Idaho’s legislators were awakened to the demise of higher education by two reports, co-authored by Dr. Scott Yenor of the Claremont Institute and me, on the University of Idaho and Boise State. These reports showed Idaho’s public universities, like virtually all of America’s colleges and universities, have abandoned educational excellence in favor of the social justice agenda.
This indoctrination has been infused into the administration, hiring, curriculum, and residence life on college campuses.
-Anna K. Miller 
Social-justice ideology is turning higher education into an engine of progressive political advocacy, according to a new report by the National Association of Scholars.
Left-wing activists, masquerading as professors, are infiltrating traditional academic departments or creating new ones—departments such as “Solidarity and Social Justice”—to advance their cause.
They are entering the highest rung of college administration, from which perch they require students to take social-justice courses, such as “Native Sexualities and Queer Discourse” or “Hip-hop Workshop,” and attend social-justice events—such as a Reparations, Repatriation, and Redress Symposium or a Power and Privilege Symposium—in order to graduate.
-Heather Mac Donald Dec, 2019
The current anti-racist frenzy is the product of a poisoned academic culture that has declared war on Western Civilization and that teaches students, more than anything else, how to hate—to hate the greatest accomplishments of our civilization, to hate America, and to hate one another.
We continue to play with fire.
-Heather Mac Donald
Before classes even began at The College of New Jersey, lessons were underway for new students, who were told at a recent mandatory new student orientation event that rugged individualism is a myth, Fox News hosts are backward and bigoted, and white people are mentally weak.
All that plus America “was never really such a great place for millions of people.”
-Graham Piro
Education, as opposed to indoctrination, requires people to have the freedom to test out new ideas and question existing orthodoxies. Throughout history, every major intellectual breakthrough has inevitably involved upsetting those whose entrenched beliefs finally have been scrutinised. -The Conversation
Liberal, Government, Racism, Education, Fascism, Academia
Two Roosevelt University professors who also serve on the Oak Park and River Forest High School school board were caught on an open Zoom call bragging about how they promote Marxist re-organization of American society to their college students.
Talking before the start of OPRF's Feb. 26 board meeting on a live microphone, Gina Harris and Ralph Martire said they were proud to advocate for so-called "social justice" Marxist economic concepts.
“I mean, it’s all social justice. All day, every day, I get to talk about the things I love. I’m really living the life over here,” Harris said.
She called social justice “a part of everything," adding that she was teaching "middle school theory and practice" to future K-12 teachers at Roosevelt.
Martire, a Roosevelt professor of public policy and public administration, said the way he views government budgets is through a lens on how use them to "organize society."
Liberal, Academia
Universities routinely tell students to read books that advance left-wing ideology on issues such as social justice and class warfare.
The College Fix reports that a new study published in late May from the National Association of Scholars (NAS) documents just how books deemed written by “dead white authors” have been replaced with political tomes designed to indoctrinate students...
“The themes register most strongly the common reading genre’s continuing obsession with race, as well as its infantilization of its students, its middlebrow taste, and its progressive politics.” Students were told to read books about African-American, Latin-American and Muslim characters.
Liberal, Hate, Character, Degeneracy, Academia, Sexism
A university in the United States has begun offering classes in “constructive male allyship,” providing a space where male students are able to “question and deconstruct toxic masculinities.” Duke University, based in the city of Durham, North Carolina, held its first Learning Community session last week. The women’s centre has organised a nine-week series of seminars, as part of the Duke Men’s Project.
Liberal, Education, Academia, Pc
Oregon State University reportedly plans to force all students to take a “social justice training” beginning in the fall of 2016. “This training initiative is intended to provide all students entering Oregon State University an orientation to concepts of diversity, inclusion and social justice and help empower all OSU students to contribute to an inclusive university community.”
Required Multiculturalism Course: Indoctrination of White Males...
I teach these classes to mostly 22–28-year-old, white, cisgender, heterosexual, able-bodied, middle-class students during their second year in a two-year, cohort-based graduate programme.
When students begin my courses, they have already completed a required Multiculturalism course, taught by my mentor who is a full professor and identifies as a black, cisgender, heterosexual, woman.
