December 1, 2008

The College Backgrounds of America's Leading Syndicated Columnists

Tom Wood

Journalism's roots in higher education remind us of the university's role in public society.

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November 26, 2008

NAS Renews Its Call to Make Accreditation Contingent on Fair Hiring

Today NAS urged ACCJC once again to take action to ensure that Santa Rosa Junior College is not violating Proposition 209.

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November 26, 2008

Chocolate Rage

Peter Wood

New anger in America sets cultural trends, writes NAS Executive Director Peter Wood.

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November 25, 2008

Recommendations for NASW

A letter to the key social work organization calls upon its new president to make changes to protect students.

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November 21, 2008

The College Backgrounds of America's Leading Newspaper Opinion Columnists

Tom Wood

A look at how higher education has influenced the analysts and inscribers of American public opinion.

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November 20, 2008

Beehive Whacking

Peter Wood

A professor who publicized names of plagiarizing students in his course was fired from Texas A&M International University. Many see the incident as a discouragement to faculty to report academic d......

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November 19, 2008

Good Sports

Peter Wood

How the college sports industry undermines higher education

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November 19, 2008

Highlights from our Fall Semester

Ashley Thorne

Wondering what NAS has been up to recently? Click here for a one-stop index of some of our favorite articles this fall.

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November 18, 2008

What Ails College Teaching?

Peter Wood

Is it the division of labor between tenured scholars and "teaching specialists"?

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November 17, 2008

Feminizing Science: The Alchemy of Title IX

Patricia Hausman

Will gender balancing come to dominate science? The following article was published in Academic Questions (volume 21, number 4).

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