April 15, 2010
Inside Higher Ed today has a revealing story about grading and academic standards. Louisiana State has removed a professor who insisted on a rigorous approach to her introductory biology class at th......
April 15, 2010
George Leef highlighted his Pope Center article analyzing the Bologna Process, an effort to standardize European higher education requirements and make it easier for students to transfer to universi......
April 15, 2010
The shape of satire is circular; what a satire mocks can never be shown as improving because satire’s aim is to expose, ridicule, and thereby correct, similar folly in reality. Nothing cha......
April 15, 2010
Clarifying President Obama's 2020 higher ed goal - sending more students to college won’t make the United States the best-educated nation.
April 14, 2010
In this week's Clarion Call, I write about the recent book The Challenge of Bologna, which argues that the European higher education reform process poses a serious challenge that the US needs to......
April 14, 2010
Forget that taxpayers are being crushed by reckless government spending. Forget, for example in New York State, that they are being ground under by a $9.2 billion budget deficit for the newly......
April 13, 2010
Adam Scrupski, a former board member of the NAS, is quoted in today's Wall Street Journal in the article "The Fog Over Katyn Forest" by Bret Stephens. Stephens quotes a blog post by Scrupsk......
April 13, 2010
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?
April 12, 2010
NAS had a quite a sustainability week; most notably, we got word that Stanford was voting on a proposal to make sustainability education a requirement for graduation. We wrote to the Committee on Unde......
April 9, 2010
Fighting tuition increases is the innocent face of radical activism on campus. While the mainstream media reports that students are meekly rallying over the cost of college, Jay Schalin shows the da......
March 31, 2025
Columbia's descent into chaos is by its own hand. Actions to right the university must be swift and tough....
March 24, 2025
Are American colleges and universities finally getting their comeuppance?...
April 15, 2025
The academic bureaucracies and professoriate are so deeply committed to their radical program of replacing American society with their own vision of a new order that we have no real choice b......
May 15, 2015
A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....
April 15, 2025
The academic bureaucracies and professoriate are so deeply committed to their radical program of replacing American society with their own vision of a new order that we have no real choice b......
October 12, 2010
What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...
