What Damore’s Memo Taught Google
…higher education. That’s where it grows.” Training scientists and engineers to focus on the analysis of data rather than social justice and implicit bias is clearly problematic. Gender disparities in…
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Yes, Campus Indoctrination is Real
…the abstract, but that figure might also signal the degree to which activism aimed at advancing progressive ideas of “social justice” had become a baseline social attitude for late Millennials…
Here’s Why Public Colleges Could Face Defunding
…prudence, practical wisdom, which called for pursuing moral outcomes by shrewdly assessing concrete situations. Though he sympathizes with the campus activists’ social justice goals, deBoer also criticizes the willful blindness…
An Anti-Koch Rampage at Wake Forest
…Wake Forest, the left invests heavily in spreading preconceived ideas. In classes, many faculty members love to impart their notions about social justice, institutional racism, the evils of capitalism, and…
Here’s What Happens as Campuses Turn Further Left
…of the most influential people in academic social psychology do so suggests that this ideology is entrenched in their field. ‘Social Justice’ an Entrenched Ideology And there are signs that…
How Schools Create Social Justice Warriors
…emphasizes “empathy and wildlife preservation.” The trend is long overdue, say people interviewed in the story. “For every book about social justice, I’d like to see 50 published,” says the…
Napolitano and the Decline of Berkeley
…the form of affirmative action admissions—a policy designed to legitimate the university on the grounds of “social justice.” Elite universities continue some meritocratic recruitment; if they didn’t they couldn’t maintain…
Student Grievance: Righting Imaginary Wrongs
…creates a new social reality. But no one calls this the social construction of grievance. No; it’s simply called reality, and presented as if it were a fact of contemporary…
When Universities Go Out of Control
…Saturday night in 1910 to vindicate the virtue of Southern Womanhood? What’s at work in the campus eruptions is not a virtue or social justice; it has nothing whatever to…
Angry Students Turn on Another Progressive Prof at Evergreen
…protect their cohort of mischievous social justice warriors. Those mobs threatening conservative speakers and insufficiently enthusiastic progressive professors are a badge of honor for the college presidents whose greatest fear…
Re-Educating Whites on Campus
…“facilitated” by, SJSU Sociology Professor Susan Murray, whose professional preoccupation seems to be a social science version of racial navel-gazing. From her web page: White culture, white racism, and white…
Universities, Free Speech and the Rise of the Spit-Viper Left
…important to realize just how far this newly emergent Left has strayed from the American Left of the immediate post-WWII decades. During the Cold War, it was often Social Democrats…
Professor Laura Kipnis–She Faced Title IX Charges for Writing an Essay
…had, they’re very attentive to issues about minorities, about discrimination, about social justice, about using language that would make minority people feel stigmatized—any kind of minorities. I remember a discussion…
DePaul—The Worst University for Free Speech?
…such criticism was muted, and for many who are still around, it is pointed to as a great step forward in the school’s mission of promoting inclusivity and social justice….
Racial Preferences–Time to End Them?
…usually measured by income or assets—but disadvantage can be social, not just economic; they are not always congruent and social disadvantage is harder to define and measure. Related: 25 Years…
The Real Defense of Charles Murray: Truth Not Free Speech
…noisy social justice warriors can briefly summarize the core argument of Coming Apart? Here’s a trick question: what does Coming Apart say about African Americans? (Answer: nothing, it’s only about…
Crime But No Punishment at Middlebury?
…plasticity; the social origins of inequality; and the possibility of engineering our institutions to create complete social justice. *Murray’s 1994 argument that intelligence is mostly fixed at birth runs afoul…
The Bubble at Middlebury
…to admit that ours is not so much a middle-class country any longer. Murray observes that our meritocracy based on productivity typically talks Sixties liberationism and social justice and might…
Can Sociology be Saved?
…to President Donald Trump. The increases in sociology undergraduate majors has more to do with student fascination with criminology and criminal justice concentrations within the sociology major than it does…
Punishing College Sports Teams
NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues we are witnessing an internal war over what in fact is a university’s core sacred value: is it truth? Or social justice? If it…
The Campus Left Discovers Free Speech
…it is a social justice crusade, interested as much in promoting a left-wing, globalist counter-culture as it is discovering truth through inquiry. That this model might be imperiled by such…
Enough of the College-for-Everyone Agenda
…college campuses that young people become imbued with such progressive notions as social justice, white privilege, sustainability, intersectionality, anti-capitalism, institutional racism, microaggressions and more. On many campuses, intellectually weaker students…
Will Georgetown Remain a Catholic University?
…encouraged undergraduate students to help expand abortion rights as a social justice issue. Collaborating with the dissident Catholics for Choice, Law Students for Reproductive Justice, a student law school organization…
The Dangerous Rise of ‘The New Civics’
…political advocacy. Civic engagement, global learning, and so on, all are forms of service-learning. Social Justice, Progressive Policies Justified by the Putative Sufferings of Designated Victim Groups: Social justice aims…
Add Babson to the List Of Campus Hoaxes
…colleges — including Babson and Wellesley — are committed. Quickly, the word spread via social media that the pair had engaged in racist and homophobic slurs, including a targeted visit…
How a University Moved from Diversity to Indoctrination
…of Buzzwords Like Dispositions and Social Justice The university may have a social mission to enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion, even in the name of “social justice” (which Jonah Goldberg…
Do We need a Watchlist for Ideological Professors?
…social psychologist at the University of Central Oklahoma who wrote on the Psychology Today site that the HXA statement “is an example of being out of touch with conservative students…
How Colleges and Universities Foster “Hate Culture”
…Israel’s actions in Palestine. Fostering strong social identities is a recipe for group conflict. Colleges prime social identities in a number of ways. For example, we strengthen social identity when…
Did ‘Deplorable’ Prof Unmask Extreme PC Culture at NYU?
…job, thanks to the humorless, Social Justice Warrior-brand of campus culture run amok and a misunderstanding about a Twitter account. Enmeshed in a conspiracy — thinly disguised as sympathy —…
What the Feds Have Done to Colleges and Schools
The Obama administration has repeatedly violated civil liberties on campus. The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has been the chief culprit, but the Department of Justice has played…