A Crisis of Competence: The Corrupting Effect of Political Activism in the University…
Mar 30, 2012 John M. Ellis |
A report on the consequences of politicization in higher education, focused on the University of California.
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Beach Books: What Do Colleges and Universities Want Students to Read Outside Class?…
Sep 12, 2011 Ashley Thorne |
A report on the books colleges are assigning as "common reading."
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The Vanishing West: 1964-2010
May 18, 2011 by Ashley Thorne, Glenn Ricketts, Peter Wood, Steve Balch |
A report on the disappearance of Western Civilization from the American undergraduate curriculum.
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Beach Books: What Do Colleges and Universities Want Students to Read Outside Class?…
Jun 04, 2010 Ashley Thorne |
NAS has released a new report, "Beach Books: What Do Colleges Want Students to Read Outside Class?" on common reading programs at colleges and universities.
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The Scandal of Social Work Education
Sep 11, 2007 NAS |
A study of politicization in social work education programs that examines the detailed accreditation standards to which these programs conformed, the professional standards they expected of their students, the way they defined… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
Words to Live By: How Diversity Trumps Freedom on Academic Web Sites
Jun 29, 2006 |
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.
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The Politicization of the Pennsylvania Public University System
Nov 09, 2005 |
Report on Testimony before a Select Committee of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
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Affirmative Action at Three Universities
Nov 13, 2004 |
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.
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The Changing Shape of the River: Affirmative Action and Recent Social Science Research
Oct 04, 2004 |
By Russell Nieli, Princeton University, Politics Department
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Today’s College Students and Yesteryear’s High School Grads: A Comparison…
Dec 18, 2002 |
America has led the world in democratizing access to higher education. Between 1947 and 1995 the number of high school graduates entering college (including community college) rose from 2,338,2261 to 14,261, 8002—a rate of… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
Ethics, Enron, and American Higher Education: An NAS/Zogby Poll of College Seniors
Jul 02, 2002 |
A large majority of this year's college graduates report that their professors tell them there are no clear and uniform standards of right and wrong. A similarly large majority report that they've been taught that corporate… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
What Do College Graduates Know?
Apr 17, 2002 |
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
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Race and Higher Education
May 01, 2001 |
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… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
Losing the Big Picture: The Fragmentation of the English Major since 1964
Jul 15, 2000 |
"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… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
The Dissolution of General Education: 1914-1993
Sep 30, 1996 |
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… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
