The University Of Chicago – What’s Been Lost
…it is hard to find much of the Great Conversation in “Mind.” “Social Science Inquiry,” still more generally, examines social science epistemologies and research methods. The social sciences core thus…
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Should J-Students Work For The Defense?
…that paints convicted criminals as victims of social injustice. The Brandeis Innocence Project, for example states on its website that America faces an “ethical crisis” of “200,000 innocent people” (10…
Arne Duncan’s Balancing Act
…of Education Arne Duncan visited Columbia Teachers College—seemingly the only institution still utilizing the since-abandoned NCATE policy of assessing each prospective teacher’s disposition to promote social justice. Duncan was blunt:…
Too Many Talented Students?
…fail their oft-announced mission of “social justice” and equality. Perhaps we need every top university to institute an exchange program. What about something like this: every student at H-Y-P-etc. has…
Celebrating FIRE
…criticizing the Brooklyn Education Department’s “social justice” criteria. In response, I received a letter (addressed to “Robert Johnson, Ph.D.”) from 30 professors in the department, demanding—in the name of “academic…
The Slippery Use Of ”Social Justice”
…scowled the organization’s then-president, “that NCATE has a ‘social justice’ requirement. It does not. NCATE ‘requirements’ are spelled out in the Standards themselves where the phrase ‘social justice’ does not…
The Problem With Student Engagement
…relevant to political concerns (e.g., black study and women’s study programs, social justice programs, peace study programs, etc.), and launched programs promoting internships and the support of student activist groups…
What African-American Studies Could Be
…should be part of a liberal arts education to learn that racism is more than face-to-face abuse, and that social inequality is endemic to American society. However, too often the…
Here Comes “Cultural Competence”
…subject of a great many conferences and articles. One article in the journal Transitions, argues that since social inequality adversely affects health, health workers must achieve “socially just cultural competence”…
Are Ed Schools Failing?
…it placed in its accreditation standards in 2002 that allowed education schools to consider their students’ commitment to “social justice” in assessing whether those students had appropriate “professional dispositions” to…
Standpoint Theory Arrives At The Court
…can thus claim. While the “production of knowledge” can legitimately be analyzed in terms of its social contexts and political influences, feminists in the academy have too often gone beyond…
War Over A Trojan Horse
…act like Madame Roland before the guillotine: “Oh, social justice, what crimes are committed in thy name.” Social justice activism has not only infiltrated college campuses, it pervades academic culture…
Cornell ’69 And What It Did
…events, Cornell ’69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University. To some the drama represented a triumph of social justice, paving the way for a new model of the…
Why I Left Academia
…This money comes from my dues and promotes “social justice,” a concept conservatives reject. APSA’s lack of conservatives on the board explains this liberal activist policy. There are more examples,…
Campus Madness, Part 346
…the email.” The results of the hearing are expected next week. – The University of Ottawa “social justice agency” refused to fund a speech sponsored by the campus Hillel Society…
More Diversity Nonsense
…go to a birthday party for “faith-based reasons,” the snoop-facilitator will step in and suggest the use of pro-diversity language that reflects a proper commitment to social justice. Daniel Hayward,…
Obama And The Campus Left
…promote social justice.” Alas, positions taken by John McCain’s campaign frequently, if unintentionally, undermined the higher education arguments offered by conservative over the past two decades. The clearest example, of…
Ideology In The Classroom
…the agenda of the cultural left, including gay marriage, radical environmentalism and redistribution of wealth. At Washington State, an entrenched educrat frankly admitted that Justice Antonin Scalia would probably flunk…
Downgrading SATs Makes Sense
…test could ever be. Time and again, the various defenses of the SAT over years have failed to adequately address the vast social scientific literature that decimates the case for…
College Green? Bah Humbug.
…line of ecological integrity, economic prosperity and social equity.” Michigan State promotes “a sustainable community that provides for the social and economic needs of its current and future members without…
What Is It About The Liberal Arts?
…and 1700 undergraduates, claim the students, needs to do more to promote diversity, although the campus already boasts a Diversity and Social Justice Project, Social Justice Initiative, Associate Dean for…
The Long Shadow Of The Sixties
…the roster on “problems of racism, poverty and justice,” Social Analysis 1391X. It was to be taught by four social science professors leading small groups and by one visitor delivering…
Want to Teach Here? Then Tell Us Your Politics
…ways to justify their existence and that of their institutions. Enter the language of “community engagement,” “outreach,” “social justice,” and “equity” (to name just a few of the terms now…
A Guide To Campus Shakedowns
…police shaking down after-hours bars, occasional reminders that “payment is due” are necessary. Deans can go complacent amidst tranquility and may forget “to renew” their commitment to social justice by…
Sociology: Too Popular For Its Professors
…own separate departments of criminology and criminal justice. The task-force report included other statistics that conventional sociologists probably find distressing. “Between 2001 and 2006, criminal justice overtook sociology in the…
A Painless Path To A College Degree
Operators of a diploma mill, convicted of selling 10,000 bogus academic degrees out of Spokane, Washington, are on their way to prison. The Justice department declined to release the names…
“Intergroup Dialogue” – The Latest Indoctrination Catchphrase
Aggressive diversity programs on campus now come with harmless-sounding names such as “sustainability,” “social justice” and the need for good “dispositions.” The latest in this series is “intergroup dialogue.” Who…
Your Next Job?
…social sciences with innovative undergraduate and graduate curricula focused on social justice. The undergraduate program combines analytical course work and full time field study with social justice movement and advocacy…
Is There An Asian Ceiling?
…general population), though they will almost always deny publicly that they have such numerical target goals in mind. What motivates them is a combination of “social justice” for previously disadvantaged…
Should Universities Be In The Social Justice Business?
Brandeis University is now officially committed to social justice. The university’s “Diversity Statement” says that the university considers social justice central to its mission. Is this controversial? Absolutely, says George…