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President Trump’s day one executive orders promise ambitious and effective reform to rid American education of the many detrimental policy decisions that have accreted in the last years.

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NAS Welcomes Trump's Day One Executive Orders on Education by National Association of Scholars | NAS Statement January 21, 2025 Civics Education Education Reform Education Related Articles New Ohio American Birthright Bill Ohio's draft American Birthright Bill is gaining tractio...... NAS Statement on Ohio Higher Education Bill The National Association of Scholars and the Civics Alliance...... Colo...

Shakespeare’s usual editors, prisoners of their own professional presuppositions, are typically and completely unaware of Shakespeare’s remarkable depth and breath.

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Saving Shakespeare by Jan H. Blits | NAS Academic Questions Articles Winter 2024 Download PDF DOI: 10.51845/37.4.5 Related Article Making the Most of Our Civilization Editor's introduction to the Winter 2024 edition. How should one read Shakespeare? How should a reader approach a Shakespeare play to find the meaning that Shakespeare put in...

Technology transfers to China threaten our national security, economy, and education.

We urge Congress to take more action against universities facilitating these transfers.

NAS Urges Congress to Target Universities in Order to Stop Technology Transfers to China by National Association of Scholars | NAS Statement January 21, 2025 China Foreign Influence Related Articles NAS Statement on the Deterrent Act The National Association of Scholars is pleased to see...... Can Florida Ban Chinese Academics from University Employment? We applaud the efforts of Florida lawmakers to address malig...... Texas ...

We welcome President Trump’s day one executive orders on education.

We hope these executive orders signal a new golden age for academic freedom.

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NAS Welcomes Trump's Day One Executive Orders on Education by National Association of Scholars | NAS Statement January 21, 2025 Civics Education Education Reform Education Related Articles NAS Statement on Ohio Higher Education Bill The National Association of Scholars and the Civics Alliance...... Colorado Board of Education Considers an Amendment to Adopt Standards Based on "American Birthright"....

Steve Balch fears that Artificial Intelligence will treat us “as collateral damage in whatever global makeover the intelligent machines may eventually oversee.”

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Transhumanism and the Cure for Suffering by Steve Balch | NAS Academic Questions Articles Winter 2024 Download PDF DOI: 10.51845/37.4.9 Related Article The Coddling of the American Woke Jukka Savolainen peruses Yascha Mounk’s The Identity T...... Editors’ Note: The heterodox theories presented in our spring 2024 special feature “The State of Evolution”...

Biden's Education Department expands student loan forgiveness to over 5 million borrowers, sparking GOP backlash and calls for reform of higher education financing.

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Student Loan Bailouts and the 119th Congress: Time to Ask Tough Questions by Teresa R. Manning | NAS Article January 17, 2025 Student Loans/Debt Government Policy Related Articles 0% Interest on Student Loans Is the Next Debt Forgiveness Interest-free student loans benefit the higher education sys...... Science and Bias Report reveals lack of scientific foundation for widely used...... Forgive and....

We must resist the latest effort by academic historians to memory-hole our nation’s history.

David Randall on saving American history:

We Must Save American History If We Want to Save America by David Randall | NAS Article January 15, 2025 Civics Education American History Related Articles Announcing the New Civics Alliance Website Over the past few years, civics has taken center stage in th...... Ask a Scholar: Compare Views of Liberty in Late Colonial America Professor Martin Burke sorts out several contrast...

How can schools prepare for the enrollment cliff of the next few years to keep their doors open?

Find out in our latest edition of CounterCurrent:

A Budget and Business Forecast by Kali Jerrard | NAS Article January 14, 2025 Administration Academic Reform CounterCurrent Related Articles President Trump’s Plans for Higher Ed The Trump administration seems most concerned with helping p...... Academic Freedom Isn’t Free If higher education cannot hold itself to its founding princ...... $300,000...

In a sweeping opinion that applies throughout the country, a federal court in Kentucky has stopped the new, bad Biden Title IX Rule from taking effect anywhere.

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Press Release: Kentucky Court Blocks Biden Title IX Rule Nationwide by National Association of Scholars | NAS Press_Release January 10, 2025 Legislation, Federal Title IX Law Related Articles Statement on New Title IX Regulations These regulations are a step in the right direction for refo...... Press Release: NAS Applauds Passage of HR 1516 The House’s passage of HR 1516 is a necessary step to...... Roll...

