Professor John Ellis of UC-Santa Cruz: ‘Higher Ed Has Become a Threat to America’
“Once an indispensable support of our advanced society, academia has become a cancer metastasizing through its vital organs.”
John Ellis is a professor emeritus of German literature. He argues that higher education has been completely taken over by radical leftists who are using our colleges to promote an ideology rather than educate people.
He writes at the Wall Street Journal:
Higher Ed Has Become a Threat to America
America faces a formidable range of calamities: crime out of control, borders in chaos by design, children poorly educated while sexualized and politicized against parental opposition, unconstitutional censorship, a press that does government PR rather than oversight, our institutions and corporations debased in the name of “diversity, equity and inclusion”—and more. To these has been added an outbreak of virulent antisemitism.
Every one of these degradations can be traced wholly or in large part to a single source: the corruption of higher education by radical political activists.
Children’s test scores have plummeted because college education departments train teachers to prioritize “social justice” over education. Censorship started with one-party campuses shutting down conservative voices. The coddling of criminals originated with academia’s devotion to Michel Foucault’s idea that criminals are victims, not victimizers. The drive to separate children from their parents begins in longstanding campus contempt for the suburban home and nuclear family. Radicalized college journalism departments promote far-left advocacy. Open borders reflect pro-globalism and anti-nation state sentiment among radical professors. DEI started as a campus ruse to justify racial quotas. Campus antisemitism grew out of ideologies like “anticolonialism,” “anticapitalism” and “intersectionality.”
Never have college campuses exerted so great or so destructive an influence. Once an indispensable support of our advanced society, academia has become a cancer metastasizing through its vital organs. The radical left is the cause, most obviously through the one-party campuses having graduated an entire generation of young Americans indoctrinated with their ideas.
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We already know all this. What is the point of repeating it?
And, to put his tenure where his moth is, he resigned. Right ?
To summarize, 50 years ago most schools taught one “how” to think. Now just just teach “what” to think.
Surprising to hear any conservative voices at all from UCSC. Welcome to the booby hatch. UCSC didn’t even give students grades few years back. Its famous for biggest 420 day weed festival in CA.
John Ellis sounds more like Victor Davis Hanson at Stanford.
Let’s take two hypothetical 18-yr-old Californians.
One spends 4-5 years, attends UC-AnyOfThem.
The other one spends 4-5 years in Korea or Japan or Taiwan or Singapore or Thailand…. splitting time between mastering the language and working as au pair or ESL teacher or whatever.
Now — in 5 years, which one is going to have had the more interesting life? and future?
Do google image search for UCSC 420 day. Its biggest campus event of year.