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Indoctrination Nation: Northwestern University is going to require all students to complete a course in diversity before they can graduate. Have our institutions of higher learning taken leave of their senses?
According to a Northwestern student reporting in The College Fix, the school is "busy implementing an ambitious program for diversity on campus" on order to establish a "Social Inequalities and Diversities" requirement that "all students will have to complete before they graduate."
Once this course is completed, "students will be able to 'expand their ability to think critically,' 'recognize their own positionality in systems of inequality,' and 'engage in self-reflection on power and privilege.'"
And what of math, science, literature and a bit of history? Aren't the instruction of those and a few more academic courses the reason colleges and universities exist?
Higher education should be about teaching young Americans how to think, not what to think.
Yet campus life is becoming more about re-educating than educating. Presidents and chancellors and deans and faculty increasingly see themselves as shapers of thought, not conduits of knowledge.
Were Northwestern alone in its effort to manipulate exploitable minds, the appropriate response would be to be more infuriated than alarmed. But that rabid dog has escaped its cage.
In 2007, for instance, the University of California-San Diego hired its first chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion. For this position, the state pays $250,000 a year plus benefits.
Three years later, Heather Mac Donald writes in the spring 2013 issue of City Journal, "UC San Francisco appointed its first vice chancellor of diversity and outreach — with the starting salary of $270,000."
This pseudo-schooling isn't limited to the Left Coast or a school in Barack Obama's hometown. Nor is it confined to students. Teachers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute were told a few years ago that promotions and tenure were going to be based on their participation in diversity initiatives, while the University of Louisville has held a "White Privilege Forum," which delved into the matter of "white persons" running and/or owning "nearly half of the United States."
Parents spend hundreds of thousands of dollars — more than $45,000 year for undergraduates at Northwestern — to school their kids in our finest institutions. Indoctrination into leftist politics should not be a part of the instruction.
According to a Northwestern student reporting in The College Fix, the school is "busy implementing an ambitious program for diversity on campus" on order to establish a "Social Inequalities and Diversities" requirement that "all students will have to complete before they graduate."
Once this course is completed, "students will be able to 'expand their ability to think critically,' 'recognize their own positionality in systems of inequality,' and 'engage in self-reflection on power and privilege.'"
And what of math, science, literature and a bit of history? Aren't the instruction of those and a few more academic courses the reason colleges and universities exist?
Higher education should be about teaching young Americans how to think, not what to think.
Yet campus life is becoming more about re-educating than educating. Presidents and chancellors and deans and faculty increasingly see themselves as shapers of thought, not conduits of knowledge.
Were Northwestern alone in its effort to manipulate exploitable minds, the appropriate response would be to be more infuriated than alarmed. But that rabid dog has escaped its cage.
In 2007, for instance, the University of California-San Diego hired its first chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion. For this position, the state pays $250,000 a year plus benefits.
Three years later, Heather Mac Donald writes in the spring 2013 issue of City Journal, "UC San Francisco appointed its first vice chancellor of diversity and outreach — with the starting salary of $270,000."
This pseudo-schooling isn't limited to the Left Coast or a school in Barack Obama's hometown. Nor is it confined to students. Teachers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute were told a few years ago that promotions and tenure were going to be based on their participation in diversity initiatives, while the University of Louisville has held a "White Privilege Forum," which delved into the matter of "white persons" running and/or owning "nearly half of the United States."
Parents spend hundreds of thousands of dollars — more than $45,000 year for undergraduates at Northwestern — to school their kids in our finest institutions. Indoctrination into leftist politics should not be a part of the instruction.
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