Sanitizing Higher Education [Ministry of Truth]

American Thinker ^ | May 11, 2015 | Robert Weissberg

[Cincinatus' Wife]

"...............Though I did not teach at the U of I when this survey was conducted, I’m pretty sure that the reactions of these offended students is accurate for the simple reason that many blacks and Hispanics are in over their heads. Beginning in 1975 I regularly taught classes with affirmative action blacks (the university at that time identified them) and their academic deficiencies were obvious (but not true for Asians). Their classroom comments were often uninformed and thus treated with disdain judged by the facial reactions of their smarter classmates. Their grades were also often dismal.

Now, how is all this thinly veiled hostility to be fixed (and here I assume that most of this effort will focus on black and Hispanic students given the overall success of Asians)? The report calls for such remediations as more faculty training to facilitate less hostile class interactions, lessons for instructors on how to avoid stereotypes, increasing self-awareness of prejudice among white professors, adding racial bias items to teacher evaluation forms and, perhaps most relevant for faculty, including “diversity engagement” in the tenure and promotion decisions (i.e.,so tenure will not require following the party line).

For students, there would be a General Education requirement about race, white privilege, and inequality in the United States plus a course about people of color in both Western and Non-western settings. Then increase the opportunities for inter-group dialogue and team building plus more workshops on cultural competency and tolerance and, perhaps most frightening, create mechanisms for students to report perceived racial micro-aggressions (emphasis added). That is, students will be enlisted as Politically Correct spies. One can only be reminded of the Spanish Inquisition’s efforts to stamp out the slightest traces of religious heresy. The list is a truly breathtaking compendium of Stalinist measures to impose a political orthodoxy. ........."

[Cincinatus' Wife]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3288454/posts

Indoctrination is rampant in liberal education, liberal churches, liberal government and liberal journalism.

The apple is growing on a diseased tree.

But people are beginning to recognize it (or at least pulling back, as it is causing a backlash).

[Tax-chick]

Who would hire such employees even with a University of Illinois degree?

Businesses who are required to meet a "diversity" quota or be sued, that's who.

[Fred Hayek]

Yet the atheist Soviet Union left even bigger environmental scars. The destruction of the Aral Sea and the fact that the Tula River still “glows in the dark” are just two examples. The air in Chengdu, China is still like smoking several packs per day.