Ending Racial Preferences
…(SFFA) (600 U.S.181 (2023). Over the objection of the Biden-Harris Department of Justice, the Court found Harvard University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill violated the Equal Protection Clause…
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Back to Stick Figures: How Woke Warriors Destroyed Anthropology
…Ethical Treatment of Human Remains has ruled that images and digital materials must be treated as parts of bodies—and, thus, not published in any public spaces, including on social media….
Federal Funding Shouldn’t Be Going to Woke University Programs
…Social Justice offices. Its social justice priorities are reflected in the courses advertised to students: “The Political Economy of Racism: Erasures, Slavery, Eviction, and Fables of Whiteness;” “Evolutionary Biology of…
Libraries: The Quiet DEI Indoctrinators
…university librarians, the American Library Association (ALA) proclaims its support for DEI thusly: Libraries are essential to democracy and self-government, to personal development and social progress, and to every individual’s…
Let’s Hear It From the Faculty
…altar of “social justice” and “equity.” Fortunately, we don’t just have anecdotes, which are powerful means of galvanizing passions but not well-suited, on their own, to inform our judgment and…
The Naval Academy Should Jettison Race-Conscious Admissions Policies
…But let’s consider the following: Almost 75 years ago, the man who eventually would become our Nation’s first Black Supreme Court justice, filed a legal brief with the United States…
Academic Accommodations Undermine Workplace Preparedness
Many, if not most, students attend university intending to enter the workforce upon graduation. But today’s climate of student-centered policies and social justice rhetoric often does the opposite. While much…
A Buckeye Collegiate Revolution: Higher Education Reform Bill Likely to Pass Senate
…our country. Each institute is insulated from control by woke-oriented progressives pushing leftist social justice, anti-capitalist, or racist agendas. Public confidence in our universities is at a low ebb, but…
Academic Freedom and Self-Censorship
…appear disadvantaged in these studies, but these studies are systematically mono-parametric and do not take into account factors other than ethnicity: economic and social level, education, etc. Along the same…
DEI Is Antisemitic
…do wrong? Why are they, in the DEI jargon, “white adjacent”? The answer is that they are a successful minority. This is offensive because the “social justice DEI” explanation for…
DEI Statements Erode the Diversity That Matters. Qualified Candidates Can’t Get Jobs.
…of qualified applicants who do not unequivocally conform to the prescribed approach to social justice. However well-intentioned, the statements function more as what one writer described as “compelled speech” than…
Mandating Meritocracy Is the Only Path to Sustainably Make Universities Great Again
…determined from social media, letters of recommendation, and/or the classic grapevine. By baked-in ideologies, I am referring to jobs with inherently progressive agendas. Professorships in “sustainability,” “social justice,” or “a…
A Crisis Averted is Not a Crisis Solved: DEI Reforms Face Resistance
…of American Studies, Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies as well as its American Studies and Social Justice majors—hurray! UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which houses these majors, explains…
Laurier’s Administrators Block Debate on Indigenous Ways of Knowing
…their universities focus on the search for truth, not on social justice and decolonization. Image of Laurier’s landmark sign, at the corner of King Street North and Bricker Avenue by…
Sedition U: Marxist Ideology Threatens American Democracy from Campus to Culture
…any political claim or action short of large-scale physical violence. They duplicitously claim they are just “progressives” pursuing “social justice.” Herbert Marcuse’s 1965 goal of “repressive tolerance,” suppressing non-Marxian perspectives…
K-12 Teachers Go Through the University Ideology Pipeline
…“the visual arts and arts integrated learning drive inquiry and investigation into history, social science, and social justice issues.” Nowhere in this course is it discussed exactly what students should…
Higher Ed Must Embrace Doubt
…far-left views on questions relating to class, identity, and social justice. And, in such a climate, the culture of open inquiry that should serve as an integral part of a…
Universities and the Battle for Ideological Supremacy
…of the Fox anchors has just been nominated Secretary of Defense. The party of the coasts is committed to social justice, the mainstream media, and international institutions. They believe that…
Academia’s Old Order is Crumbling
…truth-seeking, and virtuous citizenship—aligning education with workforce needs is, at the very least, pragmatic, if not overdue. Predictably, so-called elite institutions remain blind to their shortcomings, doubling down on social…
Does Social Justice Drive Tuition?
…Why ask the students who do pay full or partial tuition to subsidize the others? The colleges present this as a matter of “social justice,” and perhaps that is the…
What Can We Do About Our Corrupted Universities?
…superseded during the first decades of the 21st century by a new vision, which was labeled “social justice.” Setting aside the quest for truth through evidence and argument, “social justice”…
A Lament for Our Noble Culture
…that, in diametric contrast to revolutionary idealism, “Christian realism emphasizes political order and justice.” Patterson is quite correct: social order, social justice, fairness, and distributive justice through the rule of…
Is Your Therapist Compromised?
…multicultural counseling, social justice, and advocacy 2. the influence of heritage, cultural identities, attitudes, values, beliefs, understandings, within-group differences, and acculturative experiences on individuals’ worldviews 3. the influence of heritage,…
Division, Extremism, and Ideology at the National Science Foundation
…ten percent (3,483) of grants awarded during this interval went to projects that the committee classified as focusing on status, social justice, gender, race, environmental justice, or a combination of…
Implicit Bias Training Hijacks Justice
…small samples—thereby become exported from the world of scientific and social scientific research to the world of law and justice. Implicit bias would be the means by which our courts…
Cancel Culture Enables Anti-Semitism to Spread at Sarah Lawrence
…was. President Cristle Collins Judd, who transitioned to the College from an administrative position at the Mellon Foundation—an organization that shifted its focus in 2020 to prioritizing social justice in…
Don’t Let Colleges Keep Ducking Accountability on Student Loans
…and student counseling—and three low-performing bachelor’s degrees—psychology, human development, and criminal justice. Those resources could then be used to expand Penn State’s successful nursing, engineering, and MBA programs, all of…
Race-Based Hiring Programs Persist at Public Universities. Here’s How.
…“tend to have a greater sense” of “the human, social, and communal nature of teaching and learning.” That is why the department was applying to UIC’s Bridge to Faculty program,…
Feminism’s Greatest Achievement
…as a consideration and transforming universities and research funding agencies from Enlightenment inquiries into truth, into purveyors of “social justice” ideology through social activism. Now ads for professors and administrators…
Sarah Lawrence Has Fallen
…occupation through social media. This was no quiet protest. Hiding their identities behind masks, the group decorated the building with signs, barricaded doors, and blocked windows with plywood, effectively shutting…