The Invention of ‘Systemic Racism’
…Princeton’s faculty immediately and exponentially by hiring more faculty of color.” The signatories of the letter are both students and professors—most of whom are in the humanities and very few…
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Wanna Teach? Submit a Killer ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ Statement
George Will’s column last month on leftist bias in faculty hiring got to the heart of the practice but showed that conservatives can’t do a damn thing about it. He…
How Low Can Higher Education Go?
…of college faculty agree with the statement: ‘Most of the students I teach lack the basic skills for college-level work.’” It seems never to occur to the complaining college faculty…
The University of Texas Succumbs to the ‘Social Justice’ Pandemic
…view or interpret this article?” The Institute’s website maintains a “social justice directory” of faculty members “whose current research and teaching priorities intersect with social justice concerns, activist scholarship and/or…
The Trans Agenda Could Make You Choose Your Pronouns
…hours atop their syllabus and encourage students to include pronouns when introducing themselves to the class. Email signatures contain senders’ pronouns, as do department faculty profiles. In my academic discipline,…
‘Social Justice’ Ideology Is Damaging American Values
…participating in an expletive-filled faculty list-serve discussion denouncing Amy Wax, an embattled University of Pennsylvania law professor, should count toward the “intellectual labor” of minority faculty and be included in…
Double Standards on Free Speech
…Professor Rasmusen will use double-blind grading on assignments; if there are components of grading that cannot be subject to a double-blind procedure, the Kelley School will have another faculty member…
How to Cope With Your Prof’s Left-wing Bias
…drift toward mainstream left-of-center politics. Its primary driver is an explosion in the number of faculty who identify on the far left — a category that includes Marxists, socialists, and…
A Racially “Woke” Agenda Is Now Hardwired in Public Schools
…array of leftist notions — notions that make them highly receptive to further leftist teaching and calls for them to act against perceived enemies of the social justice agenda. [Where…
Where Does the Impulse to Vilify America and the West Come From?
…strive to gain power for their group, as well as power and status for themselves. Those on the political left see the campaign for “social justice” as a path to…
When Colleges Defraud Donors
…that Mizzou blatantly violated the terms of Wall Street financier Sherlock Hibbs’ will, who left $5 million to his alma mater upon his death to create multiple chairs to be…
Should False Rape Reports Be Punished?
…the campaign, although some Islamic Studies faculty members, perhaps with the same zealotry, joined in. Ibrahim has brought a civil suit in the amount of $600,000 against the instigating student…
Columbia Adds Multiculturalism to Core Curriculum
…has been utterly routed for a long time now. The few remaining cases, such as Columbia’s, won’t endure because the academic left won’t let them. It’s not enough for multiculturalists…
A Weak Attempt at Justifying Admissions Preferences
…supposedly enhance campus “diversity.” Professor Weisman’s case is not persuasive. Choosing to admit students (or to hire faculty or administrators) just because those individuals happen to have ancestry that puts…
Diversicrats Are All That’s Left on Campus
…and inspiring. It was asserted that ‘The Dead White Males’ on the syllabus were stale and unchanging. Old white males on the faculty were “deadwood” and “dinosaurs.” Women and minorities…
The Wolves of the Academy
University faculty have been notable for “odd” views, but today’s campuses are manufacturing screwball ideas on an industrial scale. Moreover, these ideas are hardly harmless unlike say, Esperanto. Rather, they…
Before You Donate to Your Alma Mater…
Colleges and universities can be relentless in pursuing their graduates for donations. They publish alumni magazines with glowing accounts of their faculty, students, and alumni, sponsor “Alumni Weekends” to show…
How Nine Universities Pander to Campus Radicals
…Tulsa, has unleashed a 3,500-word cri de coeur, Storm Clouds Over Tulsa, in City Journal. It is well worth reading if you have any indignation left in your cellar over…
The Bullying and Silencing of Students
…among many varied items that my ‘position at the College be put up to tenure review to a panel of the Diaspora Coalition and at least three faculty members of…
The Campaign to Indoctrinate – not Educate — Students Against the West
…to offer degrees in Western civilization. Decrying the way in which the left had politicized higher education in the West, Abbott saw the Ramsay Centre as a new “long march…
The Four Unspoken Rules for Getting Into College
…Journal reporter, wrote a great book in 2005: The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates. The lure…
Sarah Lawrence Professor Under Attack for Incorrect Thoughts
…but muscular in tone, charging that college administrators across the country, are creating one-side progressive programs for college students to push students to the left. On his own campus, he…
Would a New Conservative University Level the Field?
…concerted, organized effort…The issue is not one of conspiracy but a matter of rhythms, routines, and behaviors.” The academic left, in this view, sleepwalks into its near total domination of…
Diversity Requirement at UCLA Threatens Academic Freedom
…dedicate a substantial part of their efforts to activities that look good on an EDI statement. It’s not the faculty members themselves. It’s not even the faculty at large. No,…
The Campus Rape Culture That Never Was
…left feminist faculties of education not surprisingly favor females in their classrooms. Boys are unwelcome and drop out of school at increasing rates. Universities, where “rape culture” has become a…
When Identities Clash, Who Wins–Victim or Perp?
…University of Southern California’s Race and Equity Center, argues that “it’s the job of the police, not the job of faculty, staff and students, to do the work stopping the…
Academic Activists Make a Published Paper Disappear
…faculty meeting the week before, the Department Head had explained that sometimes values such as academic freedom and free speech come into conflict with other values to which Penn State…
Race and Gender Studies Kick Shakespeare Out of Class
…Berkeley, Yale, Evergreen State, University of Missouri, Pomona, Harvard, and UCLA are described throughout the book. The events are orchestrated or abetted by leftist faculty who have either started a…
The Growing Threat of Repressive Social Justice
…opinion that ranges from “progressive” to leftist to far leftist–is blocked or disrupted. Classical liberal, moderate, and conservative groups are often neither recognized nor funded by student unions, while all…
How a Social Justice Mob Fired a Tenured Professor
…the arbitrary firing of tenured faculty members who voice doubts about the sacred doctrines of the left. Jordan is a Hard Road to Travel Mehta taught at Acadia for fifteen…