SCOTUS on Student Debt Forgiveness, DEI Tests, and more
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March Newsletter
SCOTUS on Student Debt Forgiveness, DEI Tests, and more
** Featured Articles
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March 07, 2023
** SCOTUS on Student Debt Forgiveness ([link removed])
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Teresa Manning and Neetu Arnold
Can the Biden administration cancel student debt pursuant to the Congressional HEROES Act? That’s the question the Supreme Court considered at an oral argument on Tuesday, February 28, in two cases challenging the legality of the President’s plan to forgive over $400 billion worth of student loans.
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March 08, 2023
** Letter: Comments on Draft Tennessee Social Studies Standards ([link removed])
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Peter Wood and David Randall
Tennessee's draft Social Studies Standards provides a solid basis for social studies instruction.
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March 01, 2023
** EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS: The NIH's DEI Litmus Tests ([link removed])
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John D. Sailer
Exclusive diversity rubrics reveal that faculty hiring processes are being influenced by diversity statements on job applications.
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February 28, 2023
** Relaxed Mediocrity: Florida’s Mission to Reassert Board Control Over Faculty Appointments ([link removed])
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Peter Wood
Florida House Bill 999 re-asserts a forgotten piece of shared governance: board authority over faculty appointments.
** Announcements
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** NAS Statement on Safeguarding American Education from Foreign Influence ([link removed])
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American colleges and universities are for the American public interest, not the interests of any foreign country or global organization.
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** Resource: Reports and Studies on DEI ([link removed])
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Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has been the focus of many reports and studies over the last few years. Here, we collect links to all those studies for the benefit of other researchers.
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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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** Heterodox Academy: A good idea gone awry? ([link removed])
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Join the National Association of Scholars ([link removed]) for our next edition of Restoring the Sciences on March 17, 2023, at 3 pm ET for a discussion with Nathan Cofnas as we discuss the Heterodox Academy and what we can do to restore intellectual integrity and freedom to our increasingly degraded and censorious academy.
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** American Innovation: The Invention of the Typewriter ([link removed])
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How was the typewriter created? Who thought up the initial design, and how has that endured through to today's modern computer keyboards? Join the National Association of Scholars ([link removed]) on Tuesday, March 21st for the next American Innovation webinar to learn more.
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** Right Ideas: Michael Oakeshott ([link removed])
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Michael Oakeshott (1911–1990) was an English philosopher and political theorist, whose long career as a scholar helped define a distinctive vision of conservative thought. But what relevance do his thoughts have for conservatives today? Join us on Thursday, March 23, at 2 pm ET ([link removed]) for the next edition of our Right Ideas webinar series to find out.
** 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 Decolonizing Mathematics ([link removed]) , Harnessing Light—The Laser ([link removed]) , Right Ideas: Wendell Berry ([link removed]) , Neo-Segregation and the Institutionalization of Racial Preferences ([link removed]) , Diversity A Managerial Ideology ([link removed]) , Transforming the Skyline—The Elevator ([link removed]) , Pushing Back: The Renegade Institute ([link removed]) , and Mismatch and the Decline of Academic Standards
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** Member Publications
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** Roland A. Alum, Jr.
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“Cuarto aniversario de Álvaro Ínsua: abandonado en Cuba por académicos norteamericanos” [Álvaro Ínsua’s fourth anniversary—Abandoned in Cuba by North-American academicians] ([link removed])
Periódico Cubano. January 13, 2023.
** Elizabeth C'de Baca Eastman
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“Franklin’s Warning: A Republic . . . If You Can Keep It” ([link removed])
Review of Democracy and the History of Political Thought, edited by Patrick N. Cain, Stephen Patrick Sims, and Stephen A. Bock Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 49, no. 1 (2022): 43-48, American Greatness.
** John A. Gentry
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“Belated Success: Soviet Active Measures against the United States”
American Intelligence Journal 39:2 (2022), pp. 151-170.
** Nils A. Huag
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Politics, Law, and Disorder in the Garden of Eden: The Quest for Identity ([link removed])
Washington, DC: Academia Press. March 1, 2023.
** Robert Maranto
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“Don’t Fire Dilbert! Colleges Segregate More than He Does” ([link removed])
Minding The Campus. March 14, 2023.
** Robert Maranto & Shaka Mitchell
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“Black educator Marcus Foster has much to teach us today about schools” ([link removed])
New York Post. February 24, 2023.
** Jack Park
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“Leadership Command From Admiral Nimitz” ([link removed])
American Spectator. January 22, 2023.
“Reasons why we shouldn’t ‘Casinofy’ Georgia” ([link removed])
Insider Advantage. February 3, 2023.
** Elizabeth Weiss
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“Homeschooling: A Tool Against Indoctrination” ([link removed]) [link removed]
Liberty Unbound. March 12, 2023.
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