Posted on 09/12/2018 6:07:12 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Many professors cannot resist the temptation to smuggle their personal beliefs into the courses they teach. As long as those beliefs are “progressive,” there is little chance that higher-ups in their departments or top administrators will try to rein them in. For example, engineering has been infiltrated by activists who are concerned about social justice concerns, not just how to best design objects for performance and safety, as Michigan State professor Indrek Wichman pointed out.
A recent article published on Inside Higher Ed, “B-Schools That Don’t Boast About Billionaire Alumni,” similarly informs us that some business school professors have decided that they should teach students about their own social justice concerns, not just how to best manage an enterprise.
Writer Marjorie Valbrun explains that increasing academic concern about income inequality is justified because, in the words of the leftist Institute for Policy Studies, income inequality “has been growing markedly by every major statistical measure for some 30 years.”
In fact, there is good reason to doubt that income in the United States is distributed much differently that in other major industrial nations. Former Senator Phil Gramm and John Early (former commissioner in the Bureau of Labor Statistics) explained in this August 9 Wall Street Journal article (subscriber content) that the U.S. only appears to have a high concentration of wealth because the statistics we submit to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development underreport income transfers.
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Yeah, sometimes they emphasize the company’s obligations to the “stakeholders”, which is a far more encompassing and socially aware term than “shareholders.”
Some thing any body that has been paying attention all ready knew.
Lessay you really, realllly knew your stuff about business:
WHY would you be at a business school, teaching concepts about business..?
Aren’t biz schools staffed by people who were interested in business, but couldn’t hack it..?
Yep. I met with one of my old mechanical engineering professors this past summer. He is now the Dean of the department. In our conversation and reminiscing about the old days, he told me to be thankful that I went thru when I did. I asked: “Why’s that?” He showed me the new undergraduate engineering curriculum, and it had a full 18 semester-hours of additional “social justice” classes!!!! The engineering department initially protested it, but in order to keep their national accreditation, they had to add them. Basically, they were blackmailed into adding them. To accommodate the additional 18 hours of brainwashing, they had to cut some of the technical electives that would have been taught instead.
I asked him if all the “advanced basket weaver” curriculums had to add 18 semester-hours of basic engineering and he said; “No. They don’t. They’d never pass.” IF left unchecked, the insane Left will totally destroy this country. They are the BORG of this century.
It’s going to invade and consume every single thing.
Because it (Social Justice BS) is Marxist. Marxism is a combative, expansionist ideology.
Yes, and it’s in the sciences too. Science is no longer the unbiased pursuit of truth - it’s the slanted, deliberate promotion of leftist ideology.
It’s basically meticulously crafted organic malicious code that effectively exploits certain inherent weaknesses of the human psyche, and it’s being spread by a bunch of zombified humans that function as a cult.
In the end, the malicious code is going to have to be utterly eradicated, or it will continue to propagate, as it has done since it was conceived.
Hence their continuous and tiresome virtue signaling.
That is why Marxism and its odd offspring and successor, Post-Modernism, is such a powerful religion to them.
I’m wondering if colleges also have to “adjust” grading curves to accommodate minorities who want to be an Engineer, for example, but just can’t pass the same courses white students pass. At one time in the last 9 years, elhi schools were required to punish as many white students as minority students regardless of the situation.
Here in Indiana the State Bar Association is meeting this month to determine whether to make “diversity” classes a mandatory part of a attorney’s continuing legal education. I kid you not.
I already see it with the recent engineering graduates. It is now impossible to have even a technical disagreement with these snowflake engineers, even if other experienced engineers and manufacturer’s try to explain how something works. Mansplaining. Oppression. Run to HR because the little feelings got hurt.
I would like to work a few more years in the profession, but with all this nonsense approaching the level of a Maoist struggle session, I’m about ready to hang it up and go back to my first job out of high school - dishwasher.
As Tucker stated...
“Diversity is NOT our strength”
By self definition, it is un-American and divisive.
“E pluribus unum” = From many, One
America was always known as the “melting pot” - immigrants would embrace America including its Judeo-Christian morals & values
Absolutely, greed and envy were the exact weaknesses I had in mind.
Marxism, more than any other ideology, also appeals to stark raving mad control freaks. Lefties always envision a Utopia in which humanity is brought under one yoke and “guided” in its thoughts, beliefs, and deeds.
And Utopia, in the end, is just a synonym for Hell.
But I bet they still hit them up for large donations all the time.
Yep. A boot stomping a human face forever.
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