Jan H. Blits (born April 6, 1943) is an American educational researcher and professor emeritus in the
University of Delaware School of Education. He is also the president of the
Delaware chapter of the
National Association of Scholars
The National Association of Scholars (NAS) is an American non-profit politically conservative advocacy organization, with a particular interest in education. It opposes a perceived political correctness on college campuses and supports a return ...
(NAS). He received the Prometheus Award from the
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education in 2009, and the
Jeane Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award
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from the
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in 2011. Along with his colleague
Linda Gottfredson he helped to shut down a Residence Life Program at the University of Delaware in 2007, which the NAS had described as an "indoctrination center". Blits also worked with Gottfredson during the university's attempts to prevent them from receiving research funding from the
eugenics-related
Pioneer Fund in the early 1990s. Blits and Gottfredson succeeded, and were allowed to accept funds from the organization.
References
External links
Faculty page
Living people
1943 births
St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) alumni
The New School alumni
University of Delaware faculty
Educational researchers
National Association of Scholars
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