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Importantly, Pope Leo is not opposed to innovation and technological change; his criticism is more about us humans than about machines. He does not ask society to abandon AI or pretend that medicine, education, accessibility, scientific research, and public services cannot benefit from it. His warning is that a tool becomes dangerous when it is anthropomorphized.
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The new Vanderbilt report critiques humanities scholarship for letting political ideology override the pursuit of truth.
@DavidRandallnas notes the report doesn't go far enough: "If they’re actually serious about academic reform, they will act rather than sponsor more faculty gab-fests."
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With public confidence in universities dropping significantly over the last decade, can curated civility fix the campus marketplace of ideas, or does it just enforce conformity?
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Let us see some grievance-studies departments actually put into receivership at Vanderbilt. Let us see DEI bureaucrats fired at Washington. Let us see Diermeier and Martin show that the internal reform strategy actually will do something to improve the state of scholarship.
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Read @DavidRandallnas's call for reform:
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A massive federal crackdown on immigration has resulted in the revocation of some 8,000 student visas.
With new international student enrollment plunging by 17% and graduate pipelines drying up, universities are facing massive tuition revenue deficits.
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Groundbreaking Scholarship!
Forget lab safety and molecular biology—what your biomedical degree really needs is a healthy dose of Critical Race Theory to unmask secret inherent racism.
"CRT holds that ‘color blindness and race neutrality act as a camouflage for the self-interest, power, and privilege of dominant groups in American society’... the URE aligned programming, mentorship, and instruction with these tenets to address power dynamics in STEM disciplines."
Nothing says "scientific progress" like treating objectivity as a conspiracy theory.
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I’ve read through some of the reports of the Gates Foundation which exude pride and satisfaction with the results—as of course they would. But those results also have to be measured against the American public’s assessment of education.
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Peter Wood on Gates's legacy in education: mindingthecampus.org/2026/06…
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National Association of Scholars retweeted
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The test-optional experiment ends exactly as expected. Institutions are quietly admitting what we’ve argued for years: subjective admissions inevitably lower academic rigor.
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Columbia University has reinstated standardized testing for admissions — the last Ivy League school to do it.
“Through a multi-year faculty review, it was determined that test scores, among other factors, were a useful indicator of potential student success.”
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It was May 1776, and things were hopping in Virginia. The Old Dominion was the oldest, largest, and most prosperous of the British Colonies. It was the political center of America, with something like an aristocracy as well as a prosperous farmer and merchant class. True, Boston was the cradle of the Revolution. But Bostonians were men of less toughness than tongue; it’s good they had a Virginian to save their city from British occupation....
Read on at the American Revolution 250 substack: amrev250.substack.com/p/the-…
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Read on at the American Revolution 250 substack: amrev250.substack.com/p/the-…
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The Florida Department of Education is proposing a new rule requiring public college applicants to prove U.S. citizenship or lawful immigration status, aligning with the state's broader effort to restrict tax-funded higher ed benefits to lawful residents.
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National Association of Scholars retweeted
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.@Keith_Whitaker_ has contributed a brilliant essay on the Virginia Declaration of Rights, adopted on this day 250 years ago, to the @NASorg's American Revolution series, @AmRevolution250
It is well worth reading.
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NAS President Peter Wood exposes how California’s aggressive green energy mandates have left the state dependent on China.
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Read our report, "Behind the Climate Curtain": nas.org/report/behind-the-cl…
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The term “civilization” implies a bundle of collective accomplishments that have a deep sense of history behind them. You don’t get to hypersonic missiles without advanced mathematics, engineering, and the institutions that foster them.
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Read Peter Wood on the definition of civilization: mindingthecampus.org/2026/06…
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Coming soon: NAS is working on a new online community with discussion posts, resource sharing, daily updates & networking. Stay tuned!
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Hopefully, there will be follow-through on ensuring outside oversight of the AIM Committee’s proposed changes, should the changes make it through the final ruling. Oversight is essential after all.
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Kali Jerrard on the future of scholarship: nas.org/blogs/article/scruti…
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