Posted on 05/29/2023 6:27:57 AM PDT by karpov
An historic battle is waging over the future of higher education in the U.S. And the stakes couldn’t be higher. The presenting issues are critical social justice theory and freedom of speech. Back in the early 1980s, Jesse Jackson and Stanford University student protestors raised a few eyebrows when they chanted, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go,” though many folks just shrugged it off as juvenile exuberance. Well, 40 years later, no one’s shrugging it off. Jackson’s catchy little chant is now the relentless drumbeat of mainstream academia.
How did this radical transformation occur? What’s behind it? As the Martin Center has explained:
Critical Social Justice (CSJ) begins with criticism or critical analysis, where activists unmask the supposed hidden realities of the world. America seems to be a place of equal opportunity or fair admissions, but through this critical lens, it is viewed as various structures of oppression built by the privileged to keep victim groups weak and unequal. […] Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is the mechanism whereby CSJ is applied to institutions like universities.
Thanks to the spread of these ideologies, gone is that pillar of Western thought that every individual is unique and should be valued as an individual. Instead, everyone is now seen as a product of race, gender, sexual orientation, economic status, etc. Diversity is reduced to the balancing of various victim groups.
CSJ has already been institutionalized in most universities in the form of DEI offices, which are firmly embedded in the educational bureaucracy. These DEI administrators have broad influence over university life and act as speech police. The Heritage Foundation reports that the average major university now employs 45 DEI administrators. Ideological loyalty oaths are required of faculty at many universities.
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Jesse Helms was correct when he stated, “If North Carolina needs a state zoo, we can just put a fence around Chapel Hill.”
I live in Chapel Hill and it is a zoo.
As long as whites are afraid of race they will continue to pound the West and ultimately destroy it all.
Alumni of private colleges have made substantial investments both in time, tuition, and donations to these schools. These investments were to foster and continue the reputation of these institutions to the benefit of all alumni, past, present, and future. The Woke administrations, who took their positions with agendas for personal aggrandizement amongst their Woke peers have breached their fiduciary duty to these institutions.
They should be fired, sued, and held personally financially liable for the damage they have caused.
W&L stands for Washington and Lee, NOT WOKE AND LIBERAL.
Look up the top rank academics -- president or chancellor and assistants -- because these days the salaries and "bennies" are available to be seen on line, send a very pleasant response to the individual(s) soliciting saying that President So-in-So, Dean Such-and-Such and Head Coach Sis-Boom-Bah are paid hugely with "X," and then suggest our monthly income, being less than "X" does not warrant sending donations in order that these fattened academic cats get their wealth from "lessers." Be sure to inquire from the individual doing the solicitation whether or not they are getting paid like their bosses, and, if not, why not?
Most interestingly, the letters have stopped coming. Try it out. Inquiries can be fun.
Interestingly, this worked a couple of time with the "booth" fund raiser types who did not know that their sometimes "volunteer" and "charitable" work was funneling donations to charitable CEOs with hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary.
In my day, W&L students were a decidedly conservative crew. The College Republicans there were numerous and strong; the Democrats were few and ineffectual. I suspect most alumni are disgusted by the university’s embrace of DEI, and many have withdrawn their support. I fear that these lost alumni contributions have been more than replaced by donations from liberal foundations, many of which possess staggering wealth and are hell-bent on political and social transformation. For such as these, with billions at their disposal, a donation of $10 or $20 million is a pittance, that they can afford to do over and over again, for which university administrators, already leftist in their black hearts, are more than ready to turn their institutions inside out.
Thank you for posting this article. If I had one hill to die upon at this point in the decline of Western Civ, it would be to fight for the 1st Amendment, and all of its enumerated freedoms, on the campus of every American college, large or small, and if I had enough troops, to take that issue to the grammar schools, middle schools and high schools, and finally to the nursery schools where children now recite hymns to the non-sentient earth!
Not to mention the endowments. W&L: $2 Billion. Chapel Hill: $5 BILLION. Alumni donations over the years plus insanely high tuition rates subsidized by Government loans have given the Wokes a huge war chest that can easily compensate for reduced Alumni contributions.
Given the Federal involvement in these institutions, I would like to see Congress demand a complete audit and publicize it.
One radical was hired, moved into a management/hiring positions and then ONLY hired "one of his own." Those then followed the same path, only hiring "their own" - and the result is entire departments that are hardened Commies.
If I ever gave money to a university, it would come with the stipulation that it must be spent in ten years or less. No endowment, which only enables the institution to kiss off its stakeholders.
Excellent point.
The administrations of W&L and other universities have securely barricaded themselves in the cockpit with the protection of other people’s money and are crashing the planes.
W&L is private so not sure what you mean?
With a $2 Billion endowment, $70K tuition, they are operating independent of alumni or stakeholder influence. They have hijacked the institution; I am sure that they were not retained to dismantle the heritage of the school.
Additionally, they are accepting Federal Student Loan money. they take it in and add it to their war chest, leaving graduates to figure out how to pay it off. On the strength of that, I believe there should be a Federal audit of all University activities. What is the annual budget for DEI?
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