Colleges Give Up on Western Civilization
…which they denounced as Eurocentric, white-male indoctrination. One professor in the Times piece called the course an “affront … to women and members of minority groups.” Now, Stanford was about…
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A Racially “Woke” Agenda Is Now Hardwired in Public Schools
…to pull the anti-capitalist indoctrination would defeat the political purpose of the “ethnic studies” curriculum. At this point, the new curriculum has been put on hold while state education officials…
College Summer Reading: A Mandated Dive Into ‘Oppressed Minorities’
…molding when they read and scoff at cheap literature, offering more forthright indoctrination. Classics offer plentiful opportunities for contemplation and discussion, to be sure—but also plentiful pithy quotes an eager…
Want Viewpoint Diversity on Campus? Here’s How
…are distracting and disruptive to their collegiate goals. [How Social Justice Undermines True Diversity] Taking this new background about administrators into account, the extreme liberalism in indoctrination makes total sense….
Trump’s Flawed Plan to Promote Campus Free Speech
…hundreds of classroom hours where instructors propagate Marxist nonsense about white privilege, intersectionality, and on and on. The President may be better advised to focus on indoctrination, not free speech….
How Diversity Hijacked History 101 and All the Humanities
…just these identitarian, progressive terms. It’s what got her a job and will ensure her promotions. We have a heavy indoctrination coming from above, while at the same time a…
Race and Gender Studies Kick Shakespeare Out of Class
…their ideological indoctrination. To simplify, here are the three tenets of the campus radicals: 1. Dumb down curricula and stop the study of Western classics and canon and replace it…
Princeton Takes a Stand for Free Speech on Campus
…shells of their former selves, “mere facades that camouflage a campus culture that has rejected liberal tolerance and free inquiry in favor of dogma and indoctrination.” Speak Freely is Whittington’s…
Defending a Debased Version of the Liberal Arts
…indoctrination in illiberal ideology. The gist of the brief statement from the AAUP and the AAC&U is that the liberal arts have lost ground with students and the public because…
How ‘They’ Hijacked Anthropology
…of university administrations. Higher education has given up the attempt to understand the world and become little more than radical feminist and anti-Western political indoctrination. Image: Early man – Natural…
The New Campus Anti-Americanism
…form of political indoctrination and always has been; and above all its comprehensive insistence on conformity to a handful of progressive doctrines including diversity, multiculturalism, social justice, and sustainability. The…
Diversity Overreach at American University
…colleges and universities to enshrine ideological indoctrination into the curriculum in the name of diversity and inclusion. Racist Incidents on AU’s Campus The campus witnessed two dramatic racist events during…
Are Conservative Fears of Campus Indoctrination Overblown?
…faculty by those on the left, fears that college students suffer ideological indoctrination are overblown. In his sensible, nuanced reply, our friend Peter Wood suggests we understate the dangers. Peter’s…
Yes, Campus Indoctrination is Real
…means something, but does it mean that today’s college students are barely touched by the forces of campus indoctrination? Related: How a University Moved from Diversity to Indoctrination In the…
An Anti-Koch Rampage at Wake Forest
…the leftist zealots that they seem to have gotten nowhere with students at an ordinary school like Wake Tech where the focus is on useful learning rather than political indoctrination….
How Colleges Promote Censorship and Undermine Free Speech
…are achieved not via threats of legal action but rather through perfect genetic and behavioral engineering, endless indoctrination, anodyne feel-good phrases and drugs, and organized outlets for intense emotion and…
How Schools Create Social Justice Warriors
…them, “are meant to resonate most ringingly with progressive millennials and their tiniest charges.” Some of the lessons in “A Is for Anarchist,” a popular alphabet book, exemplify the indoctrination….
Re-Educating Whites on Campus
…“Whiteness and Race.” This eight-week indoctrination “professional development series,” the invitation states, “offers the opportunity for SJSU white-identified faculty to build their racial literacy through participation in a seminar focused…
DePaul—The Worst University for Free Speech?
…of years-safe spaces, micro-aggressions, speech codes, diversity bureaucrats, freshman orientation indoctrination, diversity training- can be found in embryonic form in this document. Almost immediately, clashes with students over free speech…
Diversity Oaths: Another Step Away from Honest Scholarship
…waste your time crafting a strong diversity statement — and you need not read any further in this essay.” Related: How a University Moved from Diversity to Indoctrination Two responses…
You Will Attend Purdue’s ‘Safe Zone’ Training Session
…from Diversity to Indoctrination Safe Spaces are of course designated places on campus where identity groups and their allies cluster to avoid supposed stereotyping, marginalization, and persecution. LGBT Safe Zone…
How a University Moved from Diversity to Indoctrination
…indoctrination, depending upon your point of view). Faculty members must embrace “knowledge, pluralistic perspectives and engagement beyond mainstream traditions,” by focusing on “unequal access to resources that derive from race…
Diversicrats Take on Catholic Scholar at Catholic College
…an ideological indoctrination factory. Reprinted with permission from The American Conservative Rod Dreher is a prominent conservative, more concerned with culture than with politics, who runs a blog at The…
The Lingering Love for Stalin
…or care about the past–but also by their support for Communist dictators. Ignorance only partially explains it. What the poll shows is their indoctrination by left-wing professors. And it is…
The Age of Liberal Education Is Ending
…universities will have become little more than seminaries of intolerance and indoctrination. Related: The Normalization of Bad Ideas I came to intellectual maturity during the first wave of the academic…
Political Tests for Faculty?
…the context of a public university supposedly committed to education rather than indoctrination, could such questions come from? They turn out to be based on a nearly 30-year-old report entitled,…
A Champion of Free Speech Takes on the Muzzled Campus
…human knowledge with the indoctrination of students into truth as it is postulated by self-righteous fanatics who think they have a monopoly on human wisdom, when in fact all they…
An Interview with Harvard’s Harvey Mansfield
…do is indoctrinate. And indoctrination is unprovably good, unprovably true. And that, I think, is why you’re seeing that lack of devotion to learning, and lack of accomplishment in learning…
Affirmative Action for Conservative Faculty?
…imbalance of power that inevitably leads to the intentional or even unintentional indoctrination of students. For their part, Dunn and Shields suggest that this concern comes mainly from outside of…
THE NORMALIZATION OF BAD IDEAS
…“biodenial” (see Professing Feminism: Education and Indoctrination in Women’s Studies), and noted how opportunistically the technique was used. In a fascinating more recent development, it has become clear that while…