June Newsletter
COVID Mandates, Common Core,
and Regime Change

Featured Articles

June 13, 2022

Regime Change: Repelling the DEI Assault on Higher Education

Peter Wood

The last few decades have seen a total transformation of higher education's mission in American society. What was once an institution that encouraged innovation, built character, and sought truth is now one that seeks to delegitimize the very nation whose ideals gave it room to flourish.

June 02, 2022

What Good Is Tenure?

Peter Wood

NAS President Peter Wood discusses the history of tenure and considers what may be done to reform this embattled institution for the sake of academic freedom.

May 31, 2022

Can America’s Colleges and Universities Be Saved?

David Randall

America’s current model of higher education cannot be sustained. We urge American citizens and policymakers to reform our higher education system while there is still time.

May 17, 2022

Educating for Citizenship: The Arizona Case Study

John D. Sailer

The National Association of Scholars’ newest report finds that instead of ensuring a robust civic education, Arizona’s universities prioritize an ever-growing number of classes rooted in critical theory.

Announcements


NAS Statement on Princeton's Firing of Professor Joshua Katz

The unceremonious firing of Professor Katz reveals the level to which university administrators will stoop to enforce ideological conformity on campus.

NAS Comments on Proposed DEI Requirement for Engineering Accreditation

The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology's proposed rule change would impose a radical political agenda on engineering education.

NAS Congratulates South Dakota on DEI Reforms, Encourages Further Action

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem and the South Dakota state legislature deserve praise, but they must go much further in their higher education reform.

NAS Urges States to Abandon the Common Core

After twelve years, it is clear that the Common Core is a failed experiment. The time has come to call this venture to a close.

NAS Offers Recommendations to Further Improve Colorado's Social Studies Standards

While better than the first draft, Colorado's latest draft social studies standards can still be substantially improved.

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.

Events

Celebrating America: A Webinar Series from the NAS

Join NAS for events on American history and literature. Our next events in the Celebrating America series include As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner on June 21st and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck on July 5th. View and register for these events and more here.

Pandemic Power: The Science, Legality, and Effects of COVID Mandates

Join NAS tomorrow at 2pm ET as we evaluate the science and legality of university COVID mandates and discuss the effects these policies had on faculty and students. Click to register.

Scientific Culture: Has It Changed for the Better?

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

Media

New Webinar Recordings from NAS

Watch the recordings of the National Association of Scholars’ most recent webinars, including My Ántonia by Willa Cather, Civics Education Reform in the States, and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Member Publications

John Ellis

“What Does Postmodernism Really Amount To?”
Claremont Review of Books. Spring 2022.
 

Robert Maranto

“Thomas Sowell Was Right As Usual”
RealClearPolicy. May 26, 2022.
 
“Which Police Departments Make Black Lives Matter, Which Don’t, and Why Don’t Most Social Scientists Care?” [with Wilfred Reilly, Patrick Wolf, and Mattie Harris]
Education Reform Faculty and Graduate Students Publications. May 23, 2022.
 

Richard Phelps

Richard Phelps (cont'd)

“The US Test Mess”
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. April 22, 2022.
 

Kenin M. Spivak

“Racial Quotas Won’t Improve Venture Capital”
National Review. June 02, 2022.
 

Elizabeth Weiss

“Repatriation and the First Amendment” [with Glynn Custred]
Free Inquiry, Vol. 42, No. 4 (June/July 2022).
 

William H. Young

“The Climate Emergency, the Public Voice, and Nuclear Energy”
National Association of Scholars. May 06, 2022.
 


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