The Changing Landscape of American Higher Education
The National Association of Scholars (NAS) will host a conference called The Changing Landscape of American Higher Education, on January 9-11, 2009, at the Washington Marriott in Washington, D.C.
The conference will feature such speakers as Abigail Thernstrom, author of No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning; the American Civil Rights Institute’s Ward Connerly, author of Lessons from My Uncle James; NAS’s Peter Wood, author of Diversity: Invention of a Concept; and Victor Davis Hanson, author, blogger, and columnist.
Panelists will debate and discuss several topics, including the contrast between government’s impulse to regulate and rapidly changing technology, and “Are the Dorms Being Politicized?”
Sound like a plan? Register for the conference here.
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Sylvia Wasson
Sunday, December 14th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
This conference should be attended by all higher education teachers, administrators and trustees who are interested in an unabashed view of how academic freedom and its brethren free speech have changed in today’s increasingly politicized academy.
The debate on “The meaning of Academic Freedom” between Cary Nelson, the president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and Peter Wood, the Executive Director of the National Assotiation of Scholars (NAS), promises to be quite an event.
Finally, all citizens and educators who believe that race preferences in college admissions and faculty hiring — in addition to a highly politicized curriculum — stand in the way of a genuinely “liberal” education simply must attend this important conference.