National Association of Scholars

221 Witherspoon Street, Second Floor
Princeton, New Jersey 08542-3215
www.nas.org

Founded: 1985
President: Stephen H. Balch
Publications: NAS Update quarterly newsletter, Academic Questions quarterly journal, and Science Insights; and occasional reports
Finances: Has an income of less than $25,000 per year.

NAS Principle Issues:

• NAS was founded to bring together conservatives in academia to fight the "liberal bias" on college and university campuses and to target multiculturalism and affirmative-action policies.
• NAS organizes professors, graduate students, college administrators and trustees, and scholars who believe that there is a "[d]ogmatic hostility to Western civilization, and turning the study of non-Western cultures into an instrument for denouncing American society" on college campuses.
• Fights against the "[d]ecline in civility on college and university campuses."

NAS Principle Activities:

• NAS builds scholar networks, organizes panels, conferences, and lectures and creates NAS campus communities. NAS organizes outreach programs to recruit new members.

Major Right Wing Donors:

• Sarah Scaife Foundation
• The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc
• Castle Rock Foundation
• John M. Olin Foundation

NAS's Board of Advisors:

• John H. Bunzel, Hoover Institution
• Edwin J. Delattre, American Enterprise Institute
• Chester E. Finn, Fordham Foundation
• Gertrude Himmelfarb, Independent Women's Forum
• Paul Hollander, National Review, Front Page Magazine
• Harry V. Jaffa, Claremont Institute
• Donald Kagan, Project for the New American Century
• Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, UN Ambassador under President Reagan, American Enterprise Institute
• Irving Kristol, American Enterprise Institute
• Richard D. Lamm, American Reform Party
• Leslie Lenkowsky, National Review
• Seymour Martin Lipset, Hoover Institution
• Christina Hoff Sommers, Independent Women's Forum
• Shelby Steele, Hoover Institution, Manhattan Institute
• Stephan Thernstrom, Manhattan Institute
• James Q. Wilson, Manhattan Institute

Updated July 2004