For many students in the master’s programme, the Multiculturalism course provides their first awareness of privilege – white privilege, male privilege, able-bodied privilege, cisgender privilege, heterosexual privilege, social class privilege and Christian privilege.
Political Action as Education...
Heeding the call of the #BlackLivesMatter movement and global network, this course joins the nationwide effort to deconstruct anti-Blackness, dismantle white supremacy, center Black resistance and build solidarity movements that support the wellness and self-determination of Black communities.
By succeeding in their “long march” through higher education, today’s progressive professors and administrators have created an academic environment, abetted by vaguely written anti-discrimination laws, that internalizes censorship through shaming, intimidation, and threats of legal sanction. The effect is the same as the more brutal techniques of totalitarian states: dissent is driven off campus, making it easier for progressives to indoctrinate and mold to their own ends the susceptible and undeveloped minds of students. -Bruce Thornton
Liberal, Racism, Narrative, Education, Academia
White college students are undergoing a weekly “deconstructing whiteness” program at Northwestern University. The “6-part workshop series for undergraduate students who self-identify as white” launched in January and runs through March, according to the university’s website. Students enrolled chose to do so – it is voluntary.
No Talk of Budgets In "Fiscal Policy And Public Budgets" Class...
"Yeah. I always flip out the kids that take my master's class on fiscal policy and public budgets within the first three or four classes are devoted to philosophy of social justice and how you organize society.
We don't talk about one, you know, budgetary item. They're like, Oh, man. Professor Martire, this is a really weird way to teach a budget."
Degeneracy, Funny, Academia
A group of 16 students at California Polytechnic State University produced an alternative guide for freshmen completing the university’s orientation program they call a “Disorientation Guide.” The students said they hope it will "decolonize your mind from the hold of the cissexist-imperialist-ableist-white-supremacist-capitalistic-patriarchal-society that has choked you so violently up until now.”
Academia: Math Is Racist...
"No aspect of the educational process at any level is off limits for the social justice indoctrination. Mathematics was once considered immune: after all, doesn't 2 + 2 = 4? But as I have read recently, the problem that math and arithmetic insist on correct answers is actually a hidden form of 'white supremacy,' as everything else is as well."
Degeneracy, Academia, Pc
A lecturer at North Carolina State University will reportedly be docking students’ grades for using “sexist” language — such as the word “mankind.” “Thanks to evolution, generalized pronouns and other biased references are no longer acceptable in any class,” stated the syllabus for Nancy Bishop’s online Women and Poverty class, according to a screenshot of the document obtained by the College Fix.
"Uneducated masses are easy to herd. Miseducated masses easier still."
Hate, Incompetence, Degeneracy, Racism, Academia, Immigration, Tolerance, Diversity, Stereotyping
Multiple professors at Washington State University have explicitly told students their grades will suffer if they use terms such as “illegal alien,” "male," and “female,” or if they fail to “defer” to non-white students. According to the syllabus for Selena Lester Breikss’ “Women & Popular Culture” class, students risk a failing grade if they use any common descriptors that Breikss considers “oppressive and hateful language.”
White students in Professor John Streamas’s “ Introduction to Multicultural Literature” class, are expected to “defer” to non-white students, among other community guidelines, if they want “to do well in this class.”... Streamas—who previously generated controversy by calling a student a “ white shitbag” and declared that WSU should stand for “White Supremacist University”—also demands that students “understand and consider the rage of people who are victims of systematic injustice.”
A freshman at Delaware couldn’t escape the ideological, highly politicized messages about consumerism, social justice, affirmative action, world redistribution of wealth, and so on. The messages were woven into the fabric of the very place where students slept or talked late into the night. The door decorations were not the usual “Hello, My Name Is,” but rather featured the “three interlocking circles” of “sustainability”: “social justice,” “healthy environments,” and “strong economies.”
Liberal, Sex, Education, Demagoguery, Protest, Academia
More than 450 graduate students at Columbia University have signed a letter boycotting the school’s mandatory sexual respect education program. As previously reported by Campus Reform, the Ivy League school in New York City unveiled a new sexual respect education program mandatory for all students. Students were required to participate in one of five options—including creating a poem or dance—by March 13 in order to register for classes or graduate.
