“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.
What if people voluntarily consent to an orthodoxy? Is that acceptable? This is what church members do.
Students living in academia are not voluntarily consenting. They are having left-wing orthodoxy shoved down their throats in an institution that is supposed to be a free-speech marketplace of ideas with openness to free inquiry, but has been corrupted by the Left, which ruins everything it touches. They know that failure to toe the party line carries consequences inimical to their ability to get good grades and thereby secure a successful career.
Should churches have to make equal time for Muslims and Jews?
^ Sea lioning ^
Why is it called a strait when it is so crooked?
Because it excludes gays. Justice for the gays of Hormuz!
Maybe that explains why no drag line dredging is allowed on Queen Charlotte Strait
This blog is a crisis.
Trump had enough. He is opening the Strait. Never should have paused our attack until they opened it. Iran is pure evil. Wok, they call to you. Go to them. You can’t refuse.
I have had enough of Trump.
For many on university faculties, they must feel that they are living in a police state. An organization like the AAUP tells what political views they must hold. And if they don’t adhere to left-wing propaganda, then students or members of Antifa or similar organizations will denounce or picket or perhaps even assault them.
We can all remember the Duke Lacrosse team and the hell its members were put through by the faculty and administration of that university, backed up by “civil rights” organizations, and lastly by the media, including the national media. They were almost lynched due to a lie, which no one dared to call a lie. The same combustible mixture of left-wing madness exists in almost all our major universities. It is not the donors, but the state legislatures, that must take the lead in getting this stain off our national character.
That is pretty much what a church does.
You need some help. . .really. Your comments give me the impression that you don’t believe in God, or as some would say. . .the creator.
Must I subscribe to this orthodoxy, or should I have the freedom of conscience not to?
“. . . which no one dared to call a lie.”
Two heroic individuals did call it a lie, early and often: KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor Jr.
Johnson’s blog (a prof at Brooklyn College) was instrumental in exonerating the wrongly accused students and in exposing the race/gender/class pot bangers. Taylor’s writings (a legal commentator) also exposed the truth.
Their co-authored book, _Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case_, is the definitive work on that gross injustice.
Then it happened at UVA too. Same false accusations, same media frenzy to demonize the frat, same lack of contrition by all the false accusers once the truth came out.
On the blog Young sent a review of Guelzo and Hankin’s new two volume book from Claremont a top notch reviewer of books. It read the review of, The Golden Thread: A History of Western Tradition and it explains what is happening. (The entire review is fascinating and worthwile to read.)
They both left their Ivy’s and will take up positions at the University of Florida Gainesville (Hamilton School). Here are some quotes.
“Few students or teachers have retained a sense that they are inheritors of a great legacy handed down via the classical and Christian traditions,” wrote Hankins last December in Compact magazine, in an article titled “Why I’m Leaving Harvard.” “When you don’t teach the young what civilization is, it turns out, people become uncivilized.” Maybe the simplest way of explaining what this means is to point out that civilization, among other things, is a kind of belonging. A civis, in Latin, is a citizen. To become civilized is to become a member of a society and a participant in a shared history. People who become uncivilized, then, become enemies. They are set in opposition to each other and to their ancestors. As Guelzo and Hankins put it in their introduction to Volume II of The Golden Thread, “Voices from outside and inside the Western tradition have condemned Westerners as oppressors, imperialists, colonizers, and appropriators.”
…”In the ’50s, Harvard’s history department offered a suite of entry-level courses on Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, and Early Modern Europe. By the ’90s, James Hankins had to pack all those subjects into a single term of required instruction, under the heading of “Western Civilization.” It ran for less than ten years before his colleagues voted to let it go.”
“In essence, the story they tell is a traditional one. Hankins opens it with the Battle of Marathon,… John Stuart Mill observed in the 19th century that “the Battle of Marathon, even as an event in British history, is more important than the Battle of Hastings,”
“Few students or teachers have retained a sense that they are inheritors of a great legacy handed down via the classical and Christian traditions,” wrote Hankins last December in Compact magazine, in an article titled “Why I’m Leaving Harvard.” “When you don’t teach the young what civilization is, it turns out, people become uncivilized.” Maybe the simplest way of explaining what this means is to point out that civilization, among other things, is a kind of belonging.
