Legacy Preferences Under Fire Again
…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…
…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,…
…in Texas Alas, a five-justice majority of the Supreme Court ruled in the 1978 Bakke case that Title VI doesn’t mean what it says – that Congress didn’t intend to…
…of core knowledge does them a disservice. Prep schools should seize their chance to preserve humanistic learning, rather than ape the superficial social justice posturing of the academy. …
As a staffer with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in the early 1970’s, would-be Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. penned his historic, if awkwardly titled, memo, “Attack on…
…students would be tearing each other apart with their crude and ignorant biases. The Diversity Committee of Phillips Exeter, Andover’s even older sibling in New Hampshire, “promote[s] social justice and…
…theory, social justice, anti-capitalism, and class envy against the rich by public education…. The high school textbook used by my granddaughter in 2008, United States History: In the Course of…
…Tamiment Institute document “the history of progressive politics” and to focus “on the relationship between the Cold War abroad and the struggle for progressive social change at home.” The very…
…On a panel entitled “Using Oral History for Social Justice Activism,” scholars look at their partnership with “activists” seeking to undermine “the dominant historical narrative.” Yet the “narrative” that these…
…of college students are capable of engaging the kinds of big questions–questions of truth, responsibility, justice, beauty, among others–that were once assumed to be at the center of college education.” …
…at the highly competitive UCLA possess. Furthermore, National Dream U., unlike UCLA, had an ideological litmus test for admission: “a commitment to immigrant/labor rights and social justice.” The Huffington Post…
…Applicants, according to the college, “must show how they will use their studies to promote human rights and social justice through community activism and/or political advocacy.” What academic training does…