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National Association of Scholars NAS is a network of scholars and citizens united by a commitment to academic freedom.
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NAS is a network of scholars and citizens united by a commitment to academic freedom, disinterested scholarship, & excellence in American higher education.

20 state attorneys general are suing over the federal contractor DEI crackdown, while the White House doubles down on me...
06/18/2026

20 state attorneys general are suing over the federal contractor DEI crackdown, while the White House doubles down on merit. DEI discrimination has no place in a system built on individual dignity and excellence.

The plaintiffs argue the president’s March executive order impedes each state’s efforts and is unclear in what it prohibits. 

China’s grueling university entrance exam, the gaokao, is facing major shifts driven by artificial intelligence and chan...
06/18/2026

China’s grueling university entrance exam, the gaokao, is facing major shifts driven by artificial intelligence and changing demographics.

Demography and AI are set to transform the gaokao

The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has been keeping busy lately—and with good effect. We’re trying to reform hig...
06/18/2026

The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has been keeping busy lately—and with good effect. We’re trying to reform higher education as our central mission, but that necessarily requires a fair bit of public policy work.

Read our latest accomplishments:

From Iowa to Washington, NAS is advancing reforms in higher education, science policy, and civic education.

“Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.”David Randall on educatio...
06/18/2026

“Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.”

David Randall on education's negative framing toward conservatives as moral outcasts:

Universities do not merely disagree with conservatives. They increasingly regard conservative thought as morally beyond the pale.

A new Iowa Supreme Court ruling highlights the murky legal waters for race-based scholarships as the Trump administratio...
06/17/2026

A new Iowa Supreme Court ruling highlights the murky legal waters for race-based scholarships as the Trump administration targets these programs. Colleges nationwide are now scrambling to replace race-based criteria with neutral alternatives to avoid federal scrutiny.

Colleges and funders are replacing race-based scholarships with race-neutral alternatives as the Trump administration targets these programs, raising questions about their future.

David Randall argues that we must solve the higher-ed supply problem by creating a Sasse Society - a pipeline for leader...
06/17/2026

David Randall argues that we must solve the higher-ed supply problem by creating a Sasse Society - a pipeline for leaders who will actually dismantle the DEI status quo.

Education reformers must do far more than sit back and watch DEI apparatchiks lead our cherished public universities.

Iowa’s Higher Education Committee is the national gold standard for reform, proving how targeted legislative action can ...
06/17/2026

Iowa’s Higher Education Committee is the national gold standard for reform, proving how targeted legislative action can reclaim public universities.

Iowa’s House Higher Education Committee, set in motion by House Speaker Pat Grassley and chaired by Rep. Taylor Collins, has done a remarkable amount of good work in the last

Bella d’Abrera’s Mindless: How the Education System is Indoctrinating Children and Destroying Our Civilisation is an exc...
06/17/2026

Bella d’Abrera’s Mindless: How the Education System is Indoctrinating Children and Destroying Our Civilisation is an excellent summary of the radical left assault on modern education.

Read David Randall's full review:

Bella d'Abrera examines how leftist activism has transformed schools across Australia, Britain, and the United States.

Claire Harrington: The Federal Scholarship Tax Credit would give more families an opportunity to escape failing public s...
06/17/2026

Claire Harrington: The Federal Scholarship Tax Credit would give more families an opportunity to escape failing public schools.

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The Federal Scholarship Tax Credit could expand access to homeschooling, private schools, and charter schools.

A whistleblower cache exposes how the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation effectively merged with the NIH, creating a powerf...
06/16/2026

A whistleblower cache exposes how the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation effectively merged with the NIH, creating a powerful globalist cartel that quietly weaponized hundreds of millions in private funding to dictate federal biomedical research and public health priorities from the inside out.

Read the full investigation:

Bill Gates has long been one of the most admired people in the world, especially since he stepped down from his role running Microsoft to devote himself and much of his fortune to philanthropy. That r

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