NAS Member Publications
May 27, 2010 By Ashley Thorne
A sampling of some NAS members' work this year.
1 comment - Last on 05/28/2010

Collegiate Press Roundup 5-26-10
May 26, 2010 By Glenn Ricketts
This week students write about higher pay for women, ideological uniformity on campus, ways to control undergraduate alcoholic excess, the spiritual dimension of life and federal health care programs.

10 Reasons Not to Go to College
May 26, 2010 By Ashley Thorne
A sampling of arguments for the idea that college may not be for everyone.

Collegiate Press Roundup 5-19-10
May 19, 2010 By Glenn Ricketts
Undergraduate journalists this week take a look at national politics, the limits of free speech, environmental ethics, guns on campus and the larger significance of four years in college.
1 comment - Last on 05/26/2010

Race-Based Graduation Celebrations...No Comment
May 18, 2010 By Ashley Thorne
Universities such as Chico State are planning Asian, Latino, and Black graduation ceremonies.
3 comments - Last on 05/19/2010

Sustainability News 5-17-10
May 17, 2010 By Ashley Thorne
This week’s news includes a debate at small college over whether to sign the ACUPCC, a free sustainability issue of NAS’s journal Academic Questions, student eco-reps who work to change their peers’ behavior, and a sustainability graduation pledge.

Arkansas Toothpick: The Cutting Edge of Academic Reform
May 17, 2010 By Glenn Ricketts and Peter Wood
To increase graduation rates, Arkansas cuts course requirements.
1 comment - Last on 05/21/2010

On Civility and Politics in the Classroom
May 14, 2010 By Ashley Thorne
One professor reflects on what it means to teach students to have civil in-class conversations on controversial subjects. What's been your experience with classroom civility?
1 comment - Last on 05/14/2010

Arizona Ends Divisive Chicano Studies in Schools
May 13, 2010 By Ashley Thorne
Arizona has passed a bill to end La Raza studies, which taught elementary school students to see America as a clash between whites and Chicanos.
1 comment - Last on 05/14/2010

Collegiate Press Roundup 5-13-10
May 13, 2010 By Glenn Ricketts
Student journalists write about the ongoing controversy over Arizona’s new immigration law, the dark side of sophisticated communications technologies, the National Day of Prayer, Washington, D.C.’s proposed soda tax, and how to dress on your summer vacation.

We Told You So: UC Fulfills NAS Prophecy
May 12, 2010 By Ashley Thorne
NAS predictions are coming true as the University of California opts for online undergraduate education.

To Serve Mann: Virginia’s AG Puts Climate-Researcher on the Menu
May 12, 2010 By Peter Wood
Is the climate fraud investigation a breach or an exercise of academic freedom?
10 comments - Last on 05/18/2010

Symposium: Student Life
May 11, 2010 By Brian Bolduc, Mary Frances Boyle, Mary K. Daly, Amanda Fiscina, Gregory Hirshman, Nash Keune, Adam Pascarella, and Julie Robison
This symposium by eight student writers provides an inside view of campus life today and appeared in the "Student Culture" issue of Academic Questions (vol. 23, no. 2).

Learning Outcomes Unleashed
May 10, 2010 By Peter Wood
Colleges and universities are scrambling to find ways to measure things they had previously taken for granted and some things that are probably intrinsically unmeasurable.

Achievement Gap Politics
May 07, 2010 By Anonymous
A graduate's account illuminates why ed schools try to keep students with non-progressive views out.
3 comments - Last on 05/09/2010

Free 'Sustainability' Academic Questions Issue
May 07, 2010 By NAS
Hot off the press: the current issue of Academic Questions, a special issue on "Sustainability,” is available free online.

Collegiate Press Roundup 05-06-10
May 06, 2010 By Glenn Ricketts
Student journalists take the measure of European Islamophobia, holistic education, Spanish LGBT culture, bullying studies and racism in the Tea Party movement.

For Members Only: Feminism on Campus Today
May 06, 2010 By Karin Agness
This essay on campus feminism appeared in the "Student Culture" issue of Academic Questions (vol. 23, no. 2).
1 comment - Last on 05/08/2010

Sustainability News 05-05-10
May 05, 2010 By Ashley Thorne
In sustainability news this week are 'green' graduation garb, Unity College's newly enlisted energy monitor, the 'new era' of sustainability, and a political science professor's debunking of the organic food myth.
1 comment - Last on 05/08/2010

Global Citizenship and the Cosmopolitan
May 04, 2010 By Peter Wood
One college student defines "global citizenship" as "universal universalism." Huh?
1 comment - Last on 05/09/2010

Bob Lerner, In Memoriam
May 03, 2010 By Steve Balch
NAS remembers Bob Lerner, one of our first members and a brilliant statistician.