{"id":4632,"date":"2018-04-03T14:38:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T14:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/03\/what-have-you-done-for-diversity-lately\/"},"modified":"2018-04-03T14:38:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T14:38:30","slug":"what-have-you-done-for-diversity-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/03\/what-have-you-done-for-diversity-lately\/","title":{"rendered":"What Have You Done for Diversity Lately?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you thinking of applying  for a faculty position at the University of California at San Diego?  As part of your application you will be required to submit a statement<\/a> detailing your work on behalf of diversity and inclusion.<\/span><\/p>\n

A bit more evidence that the universities of the land have become leftist seminaries.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a curious development. The private universities in the United States founded by religious orders have almost all been stripped of their religious character. It survives only as window dressing. But the move has not been in the direction of ideological neutrality, but toward a substitution of leftist indoctrination for religious indoctrination.<\/span><\/p>\n

The public universities too have become seed beds of leftism, at least in the non-STEM disciplines.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sad upshot is that indoctrination dominates inquiry in all the institutions of so-called 'higher' education in the land. There are a few holdouts, of course, and again I am speaking of the non-STEM fields, or most of them: climate science has become highly ideologized.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that university is dead.  It is dead in its idea, in its classical understanding.<\/span><\/p>\n

Part of what killed it is the levelling consequent upon the foolish notion that everyone can profit from university studies. But that is a large separate topic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hat tip: Rod Dreher<\/a><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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