April 16, 2010
Students write about "text-speak," Larry Summers, whether bad weather makes students superhuman, "gender justice," and the unwelcome selection of Martha Nussbaum as graduation speaker.
April 15, 2010
Inside Higher Ed today has a revealing story about grading and academic standards. Louisiana State has removed a professor who insisted on a rigorous approach to her introductory biology class at th......
April 15, 2010
George Leef highlighted his Pope Center article analyzing the Bologna Process, an effort to standardize European higher education requirements and make it easier for students to transfer to universi......
April 15, 2010
The shape of satire is circular; what a satire mocks can never be shown as improving because satire’s aim is to expose, ridicule, and thereby correct, similar folly in reality. Nothing cha......
April 15, 2010
Clarifying President Obama's 2020 higher ed goal - sending more students to college won’t make the United States the best-educated nation.
April 14, 2010
In this week's Clarion Call, I write about the recent book The Challenge of Bologna, which argues that the European higher education reform process poses a serious challenge that the US needs to......
April 14, 2010
Forget that taxpayers are being crushed by reckless government spending. Forget, for example in New York State, that they are being ground under by a $9.2 billion budget deficit for the newly......
April 13, 2010
Adam Scrupski, a former board member of the NAS, is quoted in today's Wall Street Journal in the article "The Fog Over Katyn Forest" by Bret Stephens. Stephens quotes a blog post by Scrupsk......
April 13, 2010
What does it mean to study literature and culture through Critical Discourse Analysis? Do you have any references of Latin-American authors that develop their work using this approach?
April 12, 2010
NAS had a quite a sustainability week; most notably, we got word that Stanford was voting on a proposal to make sustainability education a requirement for graduation. We wrote to the Committee on Unde......
March 3, 2026
The U.S. strike on Iran and the foreign funding shaping how universities respond to it....
March 11, 2026
Trump’s EOs and the Supreme Court make DEI illegal—but colleges keep rebranding it to dodge the law....
January 27, 2026
As Western civilization courses vanish from higher education, so too are history professors, to the detriment of our civilization....
May 15, 2015
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....
February 21, 2014
Is art worth dying for? The Monuments Men considers the value of good art and its purpose in preserving a cultural heritage....
October 17, 2018
William Young finds much to praise in the hit musical....
