March 31, 2025

Keeping Watch

Peter W. Wood

Columbia's descent into chaos is by its own hand. Actions to right the university must be swift and tough.

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March 31, 2025

NAS Urges Trump Administration to Preserve the Institute of Education Sciences

National Association of Scholars

Whatever the ultimate disposition of the Education Department, we believe that much of IES ought to be preserved in some administrative home.

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March 31, 2025

NAS-Influenced Ohio Senate Bill 1 Becomes Law

National Association of Scholars

Ohio Senate Bill 1 will invigorate higher education in Ohio and serve as a model of educational reform for the whole nation.

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March 27, 2025

Scholars Urge Senate to Pass DETERRENT Act

National Association of Scholars

We are thankful to the House for its passage of the DETERRENT Act and strongly urge the Senate to take up and act on this critical legislation.

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March 26, 2025

Hackers Reveal Racial Discrimination at New York University

National Association of Scholars

Hackers have embarrassed New York University (NYU) by breaking into the university’s servers and posting on NYU’s home page the statistics on how NYU commits race discrimination......

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March 25, 2025

The Future of Federal Student Loans

Kali Jerrard

The Trump administration’s decision to move the federal student loan portfolio to the Small Business Administration is being met with controversy.

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March 25, 2025

Utah Adopts Legislation Inspired by the General Education Act

National Association of Scholars

The new state law estabilishes a new "Center for Civic Excellence at Utah State University" to offer students courses in Western civilization and American civics rooted in the principles of cl......

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March 25, 2025

Scholars Endorse Texas HB 4561, a Politics Out of Schools Act

National Association of Scholars

The Texas legislature considers a bill to curb excused absences for student protests and protect students from partisan activism.

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March 24, 2025

NAS Commends Trump Administration for Education Department Executive Order

National Association of Scholars

Slash-and-burn is not enough: if it is to be closed forever, the Department of Education must be rooted out, statute by statute.

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March 24, 2025

A Reckoning for Higher Education?

Teresa R. Manning

Are American colleges and universities finally getting their comeuppance?

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December 16, 2025

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DOJ Does Away with Disparate Impact Theory

Disparate impact theory is on the Trump administration’s chopping block, signaling a move away from discriminatory government policy practices....

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The U.S. strike on Iran and the foreign funding shaping how universities respond to it....

March 11, 2026

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Bad Faith Noncompliance: Virginia Schools Flout Supreme Court and Trump with DEI ‘Rebrand’

Trump’s EOs and the Supreme Court make DEI illegal—but colleges keep rebranding it to dodge the law....

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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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Is art worth dying for? The Monuments Men considers the value of good art and its purpose in preserving a cultural heritage....

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