Social Justice Teaching Has Invaded Business Schools

James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | George Leef

[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.

[robel]

Leftists know that controlling education is by far the biggest bang for the buck. It’s been paying off as the indoctrinated graduates are filling positions of influence. Why wouldn’t they ramp it up even more. As long as people still pay big bucks to have their chidren programmed with leftist ideology, they’ll reap the benefits.

[poconopundit]

H. L. Mencken:

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

[arthurus]

is distributed much differently that in other major

Differently that???
Probably meant to use "than" but that than would be wrong, too. From.

[JoeFromSidney]

No necessarily. I was an adjunct prof in a business school. I taught the introductory course in management. I had no interest in running a business, but had run various sized organizations in the Air Force. Same principles, just different environment.

[JoeFromSidney]

No necessarily. I was an adjunct prof in a business school. I taught the introductory course in management. I had no interest in running a business, but had run various sized organizations in the Air Force. Same principles, just different environment.

[jimfree]

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.”

The woman probably has little understanding of statistics, even if she is skilled in the math. As a business process analyst, I never trust scary metrics in isolation. If inequality is too high, how much inequality is okay and why? What is the trend of real income?