In 2015, we were the first to report on a 14-page Demand List issued by ABUSUA, Oberlin College’s Black Students Union, including faculty hiring mandates and tenure promotions for black faculty, as well as a demand to “deconstruct imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, and a cissexist heteropatriarchy” and to divest...
For anyone not in the know, a number of reporters at the New York Times are freaking out because the paper published an op-ed by Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas.
This is the consequence of campus social justice warriors entering the workforce.
I’ve written well over 1,500 posts for Legal Insurrection over the years, and one that stands out in my memory as a heartbreaking emblem of “woke” culture was a post about a school in New York City that was teaching little K-8 white children they were “born racist.” Children were coming...
The social justice agenda is now slowly working its way into the study of law.
Campus Reform reports:
Profs promote environmental law textbook with ‘food justice’ updates
Professors at the University of New Mexico are lobbying for students to buy the latest version of a law textbook that has been updated to advocate for...
I wish I could say this is a parody, folks, but it’s not.
Marvel Comics is introducing a team of superheroes based on social justice warrior culture, and they are not making fun of it. They’re celebrating it.
The left’s agenda continues to eclipse the pursuit of actual scholarship.
Campus Reform reports:
Students earn credit for ‘organizing’ for ‘social justice’
The application for a new “grassroots community organizing” course at...
Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is currently polling at 0.3 percent in the Real Clear Politics average of polls, and desperate times call for desperate measures.
Why waste money on tuition if your clear goal in life is to be an activist?
The College Fix reports:
University of Washington law students demand nebulous ‘racial justice’
First-year law students at the University of Washington interrupted a lecture by the dean of the School of Law last week to highlight the “erasure”...
If John has ten dollars, and I take eight of his dollars and give them to Jane, how much less oppressed is Jane?
The College Fix reports:
Math professor soliciting ideas for ‘#socialjustice’ textbook content
A math professor recently involved in a political controversy in academic mathematics has issued a call for “ideas” on...
The left’s agenda is infiltrating the curriculum at some schools. Eventually, it will replace it.
Campus Reform reports:
UCSB unveils new ‘social justice’ & ‘inequality’ focused history minor
The University of California, Santa Barbara history department has introduced a new minor in “Poverty, Inequality, and Social Justice,”...
The report suggests that social justice has now been embedded in the curriculum in many schools.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Social justice education requirements cost college students $10B per year
As many college graduates continue to struggle with their student loan debt, a new report reveals that mandatory social justice curriculum classes share some...
Critics claim this is really just about advancing the left’s political agenda.
Campus Reform reports:
UCLA’s ‘Storytelling for Social Justice’ pushes ‘unsubstantiated’, ‘one-sided’ claims, critic says
A course at the University of California-Los Angeles promises to educate students in the ways of “storytelling for social...
Just days ago, Syracuse University’s chancellor said the school believes recent racist activity on campus was a hoax.
USA Today reports:
Arrest made at Syracuse, chancellor bows to student demands as racist hate incidents continue
The Syracuse Police Department has made an arrest after a series of new graffiti markings were discovered on school...
Doesn’t it seem like Women and Gender Studies Departments are driving much of the left wing agenda on college campuses?
The College Fix reports:
Rutgers’ Women and Gender Studies Department to offer new social justice track
The Rutgers University Women and Gender Studies Department will offer a new five-year track in “Feminist Practices for...
Remember Marc Lamont Hill? He used to be a CNN contributor. He recently gave a speech at St. Olaf College in which he called for an end to nation states and prisons.
Campus Reform reports:
EXCLUSIVE: In campus speech, fired CNN commentator advocates ‘dismantling’ of nation states, ‘abolition’ of prisons
Nation-states and prisons should...
Diversity is more important than scholarship to many people in higher education. This is just another example of the fact.
Campus Reform reports:
Ivy League schools drop ‘cuturally biased’ standardized test requirement
Two Ivy League universities have announced that many graduate programs will no longer require the traditional standardized Graduate Records Examination testing requirements...
We have covered the rapid deterioration of public health conditions in California, especially in the feces-strewn streets of San Francisco.
Instead of focusing on issues of sanitation, job creation, or at least ensuring there are more high school students than drug addicts in the city, activists have chosen to honor Swedish “climate...
