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Is San Diego State U. the future of "higher learning?"

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This seems to be the ultimate end to the trends that we are seeing on campuses across the country.

Just like everything else the left touches, the Universities have become politicized - in fact they are hyper-politicized. They started being politicized long before other institutions like the IRS and FBI.

The left cannot allow anything to be apolitical. Education (real education like math, science, history, etc.) should be apolitical, but not to the left.

And for them to introduce garbage majors like Queer studies and elevate them to classical areas of studies is shameful and a disservice to anyone that they dupe into majoring in their indoctrination courses. Its a rip-off and its far worse than "predatory lending" that the screamed about a few years ago.

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Identity U.
The purpose of the university is no longer the pursuit of knowledge.
Heather Mac Donald
February 1, 2018 Education

The diversity bureaucracy has finally swallowed an entire college. San Diego State University has just named to its presidency a vice chancellor of student affairs and campus diversity, hired from the University of California, Davis. The new SDSU president, Adela de la Torre, is a peerless example of the intersection of identity politics and the ballooning student-services bureaucracy.

As vice chancellor of student affairs and campus diversity at UC Davis, de la Torre presided over a division made up of a whopping 28 departments—not academic departments, but bureaucratic and identity-based ones, such as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual Resource Center; the Center for African Diaspora Student Success; the Center for Chicanx and Latinx Student Success; the Native American Academic Student Success Center; the Middle Eastern/South Asian Student Affairs Office; the Women’s Resources and Research Center; the Undocumented Student Center; Retention Initiatives; the Office of Educational Opportunity and Enrichment Services; and the Center for First-Generation Student Scholars. This gallimaufry of identity-based fiefdoms illustrates the symbiosis between an artificially segmented, identity-obsessed student body and the campus bureaucracy: the more that students carve themselves into micro-groups claiming oppressed status, the more pretext there is for new cadres of administrators to shield them from oppression. (The causation runs in the opposite direction as well: the very existence of such identity-based bureaucracies encourages students to see themselves as belonging to separate tribes.) The admission of students who do not share the academic qualifications of their peers also creates a vast bureaucratic genre of retention services, one now taking aim at traditional pedagogy said to handicap underrepresented minorities.

De la Torre received a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from UC Berkeley and soon began specializing in Chicano studies. Before her diversity and student affairs vice chancellorship, she chaired the UC Davis Department of Chicana/Chicano Studies. The guiding principle of that department is “promoting social justice,” a frank admission of the political, rather than scholarly, nature of the field. Its curriculum, according to its website, is “strong in the use of cultural expression, theory and analysis of the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality, a dedication to fostering excellent student usage, and support for community service activities.” It is not so strong in English usage.

Following the election of Donald Trump in 2016, de la Torre responded proactively to the hurt feelings and fears of UC Davis students, alerting them via email that special counseling services would be made available. “Healing spaces” were created in the various identity-oriented centers to give traumatized students a place to cope with the “potential outcomes” of the election. A few months later, de la Torre went on an international tour “with the purpose of reassuring students and families that UC Davis is committed to welcoming all students.” As vice chancellor, de la Torre also led an investigation into the suspected racial insensitivity behind a scheduled “Cinco de Drinko” party.

The American university is becoming an appendage of the identity bureaucracy and identity studies. If the mission of higher education is no longer knowledge, but social justice, an emphasis on diversity, and indoctrination in “anti-racism,” then SDSU has made the ideal hire.

https://www.city-journal.org/html/identity-u-15701.html
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Another example of "academic" insanity from the land of fruits and nuts.

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Cal State Dominguez Hills Professor Calls Trump ‘White Supremacist’ in Class Syllabus
by Tom Ciccotta5 Feb 20182,473

Professor Brooke Mascagni at California State University, Dominguez Hills, called President Trump a “white supremacist” in a syllabus for her political science course offered this spring.

Professor Brooke Mascagni calls President Trump a “white supremacist” and an “orange reality star,” in the syllabus for her political science class at California State University, Dominguez Hills.

The class, which is called “American Political Institutions,” will spend a lot of time criticizing the current president, according to the class syllabus.

Under a section of the syllabus entitled “Why is this class important?” Mascagni hurls insults at the president. “Future generations will wonder how the greatest democracy in the world elected a white supremacist, misogynist, narcissistic, volatile, belligerent, uninformed, stubborn, failed businessman and orange reality star to the highest office,” she wrote.

Mascagni doesn’t shy away from explicitly admitting that the class is about condemning the president and the rest of the Republican Party.

“The President of the United States won the 2016 election by appealing to bigotry and hatred,” Mascagni wrote in the syllabus. “Just about every day, a new scandal breaks or evidence of corruption emerges. Moreover, the Republican Party controls the executive and legislative branches of government, yet couldn’t manage to keep the government running on the one year anniversary of Trump’s inauguration.”

An anonymous student from Mascagni’s class told reporters that the course has an “unbelievable blatant” bias towards progressive politics. The student told reporters that Mascagni’s course was the most extreme instance of classroom bias that they had experienced in college.

According to Mascagni’s website, she also teaches courses in feminist studies as well as a course on social movements.

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/02/0 ... -syllabus/
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UpstateSCHokie wrote:Another example of "academic" insanity from the land of fruits and nuts.

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Cal State Dominguez Hills Professor Calls Trump ‘White Supremacist’ in Class Syllabus
by Tom Ciccotta5 Feb 20182,473

Professor Brooke Mascagni at California State University, Dominguez Hills, called President Trump a “white supremacist” in a syllabus for her political science course offered this spring.

Professor Brooke Mascagni calls President Trump a “white supremacist” and an “orange reality star,” in the syllabus for her political science class at California State University, Dominguez Hills.

The class, which is called “American Political Institutions,” will spend a lot of time criticizing the current president, according to the class syllabus.

Under a section of the syllabus entitled “Why is this class important?” Mascagni hurls insults at the president. “Future generations will wonder how the greatest democracy in the world elected a white supremacist, misogynist, narcissistic, volatile, belligerent, uninformed, stubborn, failed businessman and orange reality star to the highest office,” she wrote.

Mascagni doesn’t shy away from explicitly admitting that the class is about condemning the president and the rest of the Republican Party.

“The President of the United States won the 2016 election by appealing to bigotry and hatred,” Mascagni wrote in the syllabus. “Just about every day, a new scandal breaks or evidence of corruption emerges. Moreover, the Republican Party controls the executive and legislative branches of government, yet couldn’t manage to keep the government running on the one year anniversary of Trump’s inauguration.”

An anonymous student from Mascagni’s class told reporters that the course has an “unbelievable blatant” bias towards progressive politics. The student told reporters that Mascagni’s course was the most extreme instance of classroom bias that they had experienced in college.

According to Mascagni’s website, she also teaches courses in feminist studies as well as a course on social movements.

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/02/0 ... -syllabus/
that is so sad, crazy!
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California :?: Who would have thunk it :?:
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