By Dr. Scott Yenor & Anna K. Miller Social justice ideology is turning American higher education into an engine of progressive activism and ideological indoctrination. Its advocates demand conformity to the cult of race, class and gender victimology cloaked in language like “diversity” and “inclusion.” It is bad for free inquiry and for scientific advancement. It cultivates anger and resentment …
Let’s begin 2021 with some potentially happy news from a place that hasn’t generated a lot of happy news of late: The University of Idaho. The school is closing a program on campus that is funded by Communist China. The program is called the Confucius Institute and it is one of hundreds of similar institutes located on university campuses in …
In a little more than a month, Idaho’s public colleges and universities are supposed to report to state lawmakers what they’ve done to reduce administrative bloat and get back to their core missions. It’s hard to point to a single thing the schools have done to unwind the leftist, social justice-oriented indoctrination that has infiltrated deep into the bowels of …
A few weeks ago, former state Sen. Branden Durst took to Twitter to complain about Boise State Public Radio’s liberal bias. The university-based news outlet’s primary news source is National Public Radio, which has become radio’s reliable mocker of all things conservative. But even the station’s locally-generated content is focused almost exclusively on the promotion of dogmatic leftism in the …
No time to read? We have you covered. Click below to listen to this column in podcast form! In December 2019, state higher education officials announced the first tuition and fee freeze in more than four decades. They said it was the right thing to do in order to keep the costs down for students and parents. But there’s another …
Boise State University officials would have the public believe they didn’t chase police-supporting Big City Coffee from campus. But university officials didn’t exactly encourage the small business to stay. At a minimum the controversy has helped expose an ongoing effort from within the school’s administration and student body to make allegiance to a social justice agenda a condition for doing …
