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,…
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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…
“Waste Studies”, Anyone?
…social justice,” as the website of the National Women’s Studies Association declares. That association cultivates a laundry list of overtly political issues, ranging from defending Hillary Clinton against supposedly unfair…
What Does ‘Sustainability’ Have to Do With Student Loans?
…as an encompassing concept. It includes science, economics, and the social structure. And for many in the movement, the focus on social order is the basis for far-reaching attempts to…
Unsustainable? A Defense Of ResLife At Delaware
…social justice and civic engagement, and these are political values (albeit not very radical ones). I think these are good political values, and conservatives disagree, but that doesn’t matter. If…
Columbia’s 68 Celebration: Only Radicals Need Apply
…War and the drive for social justice, Niebuhr called for a mentality that could face good and evil in oneself and in others, and tragedy and hope, without caving into…
The Worst Campus Codeword
…often produce and perpetuate social inequalities. Even in its mildest form “social justice” puts schools in a position of judging the acceptability of students’ political and social opinions. Now the…
University Of The Absurd
…satisfies the University of California writing requirement. The course is a study in the social construction of individual identity and it surveys a range of social differences and stratifications that…
Soft Bias Against The Right
…promote social justice issues to their students. Why do so, when “Most social justice efforts probably have at least the implicit notion that making the world a fairer and more…
A Department Of Hillbilly Studies?
…“voices” of the forcefully silenced. Schools of Social Work and Education now require taking vows to advance “social and economic justice” in order to graduate. Hard-head Business Schools are hardly…
The Aristocratic Reign Of Group Preferences
…sake of ‘diversity’ are actually motivated” by a “commitment to social justice,” and that, “They would rightly defend affirmative action even if social science demonstrated uncontrovertibly that diversity (or its…
Angela Davis, Civil Rights Pioneer?
…encomiums to social justice and other left causes (from speakers such as Mary Frances Berry and Nikki Giovanni), but it’s still something of a surprise to find just how many…
I Pray That Sacrilege Is Protected
…of extensive investigations involving the top ten universities and three student case studies. The openly expressed and privately enforced requirements of “social justice” highlight the institutional oppression of thought enforced…
A Donkey At Berkeley
…Western, as is most manifest in its steadfast denial of the importance of ancestry, and its emphasis instead on universal values such as individual freedom and social justice. To the…
Educating for Citizenship at Brown University: An Essay In Honor Of Allan Bloom
…of social construction they preferred: decision making within social groupings should be collective decision making. This idea runs back to Aristotle’s state-centric idea that citizenship is a matter of “ruling…
Ed School Politics – Still A Problem
…that would-be teachers must have. “Social justice” is the most controversial of the dispositions sought. In its benign sense, “social justice” means a sense of fairness, honesty and a belief…
Do Rich White Kids Win With Affirmative Action?
…the best students who apply. That won’t satisfy the urge to promote their vision of “social justice.” Affirmative action doesn’t really accomplish anything, but it’s all they have and they…