Is their a Leftist Agenda in Academia?

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Like Oral Roberts University.....

Are they a highly regarded institution?

Actually, they have a good reputation.

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‘Feminist Science’ event teaches researchers how to do ‘socially just science’

Event seeks to embed social justice into science for ‘progressive social change’

Scientific inquiry has long been considered a stalwart of observation and objectivity, but one effort underway by some researchers prioritizes applying a “critical social justice lens into science,” according to an upcoming event at UC Santa Cruz.

The event, what organizers dubbed “Feminist Science,” describes the effort as a method that infuses social justice, inclusion and equality into science to advance progressive social change.

“Research Justice 101: Tools for Feminist Science” will be hosted at the Northern California school next week and teach researchers how to “practice a socially just science,” according to the event’s description on the university’s website.

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/41257/

I, personally, think that universities are just biased towards reality.

That being said, I find that universities are often reluctant to address US foreign policy. Instead, they tend to focus on the discrimination that occurs within Western society ... even though American foreign policy kills more people.

To be honest, that's my main problem with intellectuals these days. They see the world the way it really is, but they have their priorities in the wrong order.

#firstworldproblems

To the original question I'm going to just say no.

They're money-making machines, a lot of the liberal arts colleges have extended their social-justice-y departments to keep up with supply and demand, in that move I think they did take on some radicals. Also we know that a great many administrations show terror of their students, especially the unreasonable minority (not ethnic or gender minority necessarily - just the handful of truly loud activists), they know all the ways from Sunday that the name of the school can get tarred, and they're accordingly constantly playing along with - and losing - what's similar to an extortion game.

It's not to say that there aren't postmodernist-dominated departments, just that I think those departments and that persona was less of a plan (ie. no conspiracy - just an organic result of other dynamics) and enough of those people are intolerable enough that people who aren't in their same bubble run for the hills or try to get a transfer somewhere else or to some other profession at their earliest convenience.

Conservative students want Stanford professor who co-founded Antifa club to resign

Most academics that I know don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground. They mostly stay in their ivory towers and seldom get out in the real world.

Honestly, the political atmosphere at most big universities is over-stated as is the presence of feminist oriented programs of study. To be perfectly honest, most serious students studying practical majors don't have time for politics or protests. Those events and seminars that focus on social justice issues are often obscure events.

The the events that attracts the biggest crowds at universities are finals, with lunch time at the commons a close second.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSuEccEYvaE

I believe North American universities have become the opposite of what they are supposed to be. Universities should encourage debate instead of censoring speech and opinion.

Poli-sci syllabus slams Trump as 'white supremacist'

--A syllabus for a political science course at California State University-Dominguez Hills blasted President Trump as a "white supremacist," "failed businessman," "orange reality star," and much more.

--An anonymous student enrolled in the course told Campus Reform that while they have had liberal professors in the past, they have seen "nothing to the extent of this."

A California State University-Dominguez Hills lecturer recently used her political science course syllabus to assert that President Trump was elected by “appealing to hatred and bigotry,” even labeling him a “white supremacist.”

Dr. Brooke Mascagni included the language in her syllabus for an “American Political Instituions” course, which is worth three credit hours at the California institution.

“The President of the United States won the 2016 election by appealing to hatred and bigotry,” the syllabus declares, according to images obtained by Campus Reform, adding that “just about everyday, a new scandal breaks or evidence of corruption emerges.”

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10457