I was in a graduate-level media course when the professor quite literally labeled conservative Americans "ignorant" people.
I remember thinking to myself "what if she finds out I don't like Hillary Clinton and I am against socialized medicine?" I kept quiet.
Liberal, Character, Racism, Academia
Next semester, Notre Dame will offer a class that aims to help students acknowledge and understand their so-called “white privilege” and – as a result of their “personal transformation” – find ways to “disrupt … oppression,” a description of the class states.
I had students come to me with the same concerns…they were being graded on their political opinions, not the work they turned in, they were shut down in class discussions for disagreeing with the professor, or they were ridiculed by professors.
Required Class at Salisbury University: "Diversity and the Self" ...
"This class was extremely difficult to get through if you did not think like a liberal. Instead of teaching diversity, this class taught us that being white was a bad thing."
Hypocrisy, Racism, Smears, Academia, Tolerance, Sexism
Students at Appalachian State University in North Carolina are being admonished by a residential adviser who is urging them to “check” no fewer than seven types of privilege, Campus Reform reports. The dangerous privileges to be checked were all listed on a bulletin board in the campus’ East Hall, and included “white privilege,” “male privilege,” “Christian privilege,” “heterosexual privilege", ”able-bodied privilege,” “class privilege” and even “cisgender privilege” (a person is “cisgender” if their stated gender matches their physical sex).
Banning The Criticism Of Faculty, Departments, And Programs ...
Perhaps one of the few benefits of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it has imposed a “digital transparency” on many events that previously took place in secret and now can be recorded using conferencing technology such as Zoom.
This is the case with a March 1, 2021 meeting of the Portland State faculty senate, at which an egregious example of the New Censorship occurred.
The senate passed a resolution banning the criticism of faculty, departments, and programs and also planned additional restrictions on the academic freedoms of the “unwoke.”
Liberal, Government, Character, AntiAmerican, Academia, Communism
Cuba’s communist-led intelligence services are aggressively recruiting leftist American academics and university professors as spies and influence agents, according to an internal FBI report published this week.
Cuban intelligence services “have perfected the work of placing agents, that includes aggressively targeting U.S. universities under the assumption that a percentage of students will eventually move on to positions within the U.S. government that can provide access to information of use to the [Cuban intelligence service],” the five-page unclassified FBI report says. It notes that the Cubans “devote a significant amount of resources to targeting and exploiting U.S. academia.”
"Youth should learn to think and act as a mass!"
A Very Beautiful and Simple Myth
Growing up at nice lefty, wildly expensive private schools, I learned history as a series of progressive triumphs over conservative intolerance.
It made me happy to know that was how the world unfolded. It made me happy to know I’d be on the righteous side. It made me happy to know that the good team would win out. Each day is better than the last, and the path forward is always clear.
Religious schooling does not impart that message. It can’t. The Bible’s myths are all about chaos and complexity, sin and redemption, destruction and forgiveness, cowardice and courage, idiocy, luck.
To instill blissful confidence in me, the educational system had to downplay or ignore leftist failure. Secular, liberal Americans like me are taught a very beautiful and simple myth. It goes a little like: every progressive program that has failed or caused suffering didn’t do so because of some flaw in the plan or some misunderstanding of human nature. It failed because of forces on the wrong side of history.
This is how the system popped me out, at 22 years old, with only the vaguest knowledge of why the Soviet Union was a disaster.
The academic left has created a great deal of mischief by appropriating wholesome words for unwholesome ends. This game has been perfected with diversity, inclusion, social justice, and sustainability—all words that mean roughly the opposite of what they sound like. -Peter Wood
Liberal, Degeneracy, Academia
Oberlin College is considering a set of rules in the athletics department which would include mandatory transgender sensitivity training for all of its staff and coaches. “It is basically intended to sort of be a 101,” Emily Clarke, a junior and member of the committee, told Campus Reform. “We also talk about choice, privilege and agency in presentation of gender and pronouns and ends with trans-allyship dos and don’ts.
Liberal, Character, Politics, Academia, Islam
Professor Hatem Bazian, who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, is requiring his students to tweet weekly on Islamophobia, according to a column in the Toronto Sun. Several students said they were uncomfortable with the assignment and felt it was “unethical.” One student reportedly said, “I can’t help but feel this is unethical. This is his agenda, not mine.”
