How Woke Transformation Grinds Forward in Higher Education. The Left has created a ratchet to move campus culture in a single direction.

James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | August 9, 2023 | Alexander Riley

[karpov]

Institutional change typically happens slowly and in ways that are difficult to see from a distance. Over the past several decades, institutions of higher education have been steadily adopting more and more ideas and practices destined—as those proposing the changes admit—to transform them, the goal being greater diversity, inclusion, and equity, or DIE.

A view of the university as a site for radical moral and political propagandizing is getting stronger every day, steadily erasing the traditional view that the mission of higher education is the pursuit of objective truth. Every day, we get stories of how this transformation is operating at the administrative level. But how does this look on the ground? Much of the change is happening at what we sociologists call the micro-level. Rules, structures, and norms are transformed, to be sure, but they take effect in the actions of individuals in empirical situations.

Here are a few examples from my own experience.

As DIE’s impact on admissions and curricula is felt, one of the effects is seen in the level of outspoken commitment to DIE ideology by students. Students have become significantly more activist on this in recent years, and the radicals now have the whole DIE apparatus to mobilize.

Over the past few years, I have had several occasions to meet with department chairs or deans to discuss the complaints of students about classroom readings and lectures on topics that were too much to bear for those of the Woke faith. Two of the topics that predictably generate student unhappiness (a portion of which gets translated into formal complaints) are feminist thinking about “the patriarchy” and the concept of “structural or systemic racism.”

Feminist thought challenges the very notion of any meaningful biological differences between men and women.

[Brian Griffin]

Universities have been infected with leftists even before I was born about 65 years ago.

[dfwgator]

Universities were the first institutions the Cultural Marxists conquered, on their way to conquering the rest of them.

[Brian Griffin]

Higher educational institutions should be required to co-sign new money federal student loans and secure them by financial instruments and real estate.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "How Woke Transformation Grinds Forward in Higher Education. The Left has created a ratchet to move campus culture in a single direction."

One observes that "woke transformation" which touts "diversity" only allows "a single direction." Postmodern, progressive idiocy coupled to old-fashioned fascism.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The less faith that people have in God, the more unhappy they are. When you put your faith in fellow man, you will always be disappointed.

[nwrep]

Seriously. The article is laughably late.