Accreditation, Free Expression, and the Great Gatsby
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August Newsletter
Accreditation, Free Expression, and The Great Gatsby
** Featured Articles
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July 25, 2022
** Against Transgenderism ([link removed])
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National Association of Scholars
The National Association of Scholars is striving, perhaps against the temper of the times, to expand the “Overton window” of matters that can be debated with reason, evidence, and good will in American higher education. In recent years, the ideology of transgenderism has been striving to slam the Overton window shut. Our statement argues that the gender spectrum ideology that undergirds transgenderism is fundamentally a means of power and control.
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August 15, 2022
** Mandatory DEI Statements Undermine Academic Freedom at UNC-Chapel Hill ([link removed])
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John D. Sailer
The diversity, equity, and inclusion statements that many departments require of job applicants fly in the face of the university's commitment to free expression.
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August 09, 2022
** American Birthright: A Response to Critics ([link removed])
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David Randall
The defenders of the radical education establishment have begun to respond to American Birthright, not least by presenting a distorted caricature of what the standards contain.
** Announcements
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** Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Take Over the University of Tennessee, Report Finds ([link removed])
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A new report examines Diversity Action Plans at the University of Tennessee and finds that the plans espouse an ideology that makes narrow identity categories a central learning objective.
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** Summer 2022 Issue of Academic Questions Now Available on NAS Website ([link removed])
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The newest issue of Academic Questions seeks out the few good ideas that arose from the 1960s and ‘70s counterculture. Click here to read the issue for free online! ([link removed])
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** NAS Supports Governor DeSantis in the Battle over Florida Accreditation Reform ([link removed])
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The National Association of Scholars supports Governor Ron DeSantis in his struggle against the U.S. Department of Education’s effort to undermine Florida’s accreditation reform law.
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** Membership Action Item: Protect Title IX Due Process ([link removed])
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We urge all NAS members to submit a public comment describing how the Biden Administration's new proposed Title IX rule would erode due process protections.
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** Government Education Jobs ([link removed])
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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 ([link removed]) .
** Events
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** What’s Wrong with Science? ([link removed])
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Join NAS next Friday, August 26, at 3 pm ET for a fascinating conversation about the ongoing battle over the future of science. Click here to register. ([link removed])
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** Forging Ahead: Vocational Education and the American Dream ([link removed])
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Join NAS on Thursday, September 8, at 2 pm ET for a special discussion on vocational and technical education. Register online here ([link removed]) .
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** Celebrating America: A Webinar Series from the NAS ([link removed])
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Join NAS for events on American history and literature. Our next events in the Celebrating America series include Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton ([link removed]) on August 30 and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ([link removed]) on September 13. View and register for these events and more here ([link removed]) .
** Media
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** New Webinar Recordings from NAS ([link removed])
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Watch the recordings of the National Association of Scholars’ most recent webinars, including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain ([link removed]) , Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry ([link removed]) , Science in an Age of Unreason ([link removed]) , Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe ([link removed]) , and The Student Loan Crisis ([link removed]) .
** Member Publications
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** Elizabeth Eastman
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“Attacks on Pregnancy Centers Are More Than Mere Protests” ([link removed])
American Greatness. June 30, 2022.
** Erwin H. Epstein
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“School Choice, Racism, and the Quest for Equality” ([link removed])
Annual Review of Comparative and International Education: International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 42A (2021).
** Robert J. Lieber
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Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World ([link removed])
New Haven: Yale University Press. September 20, 2022 (forthcoming).
** Robert Maranto
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“A better way to reduce police violence” ([link removed]) [with Wilfred Reilly and Patrick J. Wolf]
Washington Examiner. July 14, 2022.
** Peter Minowitz
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“Discomfort Is Still Legal” ([link removed])
Inside Higher Ed. May 03, 2022.
** George H. Nash
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“A Troubled Presidency: What Can Herbert Hoover Teach Us Today?” ([link removed]) [podcast]
Exploring the Question, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation. August 08, 2022.
** Steven E. Rhoads
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The Economist’s View of the World: And the Quest for Well-Being ([link removed])
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. October 21, 2021.
** Alexander Riley
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“Marxism Misunderstood” ([link removed])
Chronicles. August 01, 2022.
** Stephanie Holden Smith
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“The Civics Secures Democracy Act is a leftist attempt at a cultural coup” ([link removed])
1819 News. August 02, 2022.
** Kenin M. Spivak
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“Ending Due Process” ([link removed])
American Mind. August 12, 2022.
“Association of Medical Colleges Prioritizes Radical-Left Dogma over Patient Care” ([link removed])
National Review. August 06, 2022.
“The Left Is Not Like Us” ([link removed])
American Mind. August 02, 2022.
“Resegregating American Education” ([link removed])
National Review. July 17, 2022.
“Transgenderism, When Rights Collide” ([link removed])
American Mind. July 14, 2022.
** Elizabeth Weiss
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“There’s no such thing as a nonbinary skeleton” ([link removed])
Spiked. August 10, 2022.
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