Liberal, Character, Oops, Politics, Academia
In a message to TCC staff, an anonymous student at Rutgers University forwarded an e-mail from the University’s VP of Public Affairs encouraging students to contact New Jersey’s Representatives and Senators to show their approval of the DREAM Act. The Rutgers University e-mail (written by VP of Public Affairs Pete McDonough) read as follows: “As you may know, we have been working with New Jersey’s members of the US Senate and House of Representatives calling for the enactment of comprehensive immigration reform that includes the DREAM Act. We have made great progress and success may well be in sight...
Liberal, Character, Racism, Narrative, Academia, Diversity
Northwestern University is busy implementing an ambitious program for diversity on campus. University officials have created a “Social Inequalities and Diversities” requirement, which all students will have to complete before they graduate. The draft proposal states that once completed, students will be able to “expand their ability to think critically”, “recognize their own positionality in systems of inequality,” and “engage in self-reflection on power and privilege.”
"If the classroom situation is very heteropatriarchal - a large beginning class of 50 to 60 students, say, with few feminist students - I am likely to define my task as largely one of recruitment ... of persuading students that women are oppressed" - Professor Joyce Trebilcot of Washington University
Guns, Character, Oops, Academia
Midwestern State University Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Betty Stewart confirmed to Campus Reform Friday the school has launched an investigation into professor Jennifer Yucus’ conduct after a student filed an official complaint on Thursday. According to the complaint, obtained by Campus Reform, the professor compelled students in her graphic design class to create artwork opposing firearms on campus and opposing pro-gun legislation currently pending before the Texas state legislature... “The posters were then hung in the hallways of the Fain Arts building, giving the impression of student support.”
Democrat, Liberal, Hate, Incitement, Incompetence, Character, Oops, Academia, Tolerance, Diversity, Religion, Bigotry
Just in time for Holy Week are many reports about this controversial incident involving a local college professor at Florida Atlantic University in Davie, Florida making his students literally stomp on paper after they were instructed to write the name Jesus on it. However national media, while reporting on this incident, neglected to include the fact that the professor is also vice-chairman of the Palm Beach County Democratic Party.
Hate, Degeneracy, Academia, Religion
A student at Florida Atlantic University said he was unfairly suspended from his Intercultural Communications class because he refused to step on Jesus. Ryan Rotella, a junior from Coral Springs, said the incident began when his professor, Dr. Deandre Poole, asked students in the class to write the word “Jesus” on a piece of paper, fold it up, and step on it. Rotella, a deeply religious Mormon, told CBS12 that he was offended and refused to participate in the exercise.
Character, Fascism, Abortion, Academia, Vandalism, Pc
DePaul University has punished a student for publicizing the names of fellow students who admitted to vandalizing his organization's pro-life display. The student, Kristopher Del Campo, has been placed on probation after being found responsible for multiple conduct violations, including one that absurdly brands the publication of the names as "disorderly, violent, intimidating or dangerous."
Why pay a fortune to sit with a thousand other suckers in a cavernous lecture hall learning almost nothing – except that America is a heteronormative vortex of imperialist oppression – when you can do it online for 5% of the cost? -Kurt Schlichter
Liberal, Hate, Incitement, Violence, Guns, Racism, Education, Academia, Tolerance, Diversity
During his testimony Wednesday, Thandiwe suggested that his reason for even purchasing the gun he used in the shootings was to enforce beliefs he’d developed about white people during his later years as an anthropology major at the University of West Georgia.
“I was trying to prove a point that Europeans had colonized the world, and as a result of that, we see a lot of evil today,” he said. “In terms of slavery, it was something that needed to be answered for. I was trying to spread the message of making white people mend.”
"Programming and preparation" for White students...
Thomas and Luba recommend robust "pre-departure programming and preparation" for White students.
In particular, they hope that White students will address their "white fragility," which they describe as "the (in)ability of white subjects to properly deal with questions of race and racism."
