A Double Shock to Liberal Professors
Social psychology has long been a haven for left-wing scholars. Jonathan Haidt, one of the best known and most respected young social psychologists, has heaved two bombshells at his field–one…
Search Results for: Social justice
Reading Kant and Debating White Nationalists
…studying Aristotle’s rhetoric. As they are denied the training in reasoned argument, students are emotionally bullied into embracing “social justice,” “global citizenship,” and “sustainability.” What is the real world result?…
The New Yorker Takes on the US News College Rankings
…that “As answers go, that’s up there with the parental ‘Because I said so.’” Promising Impossible Precision In some respects, the Guide’s conclusion remind me of Supreme Court Justice Potter…
Judge Garza’s Insights
…educate students in the physical sciences, engineering, social sciences, business and the humanities, among other academic disciplines.” In a post from last year, I noted how Justices Kennedy and Stevens…
The Fifth Circuit Broadens Racial Preferences
…the court, replaced by a stalwart conservative, Justice Samuel Alito, an appointee of President George W. Bush, and the perpetual high court swing vote, Justice Anthony Kennedy, was one of…
No Labels = No Thinking, and No Fighting for Principles Either
…the new courtroom as a “utopian metaphor for classroom relations,” where the rules of justice have been changed by the “Amazons.” This “imaginary court,” Desmet writes, “has no judge; there…
Let’s Change the Student Loan Program
…a race between education and catastrophe.” Wells was talking about education as a force for world peace and social betterment. He would probably feel vindicated by the interest of American…
The Big, Bad, “Right Wing”
…“Cassandras,” and characterized by “more than a whiff of elitism”—also worried about the academy substituting its traditional pursuit of the truth in favor of embracing a commitment to pursue “social…
No Diversity Award for Helen Thomas
…positive social change.” Each prize, Grinnell announced, “carries an award of $100,000, half to the winning individual and half to an organization committed to the winner’s area of social justice.”…
Social Justice Art and Liberal Democracy
…vision of art education is political, not aesthetic and individual. The “social justice” art movement points us decidedly in the direction of Rousseau than James Madison. Just what is social…
The Propaganda in Our Ed Schools
…World: Math Education and Social Justice.” At thirty-two workshops on Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus and in half a dozen city public schools, math teachers demonstrated classroom lessons to help…
Academic Conferences: the Oppressed Versus the Oppressors
…held Nov. 3-6 in Las Vegas. One of the keynote speakers will be Augustine Romero, director of a “student equity” and “social justice” project in the Tucson, AZ, public school…
The Defense of Radical Teaching
For a few years now, distinguished literary scholar Gerald Graff has been disputing with “social justice” professors and “radical teachers” over the proper use of authority in the classroom. While…
More Wreckage from Ginsburg’s ‘Neutral’ Ruling
…anti-bias policies in ways that interfered with religious belief. (Writing for the high court majority, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that the state-supported Hastings College of Law’s policy of requiring…
The Underperformance Problem
…In many humanities, social science, and history courses written assignments and term papers — not timed, in-class exams — are the basis of a student’s academic assessment but the underperformance…
Title IX Has A Disparate Impact–for Black Women
…want to achieve Title IX’s goals for women of all races, Brake writes, they’ll need “a dose of social-justice feminism” to broaden their advocacy beyond the letter of the law….
How to Fight for Free Speech on Our ‘Sensitive’ Campuses
…the name of misguided notions of “civility” and “social justice.” But perhaps a more powerful motive for General Counsel to advise colleges to enact speech codes is the lawyers’ obsession…
Seeing Academic Repression Everywhere
…social justice. This is certainly to be applauded. However, too often such a struggle is antiseptically cleaved from the project of transforming capitalist social relations. Goals such as “to challenge…
White Men Don’t Go to Ed School
…focus on in the College, which are expressed in the acronym TEACH: Transformative Leadership Equity and Social Justice Action Collaboration Human Differences and Diversity Darren asked wittily: “Which four are…
How Diversity Punishes Asians, Poor Whites and Lots of Others
…racial preferences based on generalized “societal discrimination,” social justice, or the contemporary needs of American society as insufficiently weighty to overrule the color-blind imperative of the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection…
Ethnic Studies: ”White Studies” in Black and Brown?
…ethnic studies is, indeed, anchored in the histories, traditions, literatures, and philosophies of American people of color and their diaspora. The field also supports social justice and equality for all….
What Happened at Berkeley in November
…of 1964 launched decades of illegal student protest: how to balance students’ passions for social justice (and sometimes other motives) with the rule of law. November 20 capped three days…
What Now After CLS?
…Justice Alito termed a campus agenda of political correctness. The “all-comers” policy has satisfied the Supreme Court. But from an educational standpoint, does it make any sense? What purpose is…
A War on the Quality of Higher Education
…peoples and problems and developing individuals who will advance equity and justice both at home and abroad.” [emphasis added] The desired general education curriculum, moreover, will allow students “to wrestle…
Let’s Pretend This Is Research
…“social justice,” 96 on “diversity,” 52 on “critical race theory,” and 28 on “feminist theory.” This list pretty much exhausts the political obsessions of the cultural left. But it hasn’t…
Amen to Bard’s Reading Program, but…
…point for discussion and activities in your First Year Seminar; and -prepare you for discussions related to our socio-economic status issues in the United States and how social justice advocacy…
Reshape Universities Because of “Stereotype Threat”?
…in admissions. “Social justice” requires that race and class be weighed. Having done this, we must “question our deeper assumptions about what success is” and “rethink some of our most…
Mandatory Opinions on Public Campuses
…Study of Social Justice on campus. In addition, the plan included a diversity strategy stating that the campus will identify spaces to be devoted to underrepresented student groups. While the…
The Politically Correct University and How to Fix It
…university professors to want higher salaries? If “social justice” theorists like Jonathan Kozol are really in it for the children, why don’t they donate their $20,000 speaking fees to scholarships?…
Teach Social Justice–Or Else
…disposition thinking say is that while it is fitting and proper to introduce teacher-aspirants to ideas about social justice, social and economic inequities, racial and other demographic variables, and related…