What does NAS stand for?

This stuff tends to be one dimensional and presumes the guilt of an archetypal white male," said Glenn Ricketts, spokesman for the National Association of Scholars.

Peter Wood was recently appointed executive director of the National Association of Scholars.

Meanwhile the National Association of Scholars, a conservative network of college educators, has received millions of dollars to squelch liberalism on college campuses.

Steele also is a member of the National Association of Scholars, the national board of the American Academy for Liberal Education, and the University Accreditation Association.

Stephen Balch, president of the National Association of Scholars, which has about 4,300 members, the majority of whom work in academics, question Cascadia's approach to learning.

The report, by the National Association of Scholars, concludes that the core curriculum "has largely vanished" over the past 30 years, and that there has been "a purging from the curriculum of many of the required basic survey courses used to familiarize students with the historical, cultural, political and scientific foundations of their society.

Further, the National Association of Scholars said 23 March this year that it was sending letters to "selective public colleges" in 20 states, demanding details on "university policies, practices, or procedures, formal or informal, relating to the use of racial and ethnic considerations in admissions to or eligibility for any undergraduate, graduate, or professional school program, activity, or benefit.

As a recent report from the National Association of Scholars (NAS) noted, leading undergraduate institutions have overseen a steady decline in core course requirements - humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.