“Create a crisis.” That call is made in a new campaign sponsored by the American Association of University Professors to force “colleges to drop their contracts with ICE’s key corporate enablers.” Despite years of criticism over the purging of faculty ranks of conservatives and libertarians, university professors continue to double down on far-left ideology that is now an orthodoxy in higher education.
I previously wrote about the AAUP’s ideological shift in my book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage. After that book, the AAUP then selected Todd Wolfson, a far-left activist, as its new president.
Wolfson ran on the pledge to make AAUP a “fighting organization” for social change. After his selection, Wolfson has called Trump supporters “fascists” and demanded boycotts of Israel.
Given that history, it was little surprise to see the AAUP’s sponsorship of this campaign, as reported by the College Fix.
The campaign is also funded by Coefficient Giving, associated with liberal billionaire Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna. They have been criticized for reportedly funding groups pushing defund police and other radical agendas.
AAUP joined this campaign with Young Democratic Socialists of America, Sunrise Movement, and the Workplace Justice Lab at Rutgers University. It includes a toolkit instructing students to “create a crisis for university admin through an escalating campaign.”
The campaign seeks to organize to combat the “Trump regime” and its “terrorism”: “When students and workers join together in action, we can force our schools to stop funding and normalizing ICE collaborators and take down the whole regime.”
They are targeting companies such as Enterprise, Flock, ICE Air Carriers, Hilton, and Target.
The campaign states further that “ICE, and the Trump regime generally, cannot function without the consent and collaboration of the business world. Breaking companies from ICE is the central axis for generating enough leverage to stop the regime’s terrorization campaign.”
So university professors are funding a campaign that actively seeks to create a crisis on campuses. It takes a position as an organization that immigration enforcement is a form of terrorism. The silence among faculty is deafening. Rather than objecting that the AAUP should focus on issues related to academic freedom and protections for its members, there have been virtually no objections to the organization’s ideological agenda.
It is evidence of the new orthodoxy in higher education and the refusal of administrators and faculty to make any meaningful change in their intolerance for opposing views.
Many departments no longer have a single Republican faculty member in this academic echo chamber.
A Georgetown study found that only 9% of law school professors at the top 50 law schools identify as conservative — almost identical to the percentage of Trump voters in the new poll.
There is little evidence that faculty members are interested in changing this culture or creating greater diversity at schools. In places like North Carolina State University, a study found that Democrats outnumbered Republicans 20 to 1.
Yale University has finally achieved the academic version of Nirvana, a state of perfect peace and enlightenment. A recent study found that the faculty had finally purged every Republican donor from its ranks.
According to a recent report from the Buckley Institute, there is now not a single Republican found across 27 of 43 departments at Yale University. In a nation roughly evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats (with a slight advantage to the GOP), only 3 percent are Republicans across all Yale departments.
The hostility to opposing views is impacting our students. A new study offers additional data on this problem, showing that almost 90% of students misrepresent their views in class and on assignments to satisfy faculty by adopting more liberal views.
In the meantime, the small number of dissenting faculty have no real voice, particularly among legal academics. I have previously written about the similar liberal agenda of the American Bar Association despite plunging membership among lawyers. The ABA now represents just 17 percent of the bar.
The AAUP currently has only 44,000 to 45,00 members. There are an estimated 1.5 million university and college professors in the United States. Both the ABA and AAUP have become captive to the most ideological elements of their membership. That agenda has overwhelmed the original apolitical mission of these groups.
This orthodoxy will continue until donors refuse to support universities that do not take meaningful action to restore diversity in the faculty ranks. The AAUP’s radical agenda is only the latest example of how higher education remains a hardened ideological silo. These faculty members have shown again and again that they are unwilling to change this culture. Only donors can force reform by cutting off their contributions or directing them to schools with a proven commitment to intellectual diversity.
MAGAs are the purest evil the world has ever seen.
Danny, please use your words that accurately define evil and then define the top 2 to 5 issues you have with “MAGAs” that you believe are evil.
People who believe America is evil will naturally believe any desire to improve Americans’ lives is evil. That’s where Danny is coming from: a pathological hatred for America.
OT
Liberals are deranged by the strategically hyperbolic rhetoric “A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight.”
Liberals revered the historical fact of the abject mayhem and murder of “Sherman’s March to the Sea.”
One magniloquence, the other abject malevolence.
