As readers of the Corner know, there are only a few remaining institutions of higher education in the U.S. that are holding out against the “progressive” tide. I’m sorry to have to report that one of them seems to have fallen.
The institution in question is the University of San Diego School of Law. Australian law professor James Allan, who taught at the school, relays the bad news here.
He writes:
Hiring was now to be done explicitly with an eye to “diversity” (though of course, not the sort that has anything to do with outlook). In the not-too-distant future, this small private law school will be much of a muchness with other like law schools. Its market differentiation was occasionally to grab up people whose views made being employed harder than their qualifications would otherwise warrant. Taking advantage of this market failure, as it were, allowed USD to punch well above its weight. Alas, seemingly no more. The capture of law schools by one dominant outlook rolls on to the peripheral outliers, to that wonderful USD law school that gave me two magnificent sabbaticals. And I cannot tell readers how sad this all makes me.
I wish there were at least one case where a “woke” school changed back to having a purely academic focus without the heavy ideological baggage of leftism, but I have never heard of one.