July 27, 2008
Liberal arts accreditor AALE recently survived a narrow scrape with organizational demise. NAS president Steve Balch draws some conclusions from AALE's trip to the brink and back.
July 26, 2008
Introducing the other NAS: a disgruntled membership association of fist-shakers working to thwart new ideas and to sustain the tradition of grim solemnity and cranky curmudgeonhood in America
July 18, 2008
What exactly is the ideology underlying res life programs today? Sustainability? Communitariansim? Social Justice? Oh my.
July 17, 2008
College Students get little encouragement to esteem the traditional family from the redefined-family curriculum and "hooking-up" dorm culture.
July 16, 2008
The zoo runs on, with Ammon Allred's Seussian verse on what matters in higher education.
July 15, 2008
A movement is afoot to restore our universities’ lost sense of purpose. Unfortunately, its leadership is hostile to liberal education. The movement goes by several names: “educating the wh......
July 15, 2008
By blogger "anotherpanacea," a professor of philosophy in the Washington, D.C. area
July 7, 2008
NAS welcomes In Character, a journal about everyday virtues. In seeking to restore higher education to its "higher" quality, we must pursue the moral uplift of the university. This thoughtful journa......
January 8, 2025
The National Association of Scholars condemns the “Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza,” which the members of the American Historical Association passed by 428 t......
February 24, 2025
The American Bar Association must now move beyond suspending the enforcement of its misbegotten rules to the elimination of the rules themselves....
February 13, 2025
With this administration, the grown ups are back: Trump is replacing confusion and chaos with clarity and common sense—not just for women’s sports but also for America....
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?...
May 26, 2010
A sampling of arguments for the idea that college may not be for everyone....