Turley sure goes to a lot of trouble to enrage MAGA with disingenuous narratives. Sure, it sells books. But at what cost? His credibility? Seems like it.
George
But at what cost? His credibility? Seems like it.
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Seems you could be wrong. Most of all when so many folks catch you lying.
You have none. (credibility)
Professor Turley, I thought universities are making a big mistake with biased hiring. But MAGA was different then. It sounded like a populist movement focused on our rights at home, sanity on the border and avoiding foreign entanglements. The fact that conservatives do not push back on it becoming the means for the President to act out his emotional problems on innocent people around the world calls into question their appropriateness for any post that requires a level of consistency and a concern for people.
You attempted to be clever, but your tactic is too shopworn and we see right through it. Don’t use Turley’s blog to try and muster up alienation to the Trump administration. The president is not acting out his emotional problems, you are.
Free money to go to school is the lynchpin that has created the far left woke culture dominating our higher education and by training woke leaning grade school teachers, our entire system from kindergarten through graduate schools. Free money is behind the escalation in education costs and ballooning loans that can’t be repaid because too often the underlying education has little value in the real world. Loan forgiveness does nothing to solve the real problem and just adds fuel to the fire. The real problem is that there is a third party to the loans at origination in addition to the lender and student borrower, which is the schools who currently suffer no consequences for bad loans. These schools have every incentive to raise prices and push the costs onto the student borrowers who are left holding the bag years down the road. A longer term solution is to put schools on the hook for some or part of defaulted loans. This will force them at the front end to decide which majors and students are likely to be able to repay (schools are better able to decide than green students and if on the hook motivated). Schools and majors with proven track records of repayments will thrive while the market will drive others into bankruptcy. Grievance majors would be discouraged (unable to get schools to approve loans), or even eliminated. Put a cost to the schools and that pin once pulled will bring the woke edifice crashing down.
Very good comment Otiose. You’re exactly right to put the spotlight on the third party at origination. The whole machine only works because schools get all the upside and none of the downside. They harvest tuition up front, backed by federal guarantees, then walk away while the kid and the taxpayer eat the risk. If you forced schools to carry real skin in the game on defaults, suddenly “grievance studies for everyone” would not look so noble. Majors and programs would have to pass one basic test: can this education plausibly support the debt you’re asking an 18‑year‑old to sign for. Until that happens, “free money” will keep buying the same product: higher prices, softer academics, and a pipeline of indebted, ideologized graduates.
Wolfson’s book “Digital Rebellion” has an interesting title as everyone is in the middle of disruptive innovation caused by digitization worldwide. The net allows discourse among groups that have never spoken before. Wolfson’s group are social justice warriors aka robbing hoodlums (Robin Hoods). Equity demands redistribution of wealth etc and as an example the Somalis have robbed the US blind.
There are so many examples but that’s my contribution. AAUP is social justice digital media and the digital fraud Obama was the breakdown for origin of this disruption. MSM was consumed by the Digital organizers. There are worldwide Digital media hubs.
Basically AAUP is the front for global robbery.
MO
Lovely weather and the flowers are glorious.
Professor Turley is once again complaining about an institution exercising the very principle he claims to champion: free speech. If the AAUP chooses to campaign for schools to disengage from ICE contracts, is that not their prerogative? It is an exercise of their rights, plain and simple.
To make matters worse, he resorts to a lazy ‘guilt by association’ tactic by highlighting a single socialist student group, conveniently ignoring the broad coalition of other supporters. By cherry-picking this one detail to imply some ‘dastardly leftist agenda,’ Turley reveals his true intent: stoking rage and animosity toward the left to suit his role at Fox News.
He certainly has the right to be disingenuous, but his constant criticisms are in direct contradiction to his own stated philosophy on academic freedom.
oh just shut up, you little nag. Get your own blog. No one listens to you or reads your post beyond the first sentence.
And yet…you keep reading. It’s a free speech forum. You must be afraid of an opposing view. So sad.
That was not a rebuttal or effective refutation. It was blather, an abject violation of Professor Turley’s Civility Rule, and an embarrassment to its author.
Yet another completely pointless and irrelevant push piece from Turley, that serves no purpose other than to stoke the rage of the geriatric MAGA morons on this ridiculous blog. Turley is gratuitously and hypocritically stoking the very rage that he supposedly condemns in his stupid little books.
