2008

NAS "UpDate" Newsletter
NAS "UpDate" Newletter gives the latest information on NAS projects and tells of affiliate activities. Published periodically, it contains names and addresses of presidents of our local chapters, and presents many of the policy documents and position statements of the National Association of Scholars. Presented HERE are recent online issues of NAS "UpDate" as PDF files.

Getting Under the Skin of "Diversity": Appendix
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Getting Under the Skin of "Diversity": Conclusion
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Getting Under the Skin of "Diversity": Epilogue
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Getting Under the Skin of "Diversity": Chapter 10
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Getting Under the Skin of "Diversity": Chapter 9
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Getting Under the Skin of "Diversity": Chapter 8
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Getting Under the Skin of "Diversity": Chapter 7
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Getting Under the Skin of "Diversity": Chapter 6
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Getting Under the Skin of "Diversity": Chapter 5
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Getting Under the Skin of "Diversity": Chapter 4
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Getting Under the Skin of "Diversity": Chapter 3
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Getting Under the Skin of "Diversity": Chapter 2
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Getting Under the Skin of "Diversity": Chapter 1
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Getting Under the Skin of "Diversity": Preface
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Getting Under the Skin of "Diversity": Title Page
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2007

The Scandal of Social Work Education

2006

Words to Live By: How Diversity Trumps Freedom on Academic Web Sites
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A 2006 study of university websites released by the National Association of Scholars reveals, among other things, that references to diversity exceed those to traditional American ideals like freedom, democracy, and liberty.

2005

The Politicization of the Pennsylvania Public University System
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Report on Testimony before a Select Committee of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

2004

Affirmative Action at Three Universities
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This analysis by the Virginia Association of Scholars of fall 2003 data from UVa, NC State, and William and Mary Law School plots the extent of minority-group preference in admissions.

The Changing Shape of the River: Affirmative Action and Recent Social Science Research
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By Russell Nieli, Princeton University, Politics Department

2002

Today's College Students and Yesteryear's High School Grads: A Comparison of General Cultural Knowledge

Ethics, Enron, and American Higher Education: An NAS/Zogby Poll of College Seniors

What Do College Graduates Know?
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From the Arizona Association of Scholars, Prepared by Michael K. Block, Professor of Economics and Law, University of Arizona, and Robert J. Franciosi with Melissa Geiger

2001

Race and Higher Education
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Why Justice Powell's Diversity Rationale For Racial Preferences in Higher Education Must Be Rejected, by THOMAS E. WOOD, Executive Director, California Association of Scholars and MALCOLM J. SHERMAN, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, State University of New York at Albany

2000

Losing the Big Picture: The Fragmentation of the English Major since 1964
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"Losing the Big Picture" uses data from 1964-1965, 1989-1990, and 1997-1998 academic catalogs of twenty-five selective liberal arts colleges to show that undergraduate English majors no longer even try to provide their students with a serious overview of the Anglo-American literary tradition, or a systematic exposure to its greatest writers and works.

1996

The Dissolution of General Education: 1914-1993
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For the greater part of the twentieth century, America's leading colleges and universities were strongly committed to providing undergraduates with a broad and rigorous exposure to major areas of knowledge. During the last thirty years this commitment largely vanished, according to a detailed study of fifty prestigious institutions.

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