The American Political Science Association Cancels the Claremont Institute

James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | October 13, 2021 | Scott Yenor

[karpov]

Universities have been going woke across the country. This involves administrators pushing “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” policies in hiring practices, student life, and curricula.

But if they choose to, academic departments can actually be bastions of resistance to the DEI fervor. Many departments are connected to professional standards that limit their adherence to DEI ideology. Nursing schools must train nurses, which limits, but does not stop, their ability to adopt DEI. In contrast, DEI ideologues have totally captured sociology (among other disciplines).

Professional organizations are straws in the wind for the future direction of the university. If they maintain professional standards in peer review, for example, they can help maintain some integrity against DEI on campus. If they do not maintain professional standards, then the academy as a whole is less likely to resist the woke agenda.

The American Political Science Association (APSA) has long been a professional outfit that makes for a relatively comfortable home for conservatives. Unlike sociology or gender studies, political science is more inclined to stay “real” as it stays connected to the actual workings of politics.

Unfortunately, APSA’s recent poor treatment of one of its “related groups,” the Claremont Institute, reveals that the political science profession has also succumbed to woke pressures.

For a long time, APSA’s national meetings left significant space for those who dissent from predominant narratives and approaches. And APSA says it remains committed to open inquiry and free speech. Article 1, Section 3 of APSA’s bylaws contains strong support for “academic freedom, freedom of expression, and the equal protection of members and other political scientists.” It also “encourages individual members in their . . . public engagement to address significant political and social problems and policies, even when these problems and policies are controversial and subject to partisan discourse.”

[blueunicorn6]

Those dirty bounders!

[WMarshal]

Once academia pushes out every patriot and ends every relationship to patriotic organizations they will crater cause no one will be left to put a break on the crazies. I think that we have already reached that point.

It is time to fire everyone and academia and rebuild from the ground up.

[sauropod]

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