May 1, 2020

Open Letter: Urge the President to Rescue American Higher Ed Through Reform

National Association of Scholars

We are urging the President to rescue American higher education. He must lead Congress to pass a bailout linked to regulatory reform that will make our colleges and universities the greatest......

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May 1, 2020

Toolkit: Critical Care

Rachelle Peterson

Use this toolkit to advocate for the principles that should guide any federal support for higher education during the coronavirus pandemic. 

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April 30, 2020

Failing Our Students in a Crisis

John O. McGinnis

Technological progress will not maximize learning if our educational institutions are mired in an ideology that prevents full use of the tools.

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April 29, 2020

Conference Call: Critical Care

Rachelle Peterson

Join NAS for a conference call this Friday at 3:30 PM Eastern, to discuss Critical Care, our plan to guide the federal response to higher education in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

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April 29, 2020

Scholars Announce Guidelines for Higher Education Bailout

National Association of Scholars

The National Association of Scholars has released a plan to guide the federal response to the unprecedented disruptions facing higher education in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

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April 28, 2020

Admissions Lotteries v.s. Merit

David Acevedo

How should college admissions change in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic? One scholar argues for random lotteries across the board.

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April 24, 2020

Toward a Renewed Study of Western Civilization

David Acevedo

A review of NAS's recent report, The Lost History of Western Civilization, by acclaimed historian Robert Paquette.

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April 24, 2020

Teaching Uncertainty

David Randall

The coronavirus pandemic has flung abstruse questions of scientific modeling to the forefront of public consciousness. How is the public to evaluate models intelligently?

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April 23, 2020

What's the Future of Higher Education?

National Association of Scholars

As classes move online, campuses close, and colleges ask for bailouts, we want to know: What's the Future of Higher Education?

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April 21, 2020

In Review: “The Breakdown of Higher Education”

David Acevedo

In his new book, John Ellis proposes strong legislative solutions to combat the ideological homogeneity in American higher education.

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Where Did We Get the Idea That Only White People Can Be Racist?

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....

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William Young finds much to praise in the hit musical....