…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…

…imposition and “the use of social engineering to solve real and imagined problems.” Although Krylov’s piece provides many excellent insights into how totalitarian regimes use ideology to restrain open inquiry,…

…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…

…runaway expense growth in “deans” and staff for every conceivable social and political indulgence. Are there any solutions? There are solutions, which begin with questioning accepted practices. This is the…

…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…

…bring from their lives the raw materials, or as philosopher Karl Popper termed it, the “vital substrate,” of individual and social experience and interests. This is a view of law…

…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…

…manage political or social disagreements in the future. When asked if they agree or disagree with the statement, “Our American way of life is disappearing so far that we may…

…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…

…environmental racism; climate justice; genomic justice; war technologies; medicine; public health; governance of science and technology; science policy; criminology, surveillance, and policing; border control; educational technologies; new media studies; critical…

…is a double-edged sword. Students are not saddled with the useless social justice courses that many now have to take at traditional institutions. But is it right for one’s curriculum…

…care more about appearing virtuous than they do about benefiting the victims they have both created and continue to harm with their well-intentioned, but destructive, campaign for social justice and…

…reading, math, and science, but a demonstration of virtue, of social justice. When schools teach the counterfactual lie that police every day murder innocent black and brown people, a lie…

…a college’s admissions rate low, and thereby maintain its elite status, is to entice students with struggles for the social justice most of them crave. Ergo, Hamilton invites to campus…

…today. No, the threat to academic freedom, according to the AAUP, is not the “social justice” political ideology that has become mandatory for all university employees today. Adherence to this…

…in implementing programs and institutional practices that serve the outcomes of social equity, inclusion, and justice, both internally and externally. America’s history soon will be rewritten to forward social justice…

…commitments to racial justice … [Universities] can consider a commitment to racial justice as part of a holistic admissions process.” [Related: “Moving Forward: Is Legacy Higher Ed a Lost Cause?”]…

…be placed on the scales of justice, individual versus intersectional identity, and the reality, or illusion, of social change. But these elements mean different things in each paradigm. See Figure…

…word “studies” is a reliable sign, if not an infallible one, that a department is devoted to activism rather than inquiry into truth. Other such departments include social justice, sustainability,…

…frivolous majors unable to repay crushing student loans. Or the many social justice programs whose purpose is only to provide iffy degrees to academically challenged youngsters who should not have…