He completely destroys the validity of his own argument that AAUP is some nefarious organization that is exerting undue influence in higher education. He accurately quotes the membership of AAUP as around 45,000 people out of about 1,500,000 actual professors. In other words, 3% of professors belong to AAUP. For every AAUP member at a given institution, on average, there will be 97 who are not members, and yet somehow this handful of professors are “creating a crisis” in higher education.
Give me a break !!!!
Anyone who falls for this logic is completely bereft of the ability for independent thought.
Turley is simply pushing a nonsensical argument to stoke the rage of the MAGA mob.
Just like Pavlov’s dogs, when Turley rings the bell the same tired old geriatric regulars here come running with exactly the same tired old comments that they make every day, and then congratulate each other on their great “well said” comments in a veritable lovefest of self-gratification.
I would also point out that Turley quotes the College Fix as the source of his story today. The College Fix is a right wing organization set up by Trump’s former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for the specific purpose of undermining the public higher education system.
A while ago I noticed that Turley had simply cut and paste an article from College Fix, written by one of the editors, Dave Huber. It was a verbatim cut and paste. I emailed Huber to tell him that Turley had plagiarized his piece, and he replied that Turley was a “good friend of The College Fix” and they allowed him to simply cut and paste. Ever since then, I noticed that Turley’s articles about colleges are careful re-writes of College Fix pieces to make it look like they are not cut and paste.
So basically, Turley is a “good friend” of the College Fix, which is nothing more than an extremist right wing organization that aims to destroy public education. That tells us everything we need to know about Turley’s motivation for posting this nonsensical diatribe.
^ Another psychotic lunacy dump from the tortured soul known as Gigi ^
Advocacy is not exclusion. While Turley conflates the AAUP’s political activism with a ‘purge’ of dissent, he fails to provide evidence of actual viewpoint-based firing. In a truly free marketplace of ideas, a faculty association’s right to challenge government contracts is an exercise of the very speech rights Turley claims to champion. To label collective advocacy as a ‘purge’ is to suggest that the mere expression of one side’s values is an act of censorship against the other—a logic that would effectively silence all campus discourse.
Private universities have a constitutional right to employ professors of their choice. We the People have a constitutional right to support (and not support) universities of our choice. The challenge is having a government that represents We the People.
… as long they don’t keep their hands in taxpayers’ pockets.
The Left ruins everything it touches.
Succinctly stated and true. They take as a personal challenge.
Yes, just like it ruined racism with the civil rights movement.
You have to go back 60 years to find a counter-example haha 😂
That just proves my point.
Civil rights should be timeless and eternal, so this does not matter.
Read my comment again. This time for comprehension.
PS in today’s society it is the right that is on the front lines defending civil rights against the totalitarian left.
Gosh you’re clever, anon.
Now you said something completely accurate and profound. You probably hurt Karl Marx’s feelings. The Founders and Framers were Right, and they absolutely precluded the Left in their Constitution. The Left cannot exist in America.
Do you have a job, anon? Do your job whatever it is as well as you can at all tes. You won’t notice much else.
Turley is calling for the financial punishment of people who say things he does not like…the kind of thing a fascist might do: “Only donors can force reform by cutting off their contributions or directing them to schools with a proven commitment to intellectual diversity.”
He’s exercising his freedom of speech. Only a fascist like you claims that is something a fascist would do.
^^^^ this may be an actual child, folks.
ICE is a lawless brutal fascist goon squad. They are terrorists and murderers. They need to be opposed.
Odd, it seems ICE are the ones who are getting terrorists and murderers off our streets. https://www.dhs.gov/wow
You are quite mistaken. ICE are the terrorists and murderesses.
Naaa danny. You are wrong.
It’s like all Danny’s are dense nitwits. Just saying!
ICE arrests violent illegal migrants on anniversary of reopening VOICE program
“The roundup comes on the one-year anniversary of the reopening of ICE’s Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement office, which was launched by President Donald Trump in his first term and closed during the Biden administration.”
https://justthenews.com/government/security/exclusive-ice-arrests-violent-illegal-migrants-anniversary-reopening-voice?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=offthepress&utm_campaign=home
Numerically ICE agents have a 60x crime rate than immigrants.
Proof? Which you failed to post. I wonder why
America must vigorously prosecute “Sherman’s ICE March to the Sea.”
“Free white person(s)” was the population the American Founders codified four times.
Yes, anon, that’s worldwide and the black African slave owners sold their black slaves.
The US made slavery illegal. A 1st in human history.
