Documents: Mizzou Imposes DEI Litmus Test
…views about race, gender, racism, and social justice. Again and again, this fact is demonstrated by higher education DEI initiatives. By now, it should be obvious that diversity statements will…
…views about race, gender, racism, and social justice. Again and again, this fact is demonstrated by higher education DEI initiatives. By now, it should be obvious that diversity statements will…
…military leaders, many of them giants like Washington, Grant, and Eisenhower. Moreover, the world continues to be dominated by mass movements and dictators. Justice still involves sacrifice, and tyrannical hydras…
…Feminism also has drawn conclusions about biology and social life: social roles have no basis in biology and there are no biological differences between males and females; rather, social roles…
…the maintenance of prestige coincident with the elimination of injustice and exclusion. Elite schools want a filtering process that doesn’t look so elitist, so income-based, and so racially-biased. (The sexism…
…[Related: “Belling the DIE Cat”] Given the incompatibility between the values of liberal social justice and critical social justice, it is time for Americans to fashion similar compromises. Those of…
…topics as social justice, critical race theory, and intersectionality. Remarkably, Ohio State might be the worst offender in the nation—surpassing even such progressive bastions as the University of California, Berkeley….
…procedures Lhamon insists upon are back in place. [Related: “The ‘Social Justice Factory’ and Biden’s Title IX Regulations”] Lhamon’s new rules may also make it impossible for legal activists to…
…justice, judicial activism, and adversarial legalism, but they’re short on individual accountability. John Stuart Mill’s lesser known but perhaps more important work, Considerations on Representative Government, stresses the complementary behaviors…
In my sixth year as a professor—the same year that Barack Obama’s Department of Justice reshaped Title IX into a tool to police political speech on campus—a student filed a…
…as its new director of “justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.” McNeil helped found UCLA’s WC4BL’s chapter, and is involved in “establishing responsibility structures” such as “restorative justice circles” and “unconscious…
…While such oaths were opposed by professors during the McCarthy era, they now are embraced because they allegedly support “social justice.” More specific attempts at thought reform include official land…
…will reveal plenty of progressive buzzwords, such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), anti-racism, and social justice. Take, for instance, the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE),…
…to destroy all the academic disciplines by staffing them with commissars and by forcing them to pursue such euphemistically defined goals as “social justice,” “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” and so-called…
…nature. In addition to not receiving the complaints, I was told that I could not be investigated using the procedures attached to MRU’s Human Rights Policy, which contained natural justice…
…majority by definition do average work, are also an impediment to the goals of social justice. In most of the humanities and social sciences—especially the overtly political “Studies” fields—rigor has…
…handout, and the schools happily oblige. Today’s universities have infantilized their students, and nowhere is this child-like dependency more apparent than when students fight for “social justice.” Even a bake…
…of Tampa B.S. in Criminal Justice is a good example of a lean legal training program. It teaches one of the most complicated areas of law in a concise undergraduate…
…now, readers are aware of the ideological cancer that has infected universities: critical social justice, also known as wokeism. During the pandemic, it was administrators, not faculty or students, who…
…justice, they hate the U.S. Constitution, as it is designed to do the one thing they especially resent: keep the State out of your private life. If there is a…
…expired on race-conscious admissions and that it can no longer be tolerated. Justice Thomas expressed this view in his Grutter concurrence in 2003. He quoted Justice Harlan’s dissent in Plessy…
The Chronicle of Higher Education (CHE) remains steadfast in its support of social justice and liberal politics. In a typical op-ed entitled “The Right-Wing Attempt to Control Higher Ed: Demolishing…
…dysfunction. This answer was significantly more common than issues like global climate change, criminal justice reform, and illegal immigration. The data show that the plurality of both Democratic students (24…
…the U.S. population as a whole, but there are also more centrist students on campus than there are in the nation’s population. The social justice–laden narratives that are pervasive on…
…search for universal truth. It argues that the subjective identities of oppressed groups must be “made real” so that they can empower themselves and fight for social justice. This means…
…the Constitution and continue the American experiment. Consider the enthusiasm for “equity” as the new metric for social change: Equity as action. Social and economic justice and racial equity requires…
…if they do not repeat identity politics talking points, and they fear social isolation if they are attacked as enemies of “social justice.” Professors fear both students and administrators, especially…
…or even a formal complaint of harassment. Campus life now resembles walking on eggshells; paranoia meets the quest for social justice. These impressions are confirmed by what colleges themselves report….
…the social-justice theme: For example, calls to decolonize higher education and academic disciplines ask those of us in dominant groups not only to update and change our curriculum and syllabi…
…about “anti-racist pedagogy,” “whiteness,” and “decolonizing the classroom.” According to the “anti-racism” guide, university teaching must be oriented toward social justice, decolonization, and “teaching for Black lives.” UCSD’s EDI Office…
…minor in social justice that is geared toward graduating students for activist careers after saturating them in Critical Race Theory (CRT). Perhaps even worse than the teaching of DEI concepts…