Top College Endowments Are Political Targets Now
…colleges where they’d have been challenged and into ones where they’ll do fine but perhaps not their very best. For all the lip service they pay to various “social justice”…
…colleges where they’d have been challenged and into ones where they’ll do fine but perhaps not their very best. For all the lip service they pay to various “social justice”…
…can promote justice. The Reality: American Colleges Railroad the Innocent For those who have spent any time on campus in the past two decades, this argument seems counterintuitive. The contemporary…
…sexual misconduct, while depriving accused students of due process rights in campus disciplinary proceedings. Related: Feminist Censored from Censorship Panel The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, led by Vanita Gutpa,…
…professor. Shortly thereafter, the Dept. of Justice sent letters to Gov. McCrory and the University of North Carolina claiming that H.B.2 violated Title VII and Title IX of federal civil…
…cogs and gears that make up the tyrannical machinery of “social justice” on campus. Professor Melissa Click’s call last year at a University of Missouri Black Lives Matter protest for…
Liberal. Progressive. Liberal progressive. Progressive liberal. Radical. Social democrat. Democratic socialist. Occupiers. Social justice warriors. What do we call today’s leaders of the political left? Where do they stand in…
…sexual assault are better handled by the criminal justice system than by campus tribunals—in no small measure because the public can have confidence in the Turner verdict in a way…
…case, a Claremont-McKenna administrator who sent a sympathetic but ineptly worded email to a Hispanic student; and whose resignation in disgrace prompted the Social Justice Warriors at the other schools…
…positions,” we are defined as “faculty who work on critical issues related to social justice.” So it’s a special sinecure for those with the correct political agenda.” Tracinski’s observations came…
…coherence isn’t what we require of federal agencies devoted to progressive social justice. Progress is what we expect. The “Dear Colleague” letter begins with a statement of seeming fact: Schools…
…the colleges, fearing that students of different racial, religious, and social backgrounds would clash with one another, expanded the student-life bureaucracies to, in their view, keep the peace. Regardless of…
…a whole lot of people committed to “social justice” by celebrating one or another kind of victimhood. Calls for papers go out to those writing “anthropology fiction,” “lies that tell…
…the system is for white people to acknowledge and shed their immense “privilege.” The event featured “social justice” topics, such as “White Women: Internalized Sexism and White Superiority,” and “White…
…and social justice” – words constantly promoted by university administrators (and accompanied by an ever-expanding corpus of administrators tasked with overseeing these agendas) – or to protect the fragility of…
…in the way of the feminist social justice agenda? Feminists Burnt by Feminism Alas, when we turn to the report itself, it is more the latter. The major problem that…
…him as “honest to a fault” — with an exceptionally humane, classical liberal approach to most social problems. At Virginia Tech, a group calling itself the Coalition for Justice fell…
…weeded out if they lacked commitment to the hard left. Indicators of a poor disposition were lack of commitment to “social Justice,” another buzzword whose meaning was never quite clear,…
…academics achieve in a lifetime.” But then he pivots to his real subject: his attack on the critics who say “left-wing social justice” is a threat to free speech. He…
…inclusion, injustice, intercultural understanding, local talent, meaningful, multiple disciplinary application, perspectives, powerful, readability, relevant, responsibility, sensitivity, shared experience, social justice, social responsibility, timely, and tolerance. (Critical thinking, ethics, and tolerance…
…to enforce them. At the macro level, universities have adopted “social justice” as a supposed core mission, in the name of which policing of speech and behavior has become ever…
…communities, becoming ever more committed to social justice, and ever less hospitable to dissenting views. I wanted to know if there was any political diversity in social psychology. So I…
…and educational goals composed of content-free processes and unexamined buzz-words like “critical thinking,” “diversity,” “ways of knowing,” “social justice,” and “cultural competence.” Our students are the achievement of a systemic…
…professor instead of their first libertarian, or when applicants with “social justice credentials” win scholarships over high-achieving conservatives. Brands like “social justice” and “compassionate” promise to sap higher education of…
Oregon State University is launching a series of “social justice retreats” to “promote a campus dialogue about race and racism.” Translation: the university is sponsoring therapized programs to makes non-whites…
…that this is some sort of justice — white males have enjoyed positions of privilege for centuries, and now they are getting a taste of their own medicine. But these…
…popular? One obvious one is that, far from being a society riddled with social injustice, the U.S. has made so much progress that such charges are cast routinely and fearlessly…
…students and cede control to leftist protesters. Given higher education’s track record, however, both developments are unsurprising. Universities have long preached the gospel of social justice through politicized degree programs,…
…speech to stop microaggressions and anti-protest remarks, and impose mandatory social-justice training for students and faculty. Walter Olson of Cato and Overlawyered.com compiled a list of demand highlights. They include:…
…by the Ford Foundation “diversity” programs, Joan Kroc’s gift of $200 million to fund “peace” and “social justice” programs at two universities and Jane Fonda’s $12.5 million to found a…
…on anonymous politically-incorrect speech on campus, which they claim violates federal civil-rights laws such as Title IX. They claim they are concerned about “harassment” on anonymous social media applications like…