What the Madison Confrontation Reveals
…permit the university to escape craven dishonesty and possible expensive litigation. My explanation is that returning to the old policy would eliminate the “achieve social justice” infrastructure and, to be…
Search Results for: Social justice
Harvard Pressures Freshmen to Sign a Moral Pledge
…intellectual pursuit and social justice” such as the law school does not encompass the “insensitivity” of making “hurtful” suggestions. Minow did not seek formal discipline but took care to note…
The New Divide over Productivity
…the usual conflicts over ideology (for example, leftist faculty vs. moderate or conservative others) or educational mission (for example, social justice vs. workforce training). It opens over the meaning of…
The Mess at Widener Law School
…that first surfaced in law schools during the 1980s, is quite different. In New Law School thinking, the law does not embody a rational system of justice—or even strivings toward…
The Unfortunate Case of Robert Klein Engler
…It’s just something you don’t say in a classroom, not coming from a professor, and especially not at a school like Roosevelt University, which is based on social justice.” That…
Less Academics, More Narcissism
…universities provide all of their students). But it was hardly out of character on a campus presided over by a chancellor fond of “social justice” rhetoric. And UC’s other campuses…
The 6th Circuit’s Astonishing Defense of Racial Preferences
…treatment under the law. This isn’t to say that courts should simply rubber-stamp popular votes on all social issues. The use of plebiscites to strip from minority groups a fundamental…
Bothersome News from Overseas
…all education programs individually assess whether prospective public schoolteachers had a disposition to “promote social justice.” Meanwhile, from Australia comes news of a survey claiming that one in six female…
Courageous Suggestions for Reforming Education Schools
…think rather than how to think.” Shudak’s article raises two additional important issues. First, he suggests that their diversity/social justice obsession actually encourages Education professors to seek out weaker students to enter…
More Ed School Follies
…measure the “disposition” of each and every prospective public school teacher to promote social justice. (The mandate didn’t apply to schools that don’t list promotion as social justice as a…
Quarantining the PC Pathology
…social justice. And the assignment may be beyond their intellectual abilities. Why should tenured radicals surrender life-time employment to prevent professorial abuses? In a nutshell, our side insists on painful…
More Ed-School “Social Justice” Studies
…ethnic background. And the “social justice” championed by graduate students such as Mira clearly would not include figures who define “social justice” as upholding Biblical fundamentalism by denying gay and…
Writing Teachers: Still Crazy After All These Years
…determining justice. The final event, “Prison Writing: Pedagogy, Representation, Research, and Action,” presented a consensus about justice, though: prisoners should be made aware of the injustices committed against them by…
A Desperate Defense of Affirmative Action
…for preferences is thus seen as restorative justice for victims of past racial oppression who currently suffer from its effects in the form of poverty, joblessness, and educational deprivation. By…
What Characterizes the Modern Totalitarian, Corporatized University?
…the collegiate lexicon—civil liberties appeared to take a backseat. It did not occur to administrators that this form of social engineering on campus—dictating what students may and may not say—rarely,…
No Longer Academic: When Activism Is on the Curriculum
…in the job market, especially for candidates applying for the positions like that of Professor of Social Justice and Sustainability at Chatham University. And consider Verderame’s course of study: “19th-century British literature…
A Double Shock to Liberal Professors
Social psychology has long been a haven for left-wing scholars. Jonathan Haidt, one of the best known and most respected young social psychologists, has heaved two bombshells at his field–one…
Reading Kant and Debating White Nationalists
…studying Aristotle’s rhetoric. As they are denied the training in reasoned argument, students are emotionally bullied into embracing “social justice,” “global citizenship,” and “sustainability.” What is the real world result?…
The New Yorker Takes on the US News College Rankings
…that “As answers go, that’s up there with the parental ‘Because I said so.’” Promising Impossible Precision In some respects, the Guide’s conclusion remind me of Supreme Court Justice Potter…
Judge Garza’s Insights
…educate students in the physical sciences, engineering, social sciences, business and the humanities, among other academic disciplines.” In a post from last year, I noted how Justices Kennedy and Stevens…
The Fifth Circuit Broadens Racial Preferences
…the court, replaced by a stalwart conservative, Justice Samuel Alito, an appointee of President George W. Bush, and the perpetual high court swing vote, Justice Anthony Kennedy, was one of…
No Labels = No Thinking, and No Fighting for Principles Either
…the new courtroom as a “utopian metaphor for classroom relations,” where the rules of justice have been changed by the “Amazons.” This “imaginary court,” Desmet writes, “has no judge; there…
Let’s Change the Student Loan Program
…a race between education and catastrophe.” Wells was talking about education as a force for world peace and social betterment. He would probably feel vindicated by the interest of American…
The Big, Bad, “Right Wing”
…“Cassandras,” and characterized by “more than a whiff of elitism”—also worried about the academy substituting its traditional pursuit of the truth in favor of embracing a commitment to pursue “social…
No Diversity Award for Helen Thomas
…positive social change.” Each prize, Grinnell announced, “carries an award of $100,000, half to the winning individual and half to an organization committed to the winner’s area of social justice.”…
Social Justice Art and Liberal Democracy
…vision of art education is political, not aesthetic and individual. The “social justice” art movement points us decidedly in the direction of Rousseau than James Madison. Just what is social…
The Propaganda in Our Ed Schools
…World: Math Education and Social Justice.” At thirty-two workshops on Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus and in half a dozen city public schools, math teachers demonstrated classroom lessons to help…
Academic Conferences: the Oppressed Versus the Oppressors
…held Nov. 3-6 in Las Vegas. One of the keynote speakers will be Augustine Romero, director of a “student equity” and “social justice” project in the Tucson, AZ, public school…
The Defense of Radical Teaching
For a few years now, distinguished literary scholar Gerald Graff has been disputing with “social justice” professors and “radical teachers” over the proper use of authority in the classroom. While…
More Wreckage from Ginsburg’s ‘Neutral’ Ruling
…anti-bias policies in ways that interfered with religious belief. (Writing for the high court majority, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that the state-supported Hastings College of Law’s policy of requiring…