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…
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Andrew Breitbart: Tweeting Evangelist For Conservatism
…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…
A Funny Book about Worthless Degrees
…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.”…
What Will the Court Do About Affirmative Action?
…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…
How To Bridge the Educational Divide
…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….
A Law Professor Takes on the Victimhood Industry
…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…
More Ideological Discrimination at the University of Iowa?
…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…
Emmer and Keeton–Two Terrible Decisions on Academic Freedom
…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…
The NEA: Union “Activists” as Diversicrats
…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 Embarrassment of “OccupyCUNY”
…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…
Brown Shows How to Skew a Case and Skewer the Accused
…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…
College Budget Cuts: How Course Corrections Can Undermine Students
…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…
In Defense of Bad Teaching
…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…
The Cupcake War as a Religious Event
…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…
What the Madison Confrontation Reveals
…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…
Harvard Pressures Freshmen to Sign a Moral Pledge
…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 New Divide over Productivity
…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…
The Mess at Widener Law School
…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…
The Unfortunate Case of Robert Klein Engler
…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…
Less Academics, More Narcissism
…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…
The 6th Circuit’s Astonishing Defense of Racial Preferences
…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…
Bothersome News from Overseas
…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…
Courageous Suggestions for Reforming Education Schools
…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…
More Ed School Follies
…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…
Quarantining the PC Pathology
…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…
More Ed-School “Social Justice” Studies
…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…
Writing Teachers: Still Crazy After All These Years
…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…
A Desperate Defense of Affirmative Action
…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…
What Characterizes the Modern Totalitarian, Corporatized University?
…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,…
No Longer Academic: When Activism Is on the Curriculum
…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…