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NAS Wall of Secrets
October 31, 2008 By Peter Wood
Tell us your secrets!
1 comment - Last on 11/03/2008

Secrets, Secrets Are No Fun
October 31, 2008 By Ashley Thorne
The college-driven trend to divulge says something about higher education's vision of itself as therapeutic.
2 comments - Last on 11/03/2008

Dinner with Dick and Jane
October 30, 2008 By Peter Wood
Reading instruction has come a long way (or is it far gone?) since We Come and Go.
1 comment - Last on 03/23/2009

Ichabod Rides Again: A Halloween Fable
October 29, 2008 By Peter Wood
What happenned to the teacher from Sleepy Hollow who longed to see the "whole child."

The College Backgrounds of America's Talking Heads
October 28, 2008 By Tom Wood
Have the liberal arts influenced our nation's leading political analysts?
1 comment - Last on 11/21/2008

NAS to APA: Stop Digging
October 27, 2008 By Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne
The APA proposes changes to its accreditation requirements on diversity - and digs itself further into the hole of double standards. Open DOC file ( 33.28KB) . . .
3 comments - Last on 10/28/2008

Monotone Lullabies
October 24, 2008 By Ashley Thorne
What to make of a university that appears an island of relative sanity?
1 comment - Last on 10/26/2008

Unpacking
October 23, 2008 By Peter Wood
After disputations about the nature of the family, reading Raggedy Ann is a welcome escape into childhood.

Ask a Scholar
October 22, 2008 By Peter Wood and Glenn Ricketts
Have you ever wondered whether science fiction is literature? Or whether Russia is part of 'the West'? Now is your chance to ask a scholar!
1 comment - Last on 10/23/2008

Harassed by Harassment Codes?
October 22, 2008 By Glenn Ricketts
Sexual harassment codes - codes that often infringe on faculty rights and that poison collegiality on campus - are making a comeback.

Beyond the Politics: Making the Case for the Liberal Arts
October 22, 2008 By Tom Wood
Students must possess cultural literacy in order to realize true academic literacy.

New NAS Affiliate in Arkansas
October 17, 2008
The National Association of Scholars is proud to announce the inception of a new affiliate for the state of Arkansas.

Tunnel Vision
October 16, 2008 By Ashley Thorne
This week, while haunted houses thrilled some, dark tunnels of oppression channeled others through “the dirtiest, ugliest, bloodiest issues.”
1 comment - Last on 10/17/2008

Weighing the Evidence: New Studies on Racial Preferences at Three Universities
October 16, 2008 By Glenn Ricketts
NAS affiliates helped the Center for Equal Opportunity document discrimination in law school admissions.

Deactivated
October 15, 2008 By Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne
A professor at Carroll University is disappointed when she tries to teach students to be activists.
1 comment - Last on 10/20/2008

Hypergelasts
October 14, 2008 By Peter Wood
Are you ever hangry? Do you ever blamestorm? Then expiscate some new words with us.
1 comment - Last on 11/11/2008

Hiring Discrimination and Quotas at OSU?
October 10, 2008 By George W. Dent Jr.
A statement from the Ohio Association of Scholars about the "Comprehensive Equity" program at OSU, which seeks to increase the number of women appointed to faculty positions in the sciences.

LSU Campaign Retreats to its “Safe Space”
October 10, 2008 By Ashley Thorne
What's with the purple stickers on faculty members' office doors?
7 comments - Last on 10/14/2008

Making Allowances
October 09, 2008 By Ashley Thorne
Want to keep students on the track to academic success? Pay them!
1 comment - Last on 10/15/2008

Circling Arizona: Mission Creep at a State University
October 09, 2008 By Steven Anderson
An ASU-sponsored research center studies minority health disparities.
1 comment - Last on 10/09/2008

Williams Chokes Up
October 07, 2008 By Peter Wood
Should bias in higher education be reported?

UPDATE: CAUT's Empty Accusations
October 06, 2008 By Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne
The AAUP Canadian counterpart tried some unoriginal smears on Argus and NAS; we set the record straight.

Debates on Campus
October 02, 2008 By Ashley Thorne
Part of NAS's mission is to "sustain the tradition of civil debate in America’s colleges and universities." What about the presidential debates?

The Cave
October 02, 2008 By Peter Wood
It's October - time to pay attention to recent and upcoming trends in higher education, like the student loan crisis, the rise of distance learning, the therapeutic campus, and sustainability.

