November 21, 2008
A look at how higher education has influenced the analysts and inscribers of American public opinion.
November 20, 2008
A professor who publicized names of plagiarizing students in his course was fired from Texas A&M International University. Many see the incident as a discouragement to faculty to report academic d......
November 19, 2008
Wondering what NAS has been up to recently? Click here for a one-stop index of some of our favorite articles this fall.
November 18, 2008
Is it the division of labor between tenured scholars and "teaching specialists"?
November 17, 2008
Will gender balancing come to dominate science? The following article was published in Academic Questions (volume 21, number 4).
November 17, 2008
It's not for nothing that Toni Morrison is the most assigned author in college today. Her revamping of written English gives a new model for fiction. As a service, NAS's executive director has......
November 14, 2008
Candace de Russy tells the story of a professor fired for voicing political views outside the classroom.
November 14, 2008
Chairman Cole will depart the National Endowment for the Humanities with a record of striking sucess in rekindling the appreciation for this country's founding and heritage.
November 13, 2008
Have you ever wondered whether science fiction is literature? Or whether Russia is part of 'the West'? Now is your chance to ask a scholar! Today, a rather unpretentious inquiry important to p......
January 24, 2024
The idea has caught on that the radical left overplayed its hand in DEI and is now vulnerable to those of us who seek major reforms. This is not, however, the first time that the a......
February 13, 2024
All signs show that American education is beginning a long and painful divorce with the People’s Republic of China. But will academia go through with it?...
October 31, 2023
A faculty hiring committee at the University of Washington “inappropriately considered candidates’ races when determining the order of offers,” provided “disparate op......
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....
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?...
July 8, 2011
Professor Jonathan Imber clarifies concepts of sociologocal theory....