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400th Article
May 22, 2009 By Ashley Thorne
This week NAS published our new website’s 400th article. We launched our made-over website in March 2008, carried over a few articles from the old site, and jumped deliberately into the journalistic spirit of the times. Since then, we have built up momentum, providing timely commentary on what’s happening in the higher education world. When just now we paused to take stock of our labor, we were cheered to see how far our steady practice has taken us.
We’re still working out some issues with our search engine, and we hope soon to have a comprehensive index system that will enable readers to easily find articles by college, by topic, by author, etc. Right now our essays are categorized by month, and we fear that many of our best may be hidden away in the dark archives of “Articles by Date.”
Let’s see how well you’ve kept up with us. Did you see the piece by Wendy Shalit on the campus hookup culture? Did you know NAS investigated U Mass Amherst’s undergraduate program in socialism? Or that we invited readers to “Ask a Scholar” their most pressing questions that Wikipedia can’t answer? Or that NAS took its own diversity education course?
We broke the news when a university offered course credit for Obama campaign volunteers, and when Virginia Tech set up a way to filter out faculty members who did not embrace “diversity” service. We “fisked” the most recent major AAUP statement, providing what AAUP President Cary Nelson said was “the only really intellectually detailed and thorough critique” out of over 600 responses received by the organization.
Friends of ours wrote in, imagining how they would run the higher ed zoo. “Margaret Matthews,” an Argus volunteer, recounted being told by her university that she couldn’t transfer out of her “diversity” job because it would be difficult “finding another black woman to replace you.” And having noticed a “Wall of Secrets” in a campus building, NAS explored the college-encouraged concept of therapy secret-telling. After that, we told some of our secrets.
So go ahead, learn our secrets. Find the articles you missed before. And stick around for our next 400.
Here are some of our “highlight” articles. You can find them by topic, by special series, by college/university, or by date.
By Topic
Academic Freedom
Bias Reporting
Curriculum
Diversity
Finance
LGBT
Plagiarism
Politics
Racial Preferences
Residence Life
Are the Dorms Being Politicized? (Video)
Sexual Harassment
Sustainability
Student Culture
Therapeutic U
Miscellaneous
By Special Series
How Many Delawares? (22)
Ask a Scholar (5)
If I Ran the Zoo (17)
Argus Project (15)
By College/University
Brandeis University
Cal Poly
Caltech
Columbia University
CSU-Chico
Duke University
Los Angeles City College
Louisiana State University
Loyola University
Macalester College
Metropolitan State College
Miskatonic University
Ohio State University
Queens College
Rhode Island College
Southern New Hampshire University, Salem
Texas A&M International University
The New School
University of Arizona
University of Delaware
University of Illinois
U Mass Amherst
University of Vermont
University of Wisconsin, Fox Valley
Virginia Tech
Yeshiva College
Williams College
By Date
Fall Semester 2007
09/11/07 By the NAS editors
09/21/07 By the NAS editors
12/11/07 By Tom Wood
Spring Semester 2008
02/21/08 By Ashley Thorne
02/29/08 By Peter Wood
04/07/08 By Terry Pell
Summer 2008
07/16/08 A Statement of the NAS
08/07/08 By Ashley Thorne
08/11/08 By Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne
08/26/08 By Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne
Fall Semester 2008
09/04/09 By Ashley Thorne
09/22/08 and 09/23/08 By Peter Wood
10/07/08 By Peter Wood
10/10/08 By Ashley Thorne
10/31/08 By Ashley Thorne
10/31/08 By Peter Wood
11/06/09 By Ashley Thorne
Spring Semester 2009
01/07/09 By Ashley Thorne
01/22/09 By Peter Wood
01/26/09 By Peter Wood
01/30/09 NAS 2009 Conference: Peter Wood vs. Cary Nelson
02/03/09 By Peter Wood and Glenn Ricketts
02/03/09 By Peter Wood
02/06/09 By Ashley Thorne
02/17/09 By Wendy Shalit
02/17/09 By Ashley Thorne
02/18/09 By Peter Wood
02/19/09 By Ashley Thorne
02/23/09 By Peter Wood
03/17/09 By Peter Wood
03/26/09 By Peter Wood
04/07/09 By Margaret Matthews
04/09/09 By Ashley Thorne
04/20/09 By Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne
04/23/09 By Ashley Thorne
04/27/09 By Douglas Campbell
04/28/09 By Peter Wood
05/05/09 By Peter Wood
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