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Take Back the Classroom from PowerPoint
September 02, 2010 By Jason Fertig
Restrict PowerPoint use in teaching to pictures and videos, writes Jason Fertig. Too much PowerPoint usurps professors' authority and accustoms students to lazy thinking.

Collegiate Press Roundup 9-2-10
September 02, 2010 By Glenn Ricketts
Student journalists examine topics from presidential speeches to campus smoking bans.

Will You Promote Diversity? Virginia Tech Tests Faculty Candidates’ Commitment
September 01, 2010 By Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne
A major public university has fashioned a “diversity” litmus test for faculty hiring

FIRE Educates for Free Speech on Campus
August 31, 2010 By Glenn Ricketts
FIRE will offer a Free Speech Seminar in NYC on September 14.

University Speaker Series: Arab Feminism, Black Feminism, and "A Southern Queer Love Story"...No Comment
August 30, 2010 By Ashley Thorne
A program on gender and diversity at the University of Richmond will explore "emancipatory ideas of social justice" this fall.

How Scholarships Morphed into Financial Aid
August 30, 2010 By Jackson Toby
This excerpt from Jackson Toby's latest book, The Lowering of Higher Education in America: Why Financial Aid Should Be Based on Student Performance, will appear in the forthcoming fall issue of Academic Questions (vol. 23, no. 3).

Common Reading Controversy at Brooklyn College
August 27, 2010 By Ashley Thorne
Is Brooklyn College using freshman reading for ideological goals?

Question of the Week: How Many Colleges Should You Apply To?
August 27, 2010 By Ashley Thorne
To answer, leave a comment on this article, email us, or respond via Facebook or Twitter (no more than 140 characters).

Atlas Black Shrugs
August 26, 2010 By Jason Fertig
The first comic book textbook combines management jargon and theories and packages them into a story about a slacker student's attempt to become an entrepreneur.
1 comment - Last on 08/27/2010

Collegiate Press Roundup 8-26-10
August 26, 2010 By Glenn Ricketts
Student journalists have a look at the Ground Zero mosque controversy, reducing your carbon footprint and the pitfalls of "sexting."

A Regulatory Assault on For-Profit Higher Education
August 25, 2010 By Richard J. Bishirjian
How the attacks on for-profit higher ed are squashing needed competition.

New Excellent Programs: Tocqueville Program and Center for Statesmanship
August 24, 2010 By Ashley Thorne
Check out our list of excellent programs as we add new ones at Indiana and Richmond.

The Glut of Academic Publishing: A Call for a New Culture
August 23, 2010 By Stanley W. Trimble, Wayne W. Grody, Bill McKelvey, and Mohamed Gad-el-Hak
This article will appear in the forthcoming fall issue of Academic Questions (vol. 23, no. 3). A short version of this paper appeared under the title “We Must Stop the Avalanche of Low-Quality Research” in the June 13, 2010 Chronicle of Higher Education.
1 comment - Last on 08/25/2010

Building a 21st Century Syllabus
August 20, 2010 By David Clemens
Professors these days have to cover their backs when writing syllabi, writes David Clemens.
2 comments - Last on 08/20/2010

Question of the Week: Why Did You Choose Your College?
August 20, 2010 By Ashley Thorne
We're starting a new "Question of the Week" series. We'll have a new higher-education-related question every week. To answer, leave a comment on this article, email us, or respond via Facebook or Twitter (no more than 140 characters).
2 comments - Last on 08/20/2010

Dictatorships and Double Standards, Part II
August 19, 2010 By Robert L. Paquette
Professor Paquette responds to the controversy generated this summer after Hamilton College sought to censor his NAS article.

Real Ethics Education
August 19, 2010 By Jason Fertig
Ethics courses should make moral decisions personal, argues Jason Fertig.

Collegiate Press Roundup 8-18-10
August 18, 2010 By Glenn Ricketts
Student journalists tackle gay marriage, weird psycholgy studies and state liquor regulations.

5 Consequences of Administrative Bloat
August 18, 2010 By Ashley Thorne
What happens to higher education when universities are dominated by administrators?

Ravitch Repentant
August 17, 2010 By Peter Cohee
Peter Cohee reviews Diane Ravitch's book, a partial volte-face, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.