We invite you to join us tomorrow at 2 pm ET for the virtual launch of our newest report and on Thursday for a special webinar on the student loan crisis. Plus, don't forget to register for next week's discussion of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

More on our upcoming webinars:

Join NAS tomorrow at 2 pm ET for the virtual launch of our newest report, Shifting Sands: Flimsy Food Findings.

Our discussion will highlight the need for broad and specific reforms to how the Food and Drug Administration procures and produces research to ensure America's regulations are based on sound science. Without these reforms, our government is relying on potentially faulty research to create and enforce regulations that affect the quality of life for millions of Americans.

The launch event will feature Louis Anthony Cox, Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, University of Colorado, and Jay Cordes, a data scientist and co-author of The 9 Pitfalls of Data Science. The event will also include report authors Stanley Young, CEO of CGStat and Research Fellow, National Association of Scholars; Warren Kindzierski, retired Professor, St. Albert, Alberta, and Director of the Shifting Sands Project; and David Randall, Director of Research for the National Association of Scholars.

To learn more about the event, click here. 

Join NAS this Thursday at 2 pm ET for "The Student Loan Crisis: What You're Not Hearing."

The problems of rising tuition, widespread student borrowing to pay that tuition and now talk of student loan forgiveness are all in the news. Policy debates seem to focus on whether student debt should be cancelled and, if so, for which borrowers and for how much.

These discussions often overlook more fundamental questions such as: Why has tuition increased at such an unprecedented rate? And why do young people and their families agree to pay so much more, often incurring high debt levels which can last a lifetime? Is this a wise course of action?

The webinar will feature NAS Senior Research Associate Neetu Arnold, author of Priced Out: What College Costs America, which details why and how college costs have skyrocketed and why young people and their families go along. Neetu will be joined by Bryan Caplan, Professor and Economist at George Mason University and author of The Case Against Education: Why the Education System is a Waste of Time and Money, and Naomi Schaefer Riley, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Senior Fellow at the Independent Women's Forum.

The discussion will be moderated by NAS Policy Director Teresa R. Manning, who has also written on the topic of student loan forgiveness, most recently last month in The American Conservative.

To learn more about the event, click here. 

Join NAS on Tuesday, July 19th, at 2 pm ET, for a discussion of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

“There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.”

What makes Uncle Tom's Cabin a great American novel? What effect did it have on attitudes toward slavery in America? Did the novel play a role in laying the groundwork for the Civil War?

This webinar will feature Steven Petersheim, Associate Professor of English at Toccoa Falls University; David Reynolds, Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; and Hollis Robbins, Dean of Humanities at the University of Utah. The discussion will be moderated by David Randall, Director of Research at the National Association of Scholars. 

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