Leftist control of our colleges is almost complete. Most of the faculty adheres to collectivist beliefs and so do most of the burgeoning number of administrators. They seldom pass up opportunities to push students to accept their ideology.
In a recent book entitled Brutal Minds, Drexel University professor Stanley Ridgley writes about the brainwashing problem, and I review it for the Martin Center today.
In Ridgley’s view, the worst of the problem is not in regular classrooms (although there certainly are some professors who can’t resist turning their courses into delivery systems for propaganda), but rather it’s in the low-level administrators in student residence-life programs. They operate like cults to move students along a “conveyor belt” to tear down their existing belief systems and replace them with Marxian, critical-race-theory junk.
Those people are almost always graduates of education schools — intellectual mediocrities who have themselves drunk the Kool-Aid from their professors and eagerly latch on to cozy university jobs where they can indoctrinate students.
There is an organization for these folks, the National Association of Student Affairs Personnel, and Ridgley quotes from its handbook:
Student affairs provide the theoretical foundation and practical strategies to effectively foster the development of social justice allies, specifically addressing pedagogical issues relating to negotiating sexual orientation, gender, disability and race. We outline critical pedagogical strategies for meeting community resistance in a manner that increases potential for enlisting them in the battle for social justice and equity.
My conclusion: “Brutal Minds should make you angry at the way our educational ‘leaders’ have permitted colleges and universities to be infiltrated by fake academics pushing poisonous beliefs on gullible students.”