March 31, 2010
Today Peter Wood posted an article explaining how academic freedom should be a privilege for anyone who is committed to the search for truth through rational inquiry and dispassionate and scrupulous......
March 31, 2010
Last week, the Pope Center released its latest paper, in which author Melana Zyla Vickers investigated the shadowy world of mandatory student accommodations for those who have (or at least have docu......
March 31, 2010
Our friends at FIRE continue their meritorious work on behalf of free speech on campus, this time at Duke, which, as you may recollect, has had some problems with the idea over the years. In this in......
March 31, 2010
Anyone who is committed to the search for truth through rational inquiry and dispassionate and scrupulous use of evidence deserves the protection of academic freedom.
March 30, 2010
Want to keep up with NAS but don't have time to go to our website every day? Sign up for email updates! We have a newly installed box at the top left corner of all pages of our website that says......
March 30, 2010
Cross posted from NAS.org NAS President Peter Wood appeared on the University Talk radio program to speak about federal direct lending as included in the reconciliation bill. He talked about ho......
March 30, 2010
Under pressure, 48 states have proposed common standards for grades K-12. Some of them are having second thoughts. Chester Finn says the standards should be taken seriously because they’re int......
March 30, 2010
"A lack of intellectual diversity hurts both left and right," contended John Ellis in a statement last week to the Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education of the California Legislatu......
March 30, 2010
For those readers who serve on faculty hiring committees, Roger Clegg, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, offers strategies for speaking up when the committee begins to talk about "diver......
March 30, 2010
Colleges create new sustainability programs and requirements, ASU publishes a student journal, universities participated in WWF's Earth Hour, and the sustainability generation comes of age.
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