History tells us who we are and where we are going. All too many haven’t learned this and that is why they can only spew ignorant non-seniscal replies. Oikophobia is described, which seems to be the predominent theme of those on the left, though they don’t recognize where their desires lead them; physical and mental slavery.
Unbelievably stupid comment.
Guelzo and Hankins are historians who teach an insignificant and completely inconsequential number of students.
The vast majority of students who attend college are pursuing career oriented studies in the hard sciences, medicine, law, business and so on. Less than 10% of students pursue a humanities degree. The students that these two professors have contact with are an infinitesimally small proportion of the student body, and yet you generalize their comments regarding students in a very narrow field to the entire student body.
99% of the students would have absolutely no interaction with these two professors at any level, but you take their comments and generalize their criticisms to ALL the students.
You are out of your mind !!!!
“Unbelievably stupid comment.” (” hard sciences, medicine, law, )
Yes, you are or at least you are barking up the wrong tree.
I do not believe all students must study Western history in depth, but they should have an abundance of knowledge regarding Western civilization and the nations they are citizens of. These historians are the experts and they teach future leaders which filters down to all.
Even most physicians have a reasonble knowledge even though they are engrossed in one of the very demanding fields. Engineers are intelligent enough to know much of this but need not be experts. Lawyers should have a basic understanding of the golden thread, but we read and learn many do not and that is why our system might be doomed to failure.
Listen to OLLY. He is not talking about in depth study, but essential civics and learning the lessons of history.
SM, your comments on formation are excellent, and that is exactly where I’m headed. Every college is running two programs at once: a degree program that is supposed to make students marketable, and a citizen formation program that tells them who they are and what kind of member of a community or world they should be. Since everything that happens in this country is downstream of that second program, I would tie every federal dollar and every federally backed loan to it. If we can require a basic dose of civics to hand out a high school diploma, we ought to be able to expect a more advanced level of civic competence before we underwrite four more years with federal loans. If a school wants that money, it should have to show real, measurable work in building citizen capacity for self government, not just churning out credentials and slogans.
It’s called freedom of conscience. I thought you were all about freedom.
“Less than 10% of students pursue a humanities degree.”
You’ve been called out on that nonsense numerous times. Yet you continue to spew it.
The fact is that it’s closer to *100%* of students who are required to take humanities courses (or at least what passes for them today.)
And you’re grossly ignorant about the history of the humanities in higher education. Before it was gutted, there were first-year Western Civ courses that were routinely packed with hundreds of students.
@Danny
Pretty much the stupidest comment of the day, and there have been some contenders. Your tiny mind can’t seem to grasp that people who are not ‘MAGA’, or even ‘conservative’ voted for Trump, and in great numbers. But tiny mind is the MO of the modern DNC, so. . . .
But keep looking at those commercially printed ‘RESIST’ signs scattered around your neighborhood and think you are the good guy or accomplishing anything whatsoever. If you have the courage, which I doubt, go to your little Mexico and see how many ‘RESIST’ signs you see. Take pictures and share them. You are a joke.
The campaign states further that “ICE, and the Trump regime generally, cannot function without the consent and collaboration of the business world.”
As if consent really matters to Democrats. what a joke
Eric Swallwell demanded women give him oral sex a without their consent.
A woman who worked for nearly two years for Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading candidate for California governor, said she had sexual encounters with him while he was her boss and alleged he twice sexually assaulted her when she was too intoxicated to consent.
On Friday afternoon, shortly after the Chronicle published an initial version of this story, Swalwell allies including both chairs of his campaign — Democratic Reps. Jimmy Gomez of Los Angeles and Adam Gray of Turlock (Stanislaus County) — began withdrawing their endorsements and calling on him to drop out of the gubernatorial race. Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, one of Swalwell’s most powerful allies, also called on him to leave the race.
She said Swalwell, who is married and 17 years her senior at age 45, tried to kiss her in her car when she drove him home from a donor meeting one night. Driving him to another event weeks later, she said Swalwell pulled out his penis in the car and asked her to perform oral sex on him. She said she did so in a parking lot.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/eric-swalwell-allegations-22198271.php
There is a jail in Danville. Why don’t they put him in it?
If Trump has committed similar crimes, why is he not in jail?
Unions are criminal organizations that must be made illegal. The American Association of University Professors may be a supportive efficiency, but any and all organizations that conduct “job actions” or “strikes” must immediately lose certification and be criminally prosecuted for malicious breach of contract, malicious negotiation et al.