June 13, 2013

NAS President to Debate at AAUP Conference

Tessa Carter

Peter Wood will debate issues concerning higher ed at AAUP's Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., this Friday.

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June 12, 2013

What We’re Reading: NAS Goes to the Beach

National Association of Scholars

Check out the NAS staff's summer reading recommendations.

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June 12, 2013

Gender Inequity Among the Gender Equity Enforcers

Peter Wood

In a sample study, NAS found that 83% of Title IX Coordinators are female.

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June 12, 2013

My review of Neil Gross's book, concluded

George Leef

George Leef concludes his critque of Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?

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June 11, 2013

What Would the Left Do without Emotional Causes?

George Leef

The current mania over fossil fuel divestment tends to be heavy on emotion and light on logic.

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June 11, 2013

Peter Wood in Society Magazine

Ashley Thorne

NAS president Peter Wood's article, “The Sixties Came Late to Bowdoin,” appears in the current issue of the scholarly journal Society.

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June 11, 2013

Poll: Public Support for Affirmative Action at an All-Time Low

Glenn Ricketts

No surprise: public support for affirmative action policies has dropped sharply. But it may be for different reasons than some academics think.

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June 10, 2013

Sexual Harassment: The Real Thing

Glenn Ricketts

This was genuine misconduct, and justice was well served.

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June 6, 2013

Old-Fashioned Advice to Princeton Women

Russell K. Nieli

Russell Nieli argues that the backlash against Susan Patton's letter to the Daily Princetonian has misunderstood her common-sense counsel.

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June 5, 2013

Sexual Harassment--The Feds Go Way Too Far

Peter Wood

Peter Wood evaluates the implications of the federal government's "breathtakingly broad definition" of campus sexual harassment.

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