Is their a Leftist Agenda in Academia?

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University teaches white employees how to overcome the ‘discomfort’ of being white

University of Michigan training session used ‘Privileged Identity Exploration Model’

A two-day professional development conference held recently at the University of Michigan included a training session that aimed to help white employees deal with their “whiteness” so they could become better equipped to fight for social justice causes, according to organizers.

Participants who took part in the “Conversations on Whiteness” session, held December 5 during the university’s Student Life Professional Development Conference, were taught to “recognize the difficulties they face when talking about social justice issues related to their White identity, explore this discomfort, and devise ways to work through it,” the university’s website states.

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/40145/

‘White-Informed Civility’ Is the Latest Target in the Campus Wars
The rules of collegiate debate are also coming under attack as racist and patriarchal.

From the land that irony forgot—which earlier gave us microaggressions and trigger warnings—comes a new and surprising movement, this time to combat civility. Civility, you see, is a manifestation of the white patriarchy. Spearheading this campaign are a duo of University of Northern Iowa professors, who assert that “civility within higher education is a racialized, rather than universal, norm.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-info ... 1514938758

College encourages students to report signs ‘color-coded pink for girls and blue for boys’ as bias incident

School asks that students report ‘bias incidents’ to college authorities

Williams College’s Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity advises students to report signs “color-coded pink for girls and blue for boys” as “bias incidents,” claiming such signage is “abhorrent and intolerable.”

It’s one example of nearly two-dozen possible bias incidents listed as part of Williams College’s anti-bias “Speak Up” program. Additional potential bias incidents listed include name-calling, “avoiding or excluding others,” stereotyping and calling someone or something “gay.”

Other offenses? “Telling someone they have to wear pants because they are male and a skirt because they are female” and “imitating someone’s cultural norm or practice,” according to the Speak Up program.

The reporting guide clarifies that bias-related incidents, “while abhorrent and intolerable,” are not crimes. Students are advised that they can report bias incidents to Campus Safety and Security as well as the health center and dean of students, among other options.

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/40955/

Nowadays, all people learn from college is that rape is bad.

GOP rejects ‘critical thinking’ skills. Really.

Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America (Yes, Really)

Right-wingers are less intelligent than left wingers, says study

"I love the poorly educated!"
Donald Trump

Apparently education is a "Leftist Agenda".

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All of that becomes super-easy pickings if we're pretending that it's only right-wing evangelicals who are saying this.

I think guys like Bret Weinstein, Jordan Peterson, Gad Saad, Jonathan Haidt etc (who are the polar opposite of that) do a great job of demonstrating that there are serious problems that need to be addressed and Jonathan Haidt even more than the rest has been orchestrating people for major change in this regard having now 1400+ Phd academics across the globe who've joined his heterodoxacademy.org.

Conservatives are free to start their own university if they want. Some of them probably already have.

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