May 25, 2011

Abigail Thernstrom on Room for Debate

Ashley Thorne

NAS member Abigail Thernstrom weighs in on the question, "Is anti-white bias a problem?"

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May 25, 2011

Excellence at Colby...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

At Colby, excellence means doing whatever you want.

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May 23, 2011

Video: Jane Shaw on Great Books

"There are so many faculty members who have rejected all these great writings of the past."

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May 23, 2011

Totems in America

Peter Wood

Peter Wood defends the CUNY trustee who opposed an honorary degree for playwright Tony Kushner.

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May 20, 2011

CUNY Overlooks Ideological Discrimination

Mitchell Langbert

The City of University of New York is conducting a survey concerning discrimination with respect to protected classes under the Civil Rights Act and sexual orientation.

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May 20, 2011

Video: Peter Wood on Higher Ed Reform

At "Higher Education Reform: Where the Right and the Left Meet," NAS president Peter Wood spoke about what's wrong with higher ed and what we can do to fix it.

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May 20, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student news writers take a look at American misimpressions of the situation in Syria, life after graduation, the perils of publishing a political cartoon and excessively hyper campus activists.

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May 20, 2011

Absent from Class

Will Fitzhugh

What are students actually doing when they are in class? Do we expect them to be academically vigilant?

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May 19, 2011

Hey Hey Ho Ho

Ashley Thorne

Where did Western study go? NAS traces the decline of Western Civilization courses from 1964 to today in our report “The Vanishing West.”

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May 19, 2011

Moralism and Sustainability

William H. Young

Universities should prepare students to draw responsible rather than moralistic conclusions. Sustainability ideology, however, encourages people to make decisions based on personal or collective mor......

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