May 6, 2008

A Head Full of Headphones: The Rise of iTunes U

Peter Wood

Smart AND fun: iTunes U combines higher learning with entertainment.

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May 2, 2008

University of Delaware Could Reinstate Residence Life Indoctrination Program

The University of Delaware has proposed a new program for residence life that looks just like the former program, known on campus as "the treatment." NAS exposed the abuses of UD's residence lif......

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May 2, 2008

Human Nature: NAS Attends an Environmental Justice Conference

Ashley Thorne

Ashley Thorne shares reflections on the "Race, Place, and Environmental Justice" conference held on campus at Princeton.

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April 28, 2008

Sustainability's Third Circle

Peter Wood

On college campuses, sustainability advocates are involving political nostrums and one-sidedness in a debate that requires equal representation of facts and positions.

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April 28, 2008

10. Just Say No to Racial Preferences

Tom Wood

Tom Wood asks the relevant question about racial preferences and contextualizes diversity research at the time of the Gratz and Grutter cases.

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April 22, 2008

Miscarriage of Academic Freedom?

Ashley Thorne

A Yale student's senior project raises questions about higher education's approach to art.

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April 22, 2008

Update on Georgia Curriculum

A conversation with a UGA academic advisor

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April 22, 2008

After the Manifestos: Building a New Reform Movement in Higher Education

Peter Wood

NAS Executive Director Peter Wood addressed the annual meeting of NAS affiliate, the Minnesota Association of Scholars on April 19. He offered an overview of the various reform initiatives in higher e......

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April 16, 2008

Stick 'Em Up!

NAS's newest member brings our attention to a legislative shootout between two education bills in California.

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Where Did We Get the Idea That Only White People Can Be Racist?

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....

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Hamilton: An American Musical - Its National Influence as Art

William Young finds much to praise in the hit musical....