Unionize All Those Adjuncts?–Let’s Not
…army of adjuncts who will teach all the remedial and watered-down introductory courses. Yet again, achieving “social justice” means more middle class jobs, in this case would-be university professors. Can…
…army of adjuncts who will teach all the remedial and watered-down introductory courses. Yet again, achieving “social justice” means more middle class jobs, in this case would-be university professors. Can…
…He hated that Facebook limited him to just 5,000 friends, because, well, Andrew knew no limits. He seemed to live off the energy of social interactions, especially those online and…
…Clarey. (Puppetry falls into a category of degrees that Clarey describes as “New Age Crap,” bearing such titles as “Peace Studies,” “Social Justice,” “Holistic Medicine,” and “Master’s in Outdoor Recreation.”…
…have been absent the preferences. Read the briefs for the excruciating chapter and verse. Justice O’Connor held in Grutter that the “educational benefits” that flow from “diversity” constitute a “compelling…
…to higher education and can advance economically, culturally, even socially? Adam Smith wouldn’t have thought so. He understood that the kind of cultural divide that Murray writes about is artificial….
…publicity to save wrongly-accused professors from being convicted and fired. They put to good use Justice Brandeis’s observation that publicity cures social evils, just as sunlight is a disinfectant. But…
…humanities and many social science departments around the country. A recent 8th Circuit decision, however, gives some hope that some sense of checks and balances might come to exist in…
…schoolteachers for their “disposition to promote social justice.” The implication of Keeton, then, is that (at least in the 11th Circuit) the free speech rights of Education students are now…
…those of us who strike to be attentive to teaching and/or to social justice issues.” There’s little reason to believe, of course, that Armstrong, whose research explores such politically correct…
…the Times.) One signatory wanted the “OccupyCUNY” folks to join forces with another key battle in the crusade for social justice and meaningful change—critics of the law requiring Utahans to “buy…
…as a social worker. He served as the first president of Brown’s NAACP chapter, but in an article last year, confessed that “whenever I encountered someone with black skin, I…
…predict how English majors end up producing voice identification technology, or how anthropologists studying child abuse can relate such abuse to kinship patterns. Informing social workers and the criminal justice…
…it can be used to achieve social justice. Good teaching will be measured by questionnaires distributed to students who seldom know what they are supposed to learn, and instructors are…
…plain-to-see reality. Critically, at least for some—maybe most—Berkeley students, this correction of past injustice enterprise may have gone too far. For them “racial injustice” may mean knowing high school classmates…
…permit the university to escape craven dishonesty and possible expensive litigation. My explanation is that returning to the old policy would eliminate the “achieve social justice” infrastructure and, to be…
…intellectual pursuit and social justice” such as the law school does not encompass the “insensitivity” of making “hurtful” suggestions. Minow did not seek formal discipline but took care to note…
…the usual conflicts over ideology (for example, leftist faculty vs. moderate or conservative others) or educational mission (for example, social justice vs. workforce training). It opens over the meaning of…
…that first surfaced in law schools during the 1980s, is quite different. In New Law School thinking, the law does not embody a rational system of justice—or even strivings toward…
…It’s just something you don’t say in a classroom, not coming from a professor, and especially not at a school like Roosevelt University, which is based on social justice.” That…
…universities provide all of their students). But it was hardly out of character on a campus presided over by a chancellor fond of “social justice” rhetoric. And UC’s other campuses…
…treatment under the law. This isn’t to say that courts should simply rubber-stamp popular votes on all social issues. The use of plebiscites to strip from minority groups a fundamental…
…all education programs individually assess whether prospective public schoolteachers had a disposition to “promote social justice.” Meanwhile, from Australia comes news of a survey claiming that one in six female…
…think rather than how to think.” Shudak’s article raises two additional important issues. First, he suggests that their diversity/social justice obsession actually encourages Education professors to seek out weaker students to enter…
…measure the “disposition” of each and every prospective public school teacher to promote social justice. (The mandate didn’t apply to schools that don’t list promotion as social justice as a…
…social justice. And the assignment may be beyond their intellectual abilities. Why should tenured radicals surrender life-time employment to prevent professorial abuses? In a nutshell, our side insists on painful…
…ethnic background. And the “social justice” championed by graduate students such as Mira clearly would not include figures who define “social justice” as upholding Biblical fundamentalism by denying gay and…
…determining justice. The final event, “Prison Writing: Pedagogy, Representation, Research, and Action,” presented a consensus about justice, though: prisoners should be made aware of the injustices committed against them by…
…for preferences is thus seen as restorative justice for victims of past racial oppression who currently suffer from its effects in the form of poverty, joblessness, and educational deprivation. By…
…the collegiate lexicon—civil liberties appeared to take a backseat. It did not occur to administrators that this form of social engineering on campus—dictating what students may and may not say—rarely,…
…in the job market, especially for candidates applying for the positions like that of Professor of Social Justice and Sustainability at Chatham University. And consider Verderame’s course of study: “19th-century British literature…