Recent Articles

NAS Condemns PSU-AAUP’s Defamation of Professor Bruce Gilley

Professor Bruce Gilley has been canceled—again. This is now the third time that he has been censured by the academic community for his work on anti-colonialism.

How Many Confucius Institutes Are in the United States?

Updated 3/12/2021: We're keeping track of all Confucius Institutes in the United States, including those that remain open, those that closed, and those that have announced their closing.

SCOTUS Allows First Amendment Lawsuit against Georgia Gwinnett College

The case is a sober reminder that college increasingly offers a false concept of comfort rather than education.

What Does College Cost America?

Americans now carry $1.7 trillion dollars in student debt. How did we get here? A new report by Research Associate Neetu Arnold gets to the heart of the matter.

Most Recent from Minding The Campus

Georgetown Law Professor Fired for Telling the Truth

A law professor at Georgetown University has been fired for pointing out that black students got lower grades in her classes. This was not due to racism. Black students get lower grades at selective c...

The Ramallah Quakers

It is hardly a surprise that Sa’ed Atshan would be given tenure at Swarthmore College. What is noteworthy is how this came about, something well beyond the normal tenure process in academe. It points...

Reports

Priced Out

As more Americans attend college, costs rise, and more students fail to graduate, we ask, "why?" Priced Out details the spending habits of 50 universities across America and provides...

Freedom to Learn

Freedom to Learn provides a guideline of 40 detailed suggestions for legislative reforms. These initiatives, if enacted by Congress, would encourage reform of America's costly, politicized, a...

Rebalancing the Narrative

Rebalancing the Narrative: Higher Education, Border Security, and Immigration discusses the various dimensions of immigration policy and suggests topics for debate. This report gives students and...

Disfigured History

Disfigured History: How the College Board Demolishes the Past details the careless, politicized history in the College Board's revisions of the Advanced Placement (AP) European, United States, and...

CounterCurrent


March 9, 2021

What Does College Cost America?

Americans now carry $1.7 trillion dollars in student debt. How did we get here? A new report by Research Associate Neetu Arnold gets to the heart of the matter....

March 2, 2021

California Inches Closer to Ethnic Studies Mayhem

California's Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum is set to be finalized and published on March 31. What will it cost students if it does indeed cross the finish line?...

February 23, 2021

Want a Promotion? Join the Church of DEI.

The University of Utah Department of Physics & Astronomy has proposed a new faculty policy that would require professors to confess their faith in diversity, equity, and inclusion to be...

Statements

ED and DOS Issue Urgent Warning About Chinese Influence in American Schools

NAS commends the Education and State Depts. for issuing two joint letters urging American education leaders to investigate possible Chinese government influence in their schools.

Trump Orders No Federal Funding for CRT and Stereotyping

Last month, the president took two key actions affecting higher ed: a memorandum tackling Critical Race Theory and Executive Order 13950.

Press Releases

Rolling Back Title IX Due Process Protections is Wrong

The National Association of Scholars condemns the Biden Administration’s steps to roll back due process rights in campus Title IX proceedings.

New Report Details Systemic Failure of College Finance, Proposes Reforms

Colleges and universities have facilitated a massive transfer of wealth from American families to higher education bureaucracies through rising tuition and student debt, finds a new report by the Nati...

Events

Webinar Event: A Book Too Risky to Publish

A Book Too Risky to Publish provided an extensive critique of academic censorship and self-censorship of free speech and open inquiry. To remember the recent passing of Prof. James Flynn, NA...

EVENT: Woke and Broke

Join the National Association of Scholars online or in-person on March 4th for the launch event of Priced Out: What College Costs America. The report details how universities and government polic...