The “progressives” want to dominate every aspect of our lives, and that means leaving no aspect of education untouched. Students must hear their messaging all the time, everywhere.
How about America’s business schools? Won’t the leaders stand firm against the pressure for “wokeness”? No, they won’t. That’s the point Matthew Anderson makes in today’s Martin Center article.
He writes, “This capitulation was shown most recently by a pilgrimage to Washington, D.C., by some of the country’s leading business-school deans. There, B-school leaders and Biden administration representatives discussed forms of cooperation that may result in the modification of curricula. While the deans’ general obsequiousness before executive-branch officials is not a new phenomenon, this degree of systematic governmental influence in business classrooms certainly is.”
Business schools, Anderson points out, should not be about current policy disputes. They should teach students about the best ways of managing business enterprises. But that isn’t good enough for the leftists, who would like to see future business leaders who are attuned to their social concerns, and receptive to arguments for socialism. Just as law schools should simply teach about the law as it is but have been bent to teaching about law as the “progressives” want it, so too with business schools.
Anderson continues, “So why, then, are these professional degrees so larded with ideological themes? The answer is that graduate professional programs are the perfect place to enforce new norms of thinking and conceptualization, as students learn to feel that they must weigh the tradeoffs of ideological conformity and career advancement.”
We are seeing more and more business execs who have embraced the idea that the way to get ahead is to support the left.