/22/08: After the Manifestoes: Building a New Reform Movement in Higher Education
NAS Executive Director Peter Wood addressed the annual meeting of NAS affiliate, the Minnesota Association of Scholars on April 19. He offered an overview of the various reform initiatives in higher education and proposed a way to gather many of them into a more broadly-based movement. This is his text.
Initiatives
Argus Project
04/16/08: Always Watching: The Argus Project
A call for volunteers Read More...
Foreign Gift Transparency
04/01/08: Working Out a Deal
Could Harvard be accommodating Muslim women's request for women-only gym time as an obligation to Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed? Read More...
How Many Delawares?
05/06/08: UD Faculty, Students Stand Up Against Res Life Proposal
The University of Delaware Faculty Senate held debate over the proposed new residence life program, a repackaged version of what was formerly known as "the treatment." Read More...
04/28/08: 10. Just Say No to Racial Preferences
Tom Wood asks the relevant question about racial preferences and contextualizes diversity research at the time of the Gratz and Grutter cases. Read More...
The Scandal of Social Work Education
05/07/08: REPORTS FROM THE ACADEMY:
Social Work Agonistes (Preview from Academic Questions)
CSWE and social work education's romance with identity politics. Read More...
Press Releases
05/02/08: University of Delaware Could Reinstate Residence Life Indoctrination Program
The University of Delaware has proposed a new program for residence life that looks just like the former program, known on campus as "the treatment." NAS exposed the abuses of UD's residence life curriculum last fall, and we now urge the Faculty Senate to vote against this proposal at their meeting on Monday, May 5.
04/07/08: Evidence Defeats Opponents of Michigan Racial Preferences Ban
NAS publishes article unfolding how evidence of racial preferences' detriments stopped opponents of Michigan Civil Rights Initiative.
Briefly Noted
05/08/08: Harder Core: UGA Nixes Regional Proposals; Opts for Rigorous Curriculum
Rather than adopt proposals for a curriculum based on globalism and sustainability, the University of Georgia has made changes in favor of more academic rigor.
04/22/08: Update on Georgia Curriculum
A conversation with a UGA academic advisor