The National Association of Scholars is proud to host Dr. Wilfred McClay as part of our new Future of Freedom Lecture Series.

Explore the various thinkers who have been critical to our understanding of the intellectual right:

Future of Freedom Lecture Series, featuring Wilfred McClay Join the National Association of Scholars for a lecture by Dr. Wilfred McClay as part of our Future of Freedom Lecture Series

The National Association of Scholars applauds the vigilance of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party in opposing subversion from China.

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To Stop Technology Transfers to China, Investigate American Universities by National Association of Scholars | NAS Article January 09, 2025 China Higher Education Foreign Influence Related Articles Academia’s Self-Eating Snake Ethnic studies and educational activism are consuming curric...... The Risks of Internationalizing American Colleges Higher ed’s push to import students poses a substantia...... “The...

The Oklahoma State Department of Education has done excellent work to improve the state's draft social studies standards.

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Comment on Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies by The Civics Alliance | NAS Article January 06, 2025 Legislation, State Social Studies Related Articles Diversity Statements, State Standards, and More Harry Trumans From cutting-edge reports to model legislation, the Civics A...... Exciting Endorsements, Engaged Citizens, and New Virginia Standards The holiday season is upon....

William L. Howard assesses the effectiveness of two new studies that attempt to bolster and reclaim the South’s literary gravitas.

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A Persistent and Dissenting Voice: The Literature of the South by William L. Howard | NAS Academic Questions Review Essays Winter 2024 Download PDF DOI: 10.51845/37.4.11 Related Article Psychology Captured Anthony Daniels wades through the multi-author Ideological a...... Classical Origin of Southern Literature, James Everett Kibler Jr., Abbeville Institute Press, 2022, pp. 392, $37.00 h...

What can we expect from the Trump Administration on Title IX?

Teresa Manning offers her thoughts and recommendations in a new article for American Greatness.

Trump, Title IX and 2025: Restore Real Learning; Stop Fringe Sexual Politics by Teresa R. Manning | NAS Article January 02, 2025 Title IX Politics Higher Education Related Articles States Lead a Happy Title IX Revolt Since the Biden Education Department announced its disa...... Should Colleges and Universities Promote Abortion? After the Dobbs decision last year, debate over the abortion...... Divers...

The National Association of Scholars welcomes the nomination of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National Institutes of Health, and we urge him to prioritize bringing best scientific practices to the NIH.

NAS Welcomes Nomination of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to Lead NIH by National Association of Scholars | NAS Article December 30, 2024 Science Reform Higher Education Related Articles George Mason: Dodging Diversity Criticism By almost every measure, American higher education is about...... The Diversity Camel Gets Its Nose Under the Engineering Tent An engineering professor writes about the incursion of p...

In a new article for Minding the Campus, Leo Krubner explains why the freedom to doubt is something that higher ed must embrace.

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Higher Ed Must Embrace Doubt — Minding The Campus One of the great blessings of life in an open society is the freedom to doubt. There is no state religion that can demand our fealty. There are no ideologies sufficiently empowered to enforce our obedience. And, though there certainly isn’t any requirement to entirely reject an established order, ...

Policymakers may be waking up to the fact that America’s biggest threats are not just abroad but within our classrooms.

Ian Oxnevad on how America teaches Marxism:

The House is Right: Communism Has No Place in American Schools by Ian Oxnevad | NAS Article December 17, 2024 Communism CounterCurrent Foreign Influence Related Articles The Scandal That Couldn’t be Swept Away The University of Washington is back in the hot seat after a...... The New Loyalty Oaths DEI statements are a failure of priority.  New Book Outlines Fifteen College Reope...

As we close out the year, there appears to be more light than darkness peaking through the curtains, even on these short winter days.

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from NAS!

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from NAS by Chance Layton | NAS Article December 24, 2024 State of Higher Education Future of Higher Education Related Articles NAS on the Harvard President's Resignation The National Association of Scholars welcomes the decision b...... The Next President Should . . . Higher ed reforms for the next administration and Congress. Tr...