We invite you to join us this Thursday at 2:00 pm ET for a special webinar on COVID mandates and higher education and next week for a discussion of scientific culture. 

More on our upcoming webinars:

Join NAS this Thursday at 2 pm ET for a discussion of the science, legality, and effects of university COVID mandates.

In Spring 2021, thousands of universities across the country gave students and employees the ultimatum: get vaxxed or don't come back. Soon after, a handful of universities pushed the envelope by mandating double masks and booster shots for students—the population least at risk from COVID.

Administrators imposed draconian policies that stripped university communities of their civil liberties. Hundreds of university employees lost their jobs. Students lost access to quality education as universities wavered in their decisions to host in-person classes.

But some pushed back.

This webinar will feature Todd Zywicki, a George Mason University law professor who challenged his university's vaccine requirement; Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist and biostatistician who co-authored "The Great Barrington Declaration"; and Joni McGary, mother of a Dartmouth College student who founded No College Mandates.

The discussion will be moderated by Neetu Arnold, senior research associate at the National Association of Scholars.

To learn more about the event, click here. 

Join NAS on Friday, June 24th, at 3 pm ET, for a discussion of how the culture of science has changed over the last century.

The academic sciences were fundamentally transformed in the aftermath of World War II. Prior to the war, science in the universities had been supported by a loose coalition of institutional funds, philanthropic foundations, commercial interests, and ad hoc funding sources: the Small Science ecosystem. After the war, the academic sciences became the client of the federal government, through the establishment of the National Science Foundation, and an expanding range of federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, and several others. The pre-war Small Science ecosystem has thereby been transformed into the Big Science ecosystem.

Is Big Science an improvement over Small Science?

This webinar will feature Stephen P. Turner, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Florida, and Daryl E. Chubin, an independent consultant, and Founding Director of the AAAS Center for Advancing Science & Engineering Capacity. The webinar will be moderated by J. Scott Turner, Director of the Intrusion in the Sciences project at the National Association of Scholars.

The discussion will center on Turner’s and Chubin’s article "The changing temptations of science," published recently in Issues in Science and Technology. The article is available online here.

To learn more about the event, click here. 

If you can't attend the events live, you can still register to watch the recordings. All registrants will receive a follow-up email with a link to the recording shortly after each event.

If you have missed any of our past events or webinars, you may find all of our recordings here: https://www.youtube.com/user/NAScholars/videos.

I look forward to seeing you in the virtual audience!
 

Best,
Chance Layton
Director of Communications
National Association of Scholars