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Radio Segment on 'Indoctrinate Our Kids and Green My Parents'
A discussion on the consequences of urging children to monitor their parents' energy and water use in the home.
Profit vs. Proselytizing: Business Lore and Academic Practice
Academia can learn a lot from the business world.
CAS Letter to California Assembly: Do Not Pass Racial Preferences Bill
The California Association of Scholars urges the State Assembly not to pass a bill that will overturn Proposition 209 and allow the use of racial preferences in university admissions.
Collegiate Press Roundup 4-29-10
Student journalists take on the wimps at Comedy Central, immigration reform, the broadening of horizons gained by overseas travel, feminist pornographers and the malaise that’s cut the country loose from its bedrock principles.
Have You Published a Book or Article Recently?
We'd love to bring your work to the attention of your NAS friends and colleagues. Let us know if you've published any recent books, articles, or poems.
Judge Downes Decides Rightly
We commend Judge Downes' decision to uphold freedom of speech by ordering the University of Wyoming to allow William Ayers to speak on campus.
Indoctrinate Our Kids and Green My Parents
Today kids are taught to be eco-warriors...and re-educate their parents.
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- Last on 04/28/2010
How to Attract Undocumented Students...No Comment
A June conference aims to help diversity directors and minority recruiters woo illegal immigrants.
Is Higher Education Facing Economic Peril?
NAS board member Herbert London suggests ways colleges and universities can save money in this time of budget cuts.
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- Last on 04/27/2010
Steve Balch Responds to Ad Hominem Newspaper Attack
NAS Chairman Steve Balch answers a sneer against NAS and its efforts to revive the study of Western civilization.
“Why Professors Are Liberal”: Explanation or Apologia?
New research seeks to show why so few conservatives choose an academic profession. NAS Chairman Steve Balch weighs the evidence.
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- Last on 04/28/2010
Attack of the Giant Plethora
CSU Chico is asking for feedback on the draft of its diversity action plan for 2010-2015. We are happy to oblige.
Earth Day Thoughts on the Campus Sustainability Movement
Is everything really connected to everything else?
Collegiate Press Roundup 4-22-10
Issues in student news stories this week range from diversity, drug use, and the Tea Party, to grade inflation, apologies for inciting hate, and teaching tolerance.
Earth Day and Sustainability News
This week's stories include Green My Parents, Earth Day's observance by college students, sustainability college rankings, and how to help your pets do their part for the environment.
Shimer Unmanned
Shimer College lost its nerve in what was ultimately a battle over academic standards.
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- Last on 04/21/2010
Why Texas Should Revive Western Civ Study
NAS Chairman Steve Balch urged the Texas House Higher Education Committee to take the lead in reviving the study of Western civilization.
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- Last on 04/21/2010
Fighting City Hall: Is It Worth It?
A new accreditation criterion will require online schools such as Yorktown University to become licensed in every state represented by its students.
Anger, Sedition, and Freedom of Speech
Should we restrict expressions of anger to protect the public order? Should universities cultivate students' character?
Video: Peter Wood Talks About Anger on MSNBC
Setting the record straight: Wood and panelists contradict a shocked MSNBC anchor on anti-government anger and violence.
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- Last on 04/20/2010
Upcoming Events in California and Connecticut
Dinesh D'Souza and Karen Torre to speak at upcoming NAS affiliate-sponsored events.
Breaking News: Shimer College Votes President Out
After a long battle between the president and the faculty, alumni, and students, Shimer College's board has voted to remove President Tom Lindsay.
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- Last on 04/20/2010
NAS President Peter Wood on MSNBC Today
Peter Wood will speak about domestic anger in America on the cable news channel MSNBC.
Dictatorships and Double Standards
How the campus left insulates itself and bullies dissenters.
Collegiate Press Roundup 4-16-10
Students write about "text-speak," Larry Summers, whether bad weather makes students superhuman, "gender justice," and the unwelcome selection of Martha Nussbaum as graduation speaker.
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- Last on 04/19/2010
Best-Educated vs. Most-Educated
Clarifying President Obama's 2020 higher ed goal - sending more students to college won’t make the United States the best-educated nation.
American Character, the Remix: How College is Shaping Us Now
A nation’s manner of educating shapes the character of its people, so how does American education mold our culture today?
Ask a Scholar: Critical Discourse Analysis
What does it mean to study literature and culture through Critical Discourse Analysis? Do you have any references of Latin-American authors that develop their work using this approach?
“The Only Work I Can Get Here Involves Diversity Programs”
"There I was, just one person sitting there, but she was seeing a group." An administrator longs to escape the racial labeling that characterizes her department.
2009 Beneficiaries of Work by the National Association of Scholars
Report: NAS by the numbers in 2009
Letter to Stanford Committee: Vote Against Sustainability in Gen Ed Requirement
Today NAS president Peter Wood sent a letter to the Stanford University Committee on Undergraduate Standards and Policy, which is voting on a proposal to make sustainability education part of a requirement for graduation.
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- Last on 04/12/2010
Jabberwocky Watch: Hybrid Tipping Points for Turbulent Times
Jargon and disconnect at a conference of DePaul University faculty and staff members on “Negotiating Change: Critical Transitions, Tipping Points, and Cataclysmic Futures.”
Encyclopedia of Sustainability, 3rd Edition
A 3rd edition of the NAS 'sustainapedia' of the key names, terms, books, colleges, and organizations in the campus sustainability movement.
To Sustain Stony Brook, Sustainability Campus Will Close
Stony Brook University has announced that it will close its sustainability campus in Southampton due to budget cuts. Is it a ruse to recover funding or is the sustainability stronghold crumbling?
Collegiate Press Roundup 4-8-10
Stories in student newspapers this week include smoking bans, gendered transit cards, sustainability, the legalization of marijuana and tea parties.
De-Growth Conference...No Comment
Participants at a meeting in Vancouver will look for ways to shrink the economy in the name of sustainability.
Back to the Future: The New Campus Radicals
Fighting tuition increases is the innocent face of radical activism on campus. Recent protests led by college students have been rallies to transform civil society according to redistributive principles.
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- Last on 04/08/2010
Ark of Hope for the Earth Charter...No Comment
The UN sustainability manifesto endorsed by many U.S. colleges and universities has its own 200-pound "ark" for transportation.
All Wired Up: Six Questions Technology in the Classroom Raises
Does using technology in the classroom advance or hinder the academic pursuit of truth?
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- Last on 04/07/2010
Ratatat, Sissy, Bay State Boom: Obama Whacks K-12 Standards
Critics say Race to the Top and the Common Core State Standards Initiative will make K-12 education worse.
Intellectual Takeout: Would You Like an Education with Your Degree?
NAS welcomes the emergence of Intellectual Takeout, a one-stop-shop of resources for all those interested in learning about freedom.
Is Our Children Learning?
A review of Diane Ravitch's new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.
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- Last on 04/05/2010
Update: Top Ten Books for College Students...Still No Comment
Top reading on campus today includes Nightlight, a parody of the bestseller Twilight by Harvard satirists, and Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea.
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