# 1 - WISDOM FROM THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS

 # 1 - WISDOM FROM THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOST.COM - MON. 11-16-2020

EXCERPTS FROM THE MONTH OF FEB. 2020 - 917-551-6770  -

 

"Diversity" on Campus

    Social Justice Education in America is a description, not a denunciation. We analyzed some sixty colleges and universities across the country, ranging from large research universities to small colleges, in an effort to document how pervasive social justice education has become.

 

Some colleges come right out and put "social justice" in their mission statements.

 

1. Antioch University-Los Angeles 'maintains a historic commitment to social justice and common good.

 

2. Evergreen State College - no surprise - dedicates itself to "social justice."

 

3. San Francisco State University goes one better with an "unwavering commitment to social justice."

 

    But as our report notes, many colleges and universities put their missional embrace of social justice in more specific terms.

 

    Eastern Kentucky University devotes itself to "the inclusion and celebration of diverse people and ideas. "Other universities - the University of Montana, the University of Alabama, the University of Washington - devote themselves to making "global citizens." These are all chords on the social justice harp.

 

    One way in which colleges put these mission statements into action is the adoption of new general education requirements.Students at Arizona State University can meet their "diversity" requirement by taking "Theory and Practice of Social Justice and Human Rights."

    Twenty-eight of the sixty institutions we studied have a plainly-labeled "diversity" requirement, with apparently no understanding that diversity is a political ideology not a dimension of liberal learning.

The report itself is lengthy, detailed, and full of rigorous original research in the hallowed NAS tradition. These are a few details to whet your appetite for the main course. In reading the report you will learn about:

 

a) curricular loopholes that allow students to use 1 social justice course to fill multiple requirements. 

b) the emergence of pseudo-disciplines (identity group studies, gender, studies, sustainability, etc.

c) bizarre mutations such as "social justice mathematics;"

d) social justice administrators;

e) burgeoning social justice bureaucracies;

f)  social justice dormitories; and 

g) dizzying expansion of the on-campus social justice jobs market.

 

George H. Kubeck

    

In my opinion and relating to Founding Father Alexander Hamilton: "Communist/Marxist/Nazi/Socialist vocabulary is strange and  alien to American beliefs and common sense."