An Update on the Mess at Bowdoin
…many universities seek not to understand the world as it is, but instead to structure a curriculum that will confirm campus doctrines on such matters as multiculturalism and social justice…
…many universities seek not to understand the world as it is, but instead to structure a curriculum that will confirm campus doctrines on such matters as multiculturalism and social justice…
…Three of these are straightforward re-packagings of leftist politics: sustainability, social justice, and diversity. How those actually play out in the courses students must take, I don’t know. Possibly the…
…U Penn report, summarizes: “MOOCs seem to be reinforcing the advantages of the ‘haves’ rather than educating the ‘have-nots.’” That kind of social-justice ideology reinforces a victim mentality that may…
…for instance, sees a de Blasio mayoralty as “Bringing Social Justice and Sustainability to New York.” Journalist Matthew D’Ancona writes that de Blasio’s election means “socialism is no longer a…
…prevention issues with men” and another whose most recent publication is “Teaching for Social Justice.”) In this respect, like the Group of 88 statement, the Ohio open letter is a…
…human and ecological health, social justice, secure livelihoods, and a better world for all generations. … … Because sustainability is a holistic and interdependent concept, our application of sustainability on…
…We seek to encourage freedom of expression, but freedom of speech should be accompanied by responsibility. This is a community dedicated to intellectual pursuit and social justice. The circulation of…
…license to continue to exercise our power while maintaining a superficial front of understanding and tolerance. True social justice work starts with grassroots activism and extends in scope from local…
The two most potent and ingenious threats to liberal education in our country today are political correctness and techno-libertarian “disruption.” Political correctness has corrupted the humanities and social sciences and…
…injustice by lusting after young women, though he engaged in that sort of lusting himself. He asserted that, while men may have real problems in today’s society, these woes are…
…As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously remarked, “Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric…
…make U.S. News & World Report’s list of top 25 universities — which just recognized its adjunct professors’ union, citing the Catholic Church’s social justice teachings, which favor labor unions….
…successful social-justice MOOC) makes a lot more sense than hearing him talk. And it’s ironic, after all, that those who criticize professors who are content to teach through lecturing alone…
…impossible, the creation of a program aiming to do intellectual justice to the Western miracle and the transformation of the human condition it has wrought. During its first ten months…
…students should imbibe. Since the college as community has virtually disappeared, common reading assignments are thought to fill the void. So called “social action” and “social justice” books are very…
…Like most academic work on gender, Kimmel’s writings are based on the premise that all traditional ideas of masculinity and femininity are socialized and oppressive. While this is a debatable…
…of Higher Education (July 5, 2013). Challenging Justice Clarence Thomas’ claim that there is “no principled distinction between the University’s assertion that diversity yields educational benefits and the segregationists’ assertion…
…right groups. The idea, launched in Justice Powell’s side comments in the 1978 case Bakke v. Regents of the University of California, is that everyone’s education is enhanced by exposure…
…into citizen-activists all about transforming communities, nations, and even the world in the name of removing inequities, fighting for inclusive diversity, achieving social justice, and fending off the impending catastrophe…
…Bernanke says, is “fairer and more efficient than some alternatives.” He might have said that according to the standards of justice oriented around individual rights and efficiency understood as maximizing…
…of Justice (DOJ) and the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in the U.S. Department of Education, informed the president of the University of Montana, Royce Engstrom, that they were “pleased…
…the abandonment of poor students by so many prestigious schools directly contradicts their core leitmotif: social justice. For all their rhetoric about “fairness,” and “empowerment,” the private university’s business model…
…the meeting, the Mountain Justice crowd began to clap in unison to drown her out. You can watch Charette try to speak and the Mountain Justice crowd clap her down…
A few months ago, a post with a shocking claim about misogyny in America began to circulate on Tumblr, the social media site popular with older teens and young adults….
By Harvey Silverglate and Juliana DeVries In a breathtakingly bold move, the civil rights offices of both the Department of Education and the Department of Justice have mandated the effective…
…we conservatives don’t deny for a moment the justice of this practical orientation; everyone really does have the personal responsibility to work effectively to secure himself and his (or her)…
…norms are all simply social constructs (an assumption that justifies virtually unlimited government intervention necessary to achieve the global citizen’s understanding of sexual justice); and to “sustainability” (which assumes that…
…non-fiction books about social justice. The strains of blank verse will not be coming from the EPA directives. Nor will students enjoy gentle laughter from Barbara Ehrenreich’s socialist polemics. As we lose…
…the Director of Diversity Recruitment, the Director of the Diversity and Social Justice Project, the Director of the aforementioned Days-Massolo Center, the Associate Dean of Students for Multicultural Affairs, among…
…expressed surprise that a major college president could hold “such strange historical views,” the Emory campus, social media, and lefty blogs erupted in a ballistic paroxysm of opprobrium. His column,…