NAS Articles This Week

Check out the NAS articles from this week so far! Remapping Geography, Jonathan M. Smith and Jim Norwine, Nov. 2 On the state of academic geography today, from a forthcoming issue of Academic Questions. LEAPs and Bounds, Ashley Thorne, Nov. 3 An initiative spawned of the outcomes assessment movement, Liberal Education & America's Promise (LEAP), sounds boring enough. But what is really going on when the lords of of education go a-LEAP-ing? NAS investigates. George Lakoff's New Happiness: Politics After Rationality, John B. Parrott, Nov. 4 On the ideas and contemporary influence of Berkeley professor George Lakoff, from a forthcoming issue of Academic Questions. Response to Smith and Norwine on Remapping Geography, Don Mitchell, Nov. 5 Dr. Don Mitchell, author of Cultural Geography: A Critical Introduction who was mentioned in Professors Smith and Norwine's Academic Questions article "Remapping Geography," offers a response to their article. Academic Freedom Forum, Peter Wood, Nov. 5 A response, added to those of others, to University of Chicago president Robert Zimmer's recent speech on academic freedom.