Social Justice Art and Liberal Democracy
…social justice art education. The former can be a form of individual choice and commitment, whereas the latter cavorts with indoctrination, standing in stark contrast to the respect for individual…
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Student Apathy – Public Enemy Number One
Seeing Academic Repression Everywhere
…no meaningful sense of the right of students to avoid indoctrination, and virtually no sense of the acceptable limits of political proselytizing in the classroom and the professoriate. No, references…
Why the Great Books Are the Answer
…Tradition is not indoctrination but where past meets present. It is, writes Mark Van Doren, “the medium through which we understand one another when communication takes place. It is the…
Recapturing the University: The Hybrid Alternative
…a position to argue, only adds to this built in indoctrination advantage. In graduate education the propagating-the-faith advantage multiplies, since most Ph.D. students will become tomorrow’s teachers. Ideological domination can…
How Is Yiddish Doing?
…to use the language as an instrument of indoctrination. Some Jewish leaders regretted the low esteem in which Yiddish was held by even its speakers. The public intellectual Chaim Zhitlowsky…
The AAUP Strikes Out . . . Again
…Blits (who opposed the university’s infamous residence hall indoctrination program) provided an example of an area in which all friends of academic freedom should agree—that increasing the power of administrators,…
The Failure Of For-Profit Schools
…for private investors to enter the market and seek economic rent.” For-profit schools can offer genuine value: classes tailored to students’ work schedules, merciful freedom from the political-correctness indoctrination that…
Further Thoughts on the Rotenberg Letter
…isn’t education. It’s indoctrination. It warns, “You better ‘appreciate’ these victimizations, or you won’t pass.” So, when Rotenberg devotes the rest of the letter to defending the academic freedom of…
The Minnesota Case—An Institutional Diagnosis
…disregard of claims of indoctrination made by columnist Katherine Kersten in the Star-Tribune. Quam’s defense is so feeble and misleading, in fact, that it deserves more scrutiny. Just compare her…
A Dean Who Can’t Read?
…play out in classrooms and affect student achievement. Her position is that discussion of these issues equates to indoctrination.” I have read Kersten’s column; I encourage you to do so…
The Slippery Use Of ”Social Justice”
…if unspecfied [sic] social and political ideological agenda of indoctrination.” The statement was doubly deceptive. No, NCATE didn’t have “a ‘social justice’ requirement”: it had a requirement that all Education…
The Cost of Raising Boys Like Girls
…for male students in particular and students of both sexes in general who would rather not sign up for thinly veiled indoctrination sessions. In short, the latest campus-demography projections from…
What African-American Studies Could Be
…racism, still is, and that this requires radicalism as a politics of choice is not education. It is indoctrination. It proposes a single minority view as sense incarnate. This is…
“Poverty Studies” – Because There Are Never Enough “Studies”
…examines “how family life is linked to…societal factors like race, class, and gender.” At Notre Dame it’s not Poverty 101 but Indoctrination 101. The only redeeming value in all this…
Is The Core Curriculum Really Coming Back?
…questions like sustainability or the global AIDS pandemic, and advanced-level integrative requirements.” Leaving aside the question of whether a course on “sustainability” amounts to ideological indoctrination rather than substantive learning,…
On The Right In The Land Of The Tenured Left
…needed to be reminded of their responsibilities to put things right. After all, how could serious scholars permit higher education to descend into speech codes, racial quotas, and political indoctrination?…
Video of the Worst College Program Ever
Don’t miss this video on the notorious freshman indoctrination program at the University of Delaware. It was produced by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and is in…
White and Non-White Freshmen to Spend Time Together!
…is rising against segregating freshmen along racial lines. That’s a good sign. A better sign would be a move away from freshman race-and-gender indoctrination and just have a normal orientation….
The Latest PC Fad – “Disability Studies”
…an identity, a culture, and a political, social, and literary construct.” A graduate course at the University of Northern Arizona is even more straightforward about its goal of indoctrination; it…
Teaching Twittering?
…a Pedagogy of Ebonics for Composition Classrooms”), where it’s deemed appropriate to turn writing classes into indoctrination sessions in feminism, anti-colonialism, and “sustainability,” where “survivance” is a word and there’s…
Suspended For Refusing To Take Sexual Harassment Classes
…words like “demeaning, oppressive, politically driven, dictatorial, indoctrination”. They were characterized by phrases such as “unctuous twaddle”, “sanctimonious halfwits”, “loutish intimidation”, and “trampling over human dignity”. Was I being too…
I Was Suspended Because I Wouldn’t Take Sexual Harassment Training
…The comments were rich with words like “demeaning, oppressive, politically driven, dictatorial, indoctrination”. They were characterized by phrases such as “unctuous twaddle”, “sanctimonious halfwits”, “loutish intimidation”, and “trampling over human…
Ideology In The Classroom
Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in American Universities, published in September to little fanfare, has caught on amid its intended audience: those who believe indoctrination of students is a figment…
Delaware Indoctrination: You Haven’t Heard It All
…rank system of indoctrination (now happily suspended) the FIRE report is a comprehensive and sobering account of the roots and influences of the Delaware system. Most importantly, and disquietingly, the…
Can We Change The Campus Culture?
…the culture. It’s about time they undertake the vital obligation of restoring a true academic culture – a culture that values teaching and learning, rather than political indoctrination – to…
Freshmen Orientation: Is It Over Yet?
…of entertainment, low-key indoctrination, and a level of parental involvement that would have been unthinkable a generation or two ago, when there was no such thing as an orientation event…
“Intergroup Dialogue” – The Latest Indoctrination Catchphrase
Aggressive diversity programs on campus now come with harmless-sounding names such as “sustainability,” “social justice” and the need for good “dispositions.” The latest in this series is “intergroup dialogue.” Who…
Indoctrination In Writing Class
…opinion’ on every issue.” Presumably many professors adopt the book because it reflects their values and legitimates “transformative teaching” (indoctrination). Tom Kerr, writing in 2001 as an assistant professor at…
Mandatory Summer Reading (Yawn)
…up—and they are also reasonably impervious to attempts by administrators to use freshman books as platforms for political indoctrination. Nickel and Dimed is no longer quite the piece of agitprop…