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Introducing ASMEA
June 30, 2009 By Ashley Thorne
A new organization, the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, upholds reasoned inquiry and the pursuit of the truth.
1 comment - Last on 07/02/2009

Educational Jargon Generator...No Comment
June 30, 2009 By Ashley Thorne
Amaze your education colleagues with randomly assembled education phrases such as "Let's mesh mission-critical higher-order thinking!"
2 comments - Last on 07/02/2009

PC Gadflies Chide Their Own
June 30, 2009 By Ashley Thorne
Blogging professors urge fellow academics to update their commitment to identity politics and sustainability.

What Does Ricci Mean for Higher Ed?
June 29, 2009 By Peter Wood
What principles about racial discrimination can we take from the case of the firefighters in New Haven?
1 comment - Last on 07/02/2009

Old Ills, New Remedies: A Conversation with Diane Auer Jones
June 29, 2009 By Carol Iannone - Academic Questions
This interview will appear in a forthcoming issue of Academic Questions (vol. 22, no. 3)

Name Dropping
June 26, 2009 By Peter Wood
Michael Jackson blurs, Governor Sanford trips, Farrah Fawcett strolls, and fermions chill out. NAS rides the news cycle.
1 comment - Last on 06/27/2009

2009 If I Ran the Zoo #5
June 26, 2009 By Robert L. Jackson
Robert Jackson says the higher ed zoo needs a Great Conversation.

Thursday Vert-Degree
June 25, 2009 By Ashley Thorne
Green news: go asparaguses, intelligent life isn't sustainable in outer space either, and messages from AASHE.

What’s Critical about Critical Globalization Studies?
June 24, 2009 By Peter Wood
This year a UC Santa Barbara professor sent an email to his class, comparing Israeli actions to those of the Nazis. But where did this professor's academic field, "critical globalization studies" actually come from, and should it exist in the university in the first place?

"Specious and Seducing": Alexander Hamilton on Group Preferences
June 23, 2009 By Glenn Ricketts
Arizona puts a civil rights measure on the ballot for 2010. Alexander Hamilton comments.
2 comments - Last on 06/24/2009

Gothic Arch and Ghost Town
June 21, 2009 By Peter Wood
Princeton's gracious campus expresses confidence in the life of the mind; UMass Amherst's Chancellor cries uncle; a New Jersey ghost town points its bony finger.
2 comments - Last on 06/22/2009

Endangered Colleges
June 19, 2009 By Ashley Thorne
The U.S. Department of Education recently released a list of 114 private non-profit colleges that failed the Department’s test of financial responsibility. These colleges could be headed for shutdown...
1 comment - Last on 06/20/2009

Marching Forward
June 18, 2009 By Ashley Thorne
An update on the military and higher education.

ACTA Launches Campaign to Recognize Free Exchange of Ideas
June 18, 2009 By Ashley Thorne
A new report from our sister organization commends colleges that foster intellectual diversity.

Congratulations to NEH Enduring Questions Grant Winner
June 17, 2009 By Ashley Thorne
Bruce Gans, pioneer of the Great Books movement at community colleges, receives national recognition for his pilot course on the question "What is freedom?"

Clash of Symbols
June 16, 2009 By Ashley Thorne
Elsa Murano, the first Latina president of Texas A&M University, has resigned. Some lament the loss of the institution's "symbol" of diversity.
3 comments - Last on 06/18/2009

The Paradox of Constitutional and Post-1965 Civil Rights
June 15, 2009 By George Seaver
The Jeffersonian ideal clashes with the new concept of civil rights based on the diversity doctrine, "All groups are inherently different."
1 comment - Last on 06/15/2009

Who Am I?
June 14, 2009 By Peter Wood
NAS president Peter Wood tries to distinguish himself from his namesakes.

Is America Losing Its Innovative Edge?
June 13, 2009 By Peter Wood
Is American innovation declining because we fail to send enough kids to college? A new report casts doubt on higher education's expansionist rationale.
2 comments - Last on 07/06/2009

New Scholarship in Anthropology...No Comment
June 12, 2009 By Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne
Allah Made Us, Birth Models, Dancing from the Heart, Red Lights, With Shaking Hands
1 comment - Last on 06/13/2009

Adopt a Mascot
June 11, 2009 By Ashley Thorne and Peter Wood
There are many orphaned college mascots who need a good home. Will you give them the love they need?
2 comments - Last on 06/12/2009

The Public Interest and University Governance (Part 2): Recent Controversies at the College of DuPage
June 11, 2009 By Tom Wood
Tom Wood argues for faculty governance in colleges and universities.

For Shame!
June 08, 2009 By Peter Wood
On the transformation of the idea of "shame" - and how the right kind of shame is seen as honorable. Especially on the college campus.
1 comment - Last on 06/09/2009

Tapping the Bottle
June 05, 2009 By Ashley Thorne
Achieving the Dream works for equity, not equality.
1 comment - Last on 06/09/2009

Exchange Counter
June 04, 2009 By Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne
Meet Free Exchange on Campus, a coalition uninterested in free exchange on campus.
1 comment - Last on 06/09/2009

40 Awkward Questions for College Tours
June 03, 2009 By Peter Wood, Glenn Ricketts, and Ashley Thorne
You choose: either play the role of an über-progressive or ask the questions colleges never want to hear.

Tuesday Tuba
June 02, 2009 By Ashley Thorne
Mac Mods in the Chronicle, the TESOL seesaw, and the climate action promise.

Richmond Times-Dispatch Editorial to NAS: "Well Put."
June 01, 2009 By Ashley Thorne
A nod to NAS as a dissenting voice.

Does Environmentalism "Fit Squarely" with Higher Ed's Mission?
June 01, 2009 By Ashley Thorne
What do you think? We invite comments.
4 comments - Last on 06/07/2009