These people live in the most coddled society in history; they have never known real oppression. But they want their lives to have meaning, which in itself is quite natural. So they act as if they’re being oppressed and lash out against the “system” that has given them a wealthy and peaceful life that is the envy of 99% of the world.
They see oppression everywhere, where none exists except in their own mind. They claim they are living under a fascist regime, and post claims to that end on various social media yet it is lost on them if they were living under a fascist regime they would not be allowed to post such comments.
The US runs the spectrum of socioeconomic status. What the US has is opportunity.
Stupid Question of the Day: Have 8 U.S.C. Sections 1231 and 1325 been repealed? Perhaps, as they use that naughty word “alien,” rather than “migrant.” If not, it is interesting that, apparently, at least some of those who loudly proclaim “the rule of law” in certain other contexts become the proverbial radio silence and crickets for these two rules.
Irregardless, I did your mom.
While getting my hair cut I over heard yours tell the Barber her son Anonymous, you, was a complete jerk and a know it all!
Typical lib…. They never change.
I’m unsure of your point, Russ, but more appropriately alien, migrant are correctly “undocumented foreign nationals” present domestically within US jurisdiction. Aliens and migrants are foreign nationals as are permanent residents. Undocumented as having unlawful entry, expired visas, other is illegal and must be deported within 90 days and remain in custody for that period or more. Refugees are foreign nationals as are asylees both limited by quotas. Illegal foreign nationals is what you mean? Tourists are also foreign nationals and documented.
Alien means foreign national, migrant means foreign national. Foreign national means having foreign citizenship and citizenship means allegiance. Undocumented or illegally present foreign nationals in very large numbers is a national security risk.
What’s your point?
Since the subject is illegal “migrants,” they are aliens who belong to another place.
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Merriam-Webster
alien
adjective
1a: belonging or relating to another person, place, or thing : strange
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migrant
a: a person who moves regularly in order to find work especially in harvesting crops
Migrants are job specific? That’s your point? Migrants are foreign nationals? Documented or undocumented Migrants, expired visas?
Migrants are foreign nationals. Why did you reference 8 USC 1231?
😂 ok job related foreign nationals documented or undocumented. What’s your point? An alien indicates an undocumented foreign national.
Allegiance
Thank you
‘This orthodoxy will continue until donors refuse to support universities that do not take meaningful action to restore diversity in the faculty ranks.’
Yup. Really: college days were long ago, let go of the alma mater – it’s just sad to hear someone in their 60s gushing about their college days and/or pulling strings. We are all, including the aforementioned, going to have to live in a world peopled by these graduates. That this does not sink in is itself concerning, it’s almost like a mind-blindness. Let the fantasy go.
Close foreign donations and loans as well, audit existing endowments for undisclosed donors. Fund medical research.
I don’t think it will matter, James, these are rogue groups and the money is green and easily had.
^^^ I don’t think it matters anymore but the crime can’t be tolerated. I understand gun free zones and hammer free zones. Walking only, car free zones.
My late soulmate wife Anna would always have trouble balancing her ethics against the onslaught of those types of professors at her campus. She was an attorney, schooled at Boston University, and rose to be Dean of the School of Business and Economics at a Indiana University regional campus. She was the only female Dean of Business in the IU System. Despite the slings and arrows at her of trying to balance multiple sides, she was awarded the Athena award, woman of the year of Northwest Indiana and just before retirement, she was awarded the “Sagamore of the Wabash”, the highest civilian award in the State of Indiana. She showed how to balance your work, ethics, marriage and service work in the community. She was the “quiet one” behind getting things done.
It can be done with the right people. Anna was one of those “Right People”.
You sound very grateful for having such a wonderful soulmate and I am sorry that you lost her. Your comment is a great testament to you late wife and you should be very proud of her. Thanks for the comment.
God Bless her. She was a woman. What is a woman’s primary function and duty to her nation? The American fertility rate is below 1.6. How many Americans did she make, if we’re establishing worth, and with all due respect?
Interesting about agreeing with the liberal farts professor.
I researched in the library to look into the prof’s views then tailored my papers to his views. Definitely helpful. My kids learned to do the same
If you want to get the girls you have to be “interesting and cool” once you get that reputation, you will never sleep alone.
Ah, there’s nothing like confronting rabid dogs when they are frightened – they are liable to do anything in their feverish, diseased brain functioning in protection mode.