Democrat, Liberal, Election, Incompetence, Obama, Character, Fascism, Academia, Corruption
A tenured professor who forced her students to sign pledges that they would vote for President Barack Obama last November should be fired, the college’s president recommended. Sharon Sweet, an associate professor of mathematics at Brevard Community College in Florida, is guilty of electioneering, harassment, and incompetence, according to a three-month investigation into her classroom behavior leading up to the November election.
Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.
Environmentalist, Warming, Editorial, Liberal, Narrative, Education, Fascism, Academia, Pc
UCLA has found a novel way to improve the politicization of its curriculum. UCLA Today, the faculty and staff newspaper, reports that the university’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the Sustainability Committee have teamed up to help faculty members across the university figure out ways to slip sustainability messages into their classes, regardless of the actual subjects they are teaching. Participating faculty members get a two-hour workshop and a $1,200 grant to turn their courses into vehicles of sustaina-ganda. The newspaper account highlights political science professor Miriam Golden who is using the extra money to change reading lists, data sets, homework assignments. Professor Golden is ardently behind the cause. “I think climate change is the largest global challenge to ever face the human race, and we need to help students understand the social and political implications,” she says.
Editorial, Liberal, Incompetence, Education, Academia, Socialism, Bias
The many California professors behind a nearly 90-page report detailing a litany of examples of leftist political bias by University of California educators continue to call for reform – and continually get shut down by the system’s leaders, who refuse to admit there is a problem. The report, released in April and penned by the California Association of Scholars – which represents several hundred professors across the state – details how universities in general, and the University of California system’s 10 campuses in particular, are filled with radically politicized, socialist-leaning professors who teach students “what to think rather than how to think.”
The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion office of Princeton University has a message for incoming students: It wants them to participate in “tearing down” the very institution they have worked so hard to attend.
As members of the class of 2025 arrive on campus, they receive a mandatory injection not of a vaccine against COVID, but of indoctrination.
An official video freshmen are required to watch presents an utterly one-sided and negative picture of Princeton’s history.
-John Londregan and Sergiu Klainerman
Democrat, Liberal, Election, Character, Academia, Law
A college professor has been placed on leave after she allegedly forced her class to sign a pledge to vote for President Obama in the upcoming elections. Early last week Professor Sharon Sweet at Brevard Community College (BCC) allegedly told students to sign a pledge that reads: “I pledge to vote for President Obama and Democrats up and down the ticket.” The pledge was printed off of GottaVote.org, a website funded by the Obama campaign... “Based on the allegations, Associate Professor Sweet has requested, and been granted, a leave of absence without pay effective immediately,” reads a statement put out by John Glisch, Associate Vice President for Communications at BCC... Sweet’s actions may have also violated Florida’s election laws.
Politics, Academia
UCLA's "Academic Freedom Committee" has delivered an important document that appears to give carte blanche to professors to introduce unrelated political advocacy into their classrooms--in apparent violation of Regents' policy.
Democrat, Liberal, Election, Oops, Academia, Bias
The History Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is offering a two-credit "Independent Study" for students who agree to canvass or otherwise volunteer in a presidential campaign through Election Day. An email from an Obama campaign worker urges students from UMass and four colleges that allow cross-registration with UMass (Amherst, Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Hampshire) to sign up before it is too late.
Democrat, Liberal, Election, Politics, Academia, Bias
As faculty members at Ohio State last week double-checked their syllabi, glanced at their rosters, and ran through the usual routines for the start of fall courses, some of them found a surprise in their e-mail in boxes. A senior English professor invited his colleagues to open their classrooms in the weeks ahead to organizers in the Obama campaign. They would first encourage students to register to vote and then, if the instructors were willing, encourage students to volunteer for the Obama campaign.
“There is still a distinction between teaching and indoctrination, between exploring a viewpoint and endorsing it without allowing divergent perspectives to be heard,” UMass Amherst professor Daphne Patai told Fox News. “We are supposed to teach our students how to think, not what to think.”
One of John Podesta's emails released by WikiLeaks this week exposes how progressive elites seek to exploit the unwashed masses. The email features one of Podesta's colleagues from the Center for American Progress admitting that the institutional left "conspires to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry," ostensibly to impose their radical agenda on us without much resistance. -Debra Heine