A Crisis Averted is Not a Crisis Solved: DEI Reforms Face Resistance
…revolution.” But there is a caveat. The school is not simply closing these indoctrination camps, which currently have a combined student body of fewer than 60. In their place, UI…
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Zionist Professors Quitting Universities Are Handing Anti-Semites a Victory
…and loved.” Burt argues that “because I joined a Jewish faculty resilience group, signed letters, spoke at these very Regent’s meetings” about anti-Semitic indoctrination, she has been subjected to intense…
Academia Must Choose the Path That Leads to Reform
…staggering amounts into a system that promotes political indoctrination—be redirected toward restoring balance. That moment has arrived. Within weeks, a new administration will enter the White House, and universities’ futures…
North Carolinians and Allies Fight the Politicization and Racialization of Education
…prohibit indoctrination by teachers and professors. Though the legislation reflected classical liberal values, not a single Democratic legislator voted for it, and Democratic governor Roy Cooper vetoed it. December 2021:…
10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Counseling Master’s Program
…making that life-altering decision. 2. Counseling graduate school is an indoctrination program. CACREP, the accreditation board for counseling programs, requires counseling programs to infuse the entire course structure with Critical…
The Next President Should . . .
…year, colleges and universities have had a crisis of confidence. Many institutions had to choose between the lawlessness encouraged by years of leftist indoctrination and their mission to educate students….
Detoxifying Toxicity in American Education
…young adults contend with regularly. Most education research indicators point to toxicity’s negative effects on students and civic interpersonal engagement. Toxicity as Related to the Indoctrination of Students Over…
Academic Fright
…warned to shun such treats, but can they help themselves? Do they realize that one taste may lead to an eternity of damnable indoctrination in Shoel of scholarship? Fortunately, this…
A Report on the American Classroom 2024: Is Free Speech Just a Matter of Process?
…and were created to maintain social, political, and economic inequities.” The legislative objective seems praiseworthy—to avoid ideological indoctrination. The Report, however, concludes that Florida’s law is unconstitutional: “All of the…
Higher Education Shouldn’t Mean Higher Indoctrination
…nuance is essential to understanding the world we live in. If our goal truly is education, not indoctrination, then we must ask ourselves: how can we understand someone’s position if…
Kennesaw State Uses Georgia Taxpayers as Useful Idiots for ‘Inclusive Excellence’
…DEI staff, even in states where legislators have explicitly banned DEI from public institutions. A relevant example comes from Speech First’s report, “No Graduation Without Indoctrination: The DEI Course Mandate,”…
Closures are Decimating Higher Ed. But Your Campus Needn’t Succumb
…gave for not trusting higher education institutions is that they are seen as left-wing indoctrination camps. Maybe Ivy League schools can get away with that, but the average small college…
The Trouble with Three-Letter Acronyms
…ideas. Without a diversity of thought, education becomes indoctrination. “Engagement,” a crucial component of learning, builds on diversity and requires students’ active participation. The physicist Richard Feynman recalls how his…
How the Modern Law School Promotes Political Division and ‘Lawfare’
…votes that could lead to legal disqualification. Where does this kind of behavior come from? University law schools. It’s crucial to remember that the existence of ‘lawfare’ and its indoctrination…
The Courts Must Take Action on Educational Malpractice
…those issues. However the current ideological indoctrination crisis is at least equally if not more compelling. Faculty and other educational positions across the country are requiring statements regarding how prospective…
America’s Other Universities
…in higher education. The vast majority eschew “indoctrination” but welcome people from all backgrounds who prefer the language of “vocation,” seeking to help young people define their lives not in…
DEI’s Inevitable Descent into Legal Trouble
…and retributions against detractors. Opponents call it “discrimination, exclusion and indoctrination,” to wit. Industry leaders want to replace it with “Merit, Excellence and Intelligence.” Having realized that they have been…
The Nuclear Family is the Key to Closing Educational Gaps
…from school shootings, claims of indoctrination—from both sides of the political spectrum—and a myriad of other complaints. Ask teachers and parents, and you’ll likely get similar answers. Reformers point to…
Trusting the ‘Experts’ is Risky Business
…there is reason for concern about ideological indoctrination on the couch. This is a very difficult situation for the parents of troubled teens who may desperately need insights into evidence-based…
The Kirkpatrick Doctrine and Domestic Policy
…rejecting natural law and instead embracing economic planning and ideological indoctrination. The latter situation leads to cycles of fear and brutality and to the kinds of socioeconomic disasters that require…
The Baby Talk of “Inclusion and Belonging:” Higher Education is Not a 6th Grade After-School Club
…have plentiful other choices. The challenge is to recruit and initiate people into the group, engage a process of conversion and then reinforce it with indoctrination. Dr. Mark Griffiths is…
No, Mr. Mayor, Outside Organizers Are Not Responsible for Student Radicalism
…reference to the occupation of the Columbia University administration building, the Bee article headline is “Oh No! Indoctrinated Woke Extremists Destroy Woke Extremist Indoctrination Center.” Quoting an imaginary university official,…
Stacy Hawkins, I Said So
…We hold that higher education is primarily about education, not indoctrination. We hold that colleges and universities should be open without fear or favor to anyone who seeks knowledge and…
Echoes of Lost Conversations: A Review of ‘Bright College Years’
…influences many of them has a sign on his office door that says, “Sit Long, Talk Much.” Already reflecting a lost art in our contemporary age of professorial indoctrination and…
Two Cultures Revisited
…journals—younger women at the level of small societies. Finally, a word about the methods embodied in the allyship document. It is indoctrination of the sort sociologist Kurt Back warned about…
I Was Canceled
…can be likened more to an indoctrination of a belief system placed upon the next generation of learners. Even worse, it leads to a lack of critical thinking ability, open…
Balancing Academic Independence: Beyond Congressional Oversight
…the objection is that the university has abandoned academic freedom and the pursuit of truth to activism and indoctrination, university leaders should engage in some self-reflection. The efforts of alumni…
Saving Free Speech
…engagement in this course. Scientific inquiry becomes an unserious and laughable business when science is imbued with political indoctrination. Recently, San Francisco State University published a job post for a…
A Political Earthquake in an Overeducated Latin American Republic: Argentina Elects Javier Milei
…is a case study of how leftist indoctrination at every level of the education system can bleed over into the public square with disastrous consequences. In the language of Milei,…
Unmasking Anti-Semitism in Ethnic Studies
…transformation of ethnic studies into a vehicle for promoting anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic indoctrination. It outlines the extreme agenda of its advocates and discloses key figures within the CLES national movement….