The Education of Rachel Corrie
…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…
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UCLA Offers Low-Cost College for Leftist Illegals
…Unless your political views are sufficiently progressive, you won’t be admitted to NDU. According to NDU’s website, all applicants must “demonstrate a commitment to immigrant/labor rights and social justice.” Yes,…
Washington Tries to Intimidate the Schools
…Justice departments have launched a campaign of intimidation and coercion against school systems scattered around the country. The approach often turns Orwellian. When Federal officials investigate a school, Macdonald finds,…
The Affirmative Action Zealots Have Won: Time to Surrender
…that justify admitting the academically marginal, rest assured, the village will be recruited, trained and then celebrated as champions of social justice. Our side just lacks the stomach to outlast…
What’s Yale Doing in Singapore?
…enforces restrictions on free speech and assembly, laws that criminalize homosexual conduct, and severe penalties for those who run afoul of its criminal-justice system. Back in New Haven, however, Yale…
The Hunt for Conservative and Liberal Genes
Based on “new findings involving behavioral genetics,” reports the Chronicle of Higher Education, a growing clump of contemporary social…
An Unusual Brief Could Tip the Fisher Case
…Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but their carefully reasoned brief provides grounds for Justice Kennedy or even Justice Breyer to join the Court’s conservatives and scale back the virtually open-ended use of…
How Academics Concocted a New ‘Middle Class’
…the 1960s, university-based social science research began altering this understanding. To condense a long story, empirically-based quantitative social science research needed a simple, clear-cut measure of “middle class,” and utilizing…
Harvard’s PR Machine and the Cherokees
…of the students, or more useful information about what is really happening, and what work of significant academic and social importance is being done, at the various schools within the…
Are Black Studies a Great Failure?
…mission of the discipline. (Many instead enter black studies as paternalists, seeking knowledge for knowledge’s sake, or to receive social or economic capital.) Nor is it a positive development at…
UCLA: Still Obsessed with Diversity
…and largely imaginary spirit of social unity. The diversiphile version of that injunction is, “Celebrate Diversity!” The brand new, freshly conceived C&C version seems to be “Celebrate Community!” More Euphemisms,…
The Next Toxic Ism: Realism
…return to the first half of the 19th century to show how utopian writings (especially Marxism) promoted social change. “Social justice,” they insist, “begins with a Utopian blueprint,” not “facts.”…
The “Mismatch Thesis,” Eye-Opening Research, and the Fisher Case
…in economics, engineering and the natural sciences, 54 percent of black men and 51 percent of black women ended up switching to the humanities or another social science. The campus…
The Radicalization of the University of California
…“When individual faculty members and sometimes even whole departments decide that their aim is to advance social justice as they understand it rather than to teach the subject that they…
Justice Kennedy Should Read Richard Brodhead
…Breyer) remain from Grutter; based on her opinion in Ricci, Justice Sotomayor is much more committed to preferences than was Justice Souter, and Justice Kagan has shown little indication that…
The ‘Inequality’ Movement–A Campus Product
…“Human Rights and Social Justice,” “Disability and Employment Policy,” and “The White Image in the Black Mind.” Other disparities that undergo scrutiny include the high proportion of minorities in jail…
Hateless Hate Crime at Rutgers?
…judges and perhaps the Supreme Court will ultimately have to decide whether Ravi used social media as many immature 18-year-old pranksters would, not like a hostile homophobe, or whether New…
Unionize All Those Adjuncts?–Let’s Not
…army of adjuncts who will teach all the remedial and watered-down introductory courses. Yet again, achieving “social justice” means more middle class jobs, in this case would-be university professors. Can…
Andrew Breitbart: Tweeting Evangelist For Conservatism
…He hated that Facebook limited him to just 5,000 friends, because, well, Andrew knew no limits. He seemed to live off the energy of social interactions, especially those online and…
A Funny Book about Worthless Degrees
…Clarey. (Puppetry falls into a category of degrees that Clarey describes as “New Age Crap,” bearing such titles as “Peace Studies,” “Social Justice,” “Holistic Medicine,” and “Master’s in Outdoor Recreation.”…
What Will the Court Do About Affirmative Action?
…have been absent the preferences. Read the briefs for the excruciating chapter and verse. Justice O’Connor held in Grutter that the “educational benefits” that flow from “diversity” constitute a “compelling…
How To Bridge the Educational Divide
…to higher education and can advance economically, culturally, even socially? Adam Smith wouldn’t have thought so. He understood that the kind of cultural divide that Murray writes about is artificial….
A Law Professor Takes on the Victimhood Industry
…publicity to save wrongly-accused professors from being convicted and fired. They put to good use Justice Brandeis’s observation that publicity cures social evils, just as sunlight is a disinfectant. But…
More Ideological Discrimination at the University of Iowa?
…humanities and many social science departments around the country. A recent 8th Circuit decision, however, gives some hope that some sense of checks and balances might come to exist in…
Emmer and Keeton–Two Terrible Decisions on Academic Freedom
…schoolteachers for their “disposition to promote social justice.” The implication of Keeton, then, is that (at least in the 11th Circuit) the free speech rights of Education students are now…
The NEA: Union “Activists” as Diversicrats
…those of us who strike to be attentive to teaching and/or to social justice issues.” There’s little reason to believe, of course, that Armstrong, whose research explores such politically correct…
The Embarrassment of “OccupyCUNY”
…the Times.) One signatory wanted the “OccupyCUNY” folks to join forces with another key battle in the crusade for social justice and meaningful change—critics of the law requiring Utahans to “buy…
Brown Shows How to Skew a Case and Skewer the Accused
…as a social worker. He served as the first president of Brown’s NAACP chapter, but in an article last year, confessed that “whenever I encountered someone with black skin, I…
College Budget Cuts: How Course Corrections Can Undermine Students
…predict how English majors end up producing voice identification technology, or how anthropologists studying child abuse can relate such abuse to kinship patterns. Informing social workers and the criminal justice…
In Defense of Bad Teaching
…it can be used to achieve social justice. Good teaching will be measured by questionnaires distributed to students who seldom know what they are supposed to learn, and instructors are…