Title IX and Trans Athletes: Victories and Stand Offs as Trump Perseveres—Bravo! 

Teresa R. Manning

Trump's Title IX crackdown puts schools on notice: no more men in women’s sports—or risk losing federal funds, as UPenn learned with its $175 million wake-up call. 

Resignation of UVA President Opens Door for Progress 

National Association of Scholars

The National Association of Scholars welcomes the resignation of James Ryan from the presidency of the University of Virginia. 

New Accrediting Organization is a Welcome Sign of Change 

National Association of Scholars

The creation of the Commission for Public Higher Education is good news for the future of accreditation reform. 

Education Secretary Linda McMahon Keeps Her Cool 

Teresa R. Manning

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon calmly fielded partisan jabs while sounding the alarm on campus bloat, anti-Semitism, and ideological intolerance infecting American higher education. 

NAS Welcomes UPenn's Agreement to Resolve Title IX Violations 

The University of Pennsylvania’s resolution agreement is only the beginning of the necessary campaign to undo the edifice of lies labeled as “gender identity” and “gender expression.”

Ohio Signs Law to Depoliticize Colleges and End DEI 

Ohio Senate Bill 1 will do an extraordinary amount to depoliticize Ohio’s public higher education system, strengthen intellectual diversity, and restore its accountability to Ohio policymakers and citizens.

The Viewpoints Fellowship

Bring The Viewpoints Fellowship to your campus! Viewpoints is an innovative, peer-led fellowship for college students focused on developing curious approaches to difference and disagreement. It builds campus-based cohorts of student leaders from different universities, teaches an interdisciplinary method of approaching difference with curiosity, and empowers its fellows to create and implement programming promoting this approach in their own communities. The program is being piloted at Elon and Dartmouth in 2025-26, and we are looking for 4-5 schools to join our next cohort. Learn more at www.viewpointsproject.org, or contact Shira Hoffer at [email protected], deadline is October 2025. 

Cleveland State University Job Openings

Cleveland State University's Center for Civics, Culture and Society is hiring several positions for the 2025-26 year. Find out more about the Assistant Director position here, and the Post-Doctoral Fellow (Multiple) here.

Government Education Jobs

Are you looking for a job? Check out our list of U.S. Government jobs pertaining to the education sector. Click here to access our pdf of government job websites.

Shifting Sands: False Positives

Join the National Association of Scholars on Tuesday, August 19, at 2 pm ET for the launch of the fifth report in the Shifting Sands project, showing how activists utilize false positive research results to impose unjust regulations. 

The Week in Science

Find the latest episodes of The Week in Science, a podcast by NAS Director of Science Programs Scott Turner, here.