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National Association of Scholars
Leadership:President Peter Wyatt Wood
Website:http://www.nas.org/index.cfm

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The National Association of Scholars (NAS) was founded in 1987. Founding members created the organization to recruit faculty members from across the political spectrum to help defend the core values of liberal education. Today NAS stands as a watchdog to higher education for the entire country. They fight for quality curriculum and to uphold individual merit and oppose racial, gender, and other group preferences. [1]

Mission

  • "NAS is an independent membership association of academics working to foster intellectual freedom and to sustain the tradition of reasoned scholarship and civil debate in America’s colleges and universities."[2]

Issues

  • Ideological litmus tests in faculty hiring
  • Trivialized curricula
  • Hollow baccalaureate requirements
  • Restrictive speech and “civility” codes
  • Self-dealing administrators
  • Violations of academic freedom
  • Phony allegations intended to silence opposition
  • The post-modernist evisceration of the humanities
  • Politicized science[3]

Measures

Leadership

References

  1. ↑ National Association of Scholars,"Background,"retrieved February 9, 2011
  2. ↑ National Association of Scholars,"Mission,"retrieved February 9, 2011
  3. ↑ National Association of Scholars,"Issues,"retrieved February 9, 2011
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