What's The Opposite Of "Diversity"?

Conservatives and libertarians must retake academia.

Actually we need to put academia in proper perspective. Academia is largely disconnected from reality and as such is of little more than passing interest. It definitely is not authoritative or even correct in most of its views. Our response to most academics should be "You have a point of view. Good for you! Did you know that your point of view and a couple of bucks will get you a cup of coffee".

Joe: "Academia is largely disconnected from reality and as such is of little more than passing interest."

Uh, Joe, you seem to have disregarded the influence "largely disconnected" academia has on our young people.

Everyone and his kid goes to university now -- numbers grossly disproportionate to who should be admitted to "university" -- and they're very much affected by the leftist garbage our "academics" are peddling.

OTOH, I am heartened by the more conservative views of many young people I meet: They're aware that life is tough, jobs aren't falling off trees for them, and they're getting really pi**ed off by the "special status" of too many entitled groups, labelled as such by the left-lib apparatchiks.

I'm hopeful that the tide is turning. As life becomes less lucrative and more daunting for young people, they're not going to put up with the leftist crap that robs their meagre bank accounts.

Just for fun, here's the Rate my Professors page for the University of Iowa “F--- You Republicans” Dr. Ellen Lewin, dept. Women's Studies (plus Anthro. and a bunch of other nonesense). Let's say that not scoring at all on the Chilli Pepper (racism? misspelling?) of Hottness is the least of her concerns.

Zee bubble, she boorst, senor.

Those who use the word "diversity", also use the word "tolerance" and then they use the term "zero tolerance" for things they disagree with.

Conservatives use the word "hypocrite" to describe them.

How did it happen that a mostly conservative pre-WWII North America suddenly became openly socialist after WWII ended?

How did the men drop the ties and jackets for saggy pants and hoodies, and the women dropped the dresses and high heels for saggy pants, hoodies and rubber slippers?

What has changed?

Prof of women's studies? Useless parasite more like. A femcnut of the first order teaching more femcnuts, judging by the gushingly loving reviews at Rate my prof. If so-called schools of higher learning want to save money, women's and gender studies should be the first to go. No actual scholars in there

@8:21 - most of the reviews are sharply negative. This is possibly the worst rating for a prof I've ever seen.

It started with the dumbing down of teachers in the public system.
The requirements for high school teachers before the 1970s were fairly tough ... had to have an education diploma + at least a B(x)... university level math, english, science etc.
The only exceptions in my HS seemed to be shop teachers and the arts crowd. One of my science and tech teachers was a Peng... and a very good teacher as well as role model.

By the time my HS class had progressed to university grad level the campuses were having a tough time finding students with the grades and the proper credits to qualify for entrance.

The reason? Many of those HS teachers with real credentials went to work in the real world getting jobs that paid a lot more than the teacher salaries they were living on. At the same time the demands for new blood in the teaching talent pool were forcing administrators to accept less less qualified teachers... compounded by the fact that well educated university grads had plenty of opportunity to go into the real world instead of teaching.
Brain drain ... with the added complication in the form of meddling social experimenters who were in the early stages of f@cking up the school system through the introduction of "options" that allowed adolescents to elect whatever courses they wanted to ... which resulted in still fewer secondary school grads with any useful education.

A perfect storm that resulted in post secondary institutions being forced to lower their standards just so they could keep admissions up.

The next trend was the explosion of arts and liberal arts plus pseudo-sciences (humanities)in the universities and the downwards spiral of intelligence within faculties and student bodies.

Today ... the only serious students (a minority) are left struggling to get any value at all out of this sausage factory education system. I doubt if there is much of a chance for improvement.

The only way a serious young person should even consider university these days is if they are seeking Profession ... as in Medicine or Applied Science. Other than that ... go straight into job training.

As for those suckers who find themselves stuck with the losers that populate what remains of these institutions ... get out and save yourselves from a future of frustration and irrelevance.

Leftist control of academia goes FAR beond the classrooms.

The large preponderance of leftist professors, in general, and their complete dominance in the vast majority of departments means they hold a majority on EVERY campus committee and in the faculty senate.

So they not only get to select their own future colleagues, they get to have a say on tenure committees, grant committees, approval or disapproval of new courses, approval or disapproval of new majors and minors, and all rules regarding faculty and student conduct.

They also dominate the hiring pool for every administrative job, so they pack the offices of the assistant deans, deans, provosts, chancellors, presidents, and ombudsmen. Every facet of college administration, logistics, finance and budget, operations, and academics are controlled by Demon Rats.

They also get to populated national grant committees.

So guess who gets all the funding, promotions, tenure, grants, colloquia, seminars, sabbaticals, and fellowships.

Guess who gets to choose new graduate students.

Guess who gets to determine the level of support and mentorship to provide to aspiring professors.

Guess who runs most of the peer-reviewed journals, without publishing in which you can't get tenure. Guess who does the peer reviews.

No game has ever been more rigged. We do, in fact, need affirmative action for conservatives. Krugman is WRONG that it's purely self-selection.

Mamba, excellent find on the rating thing. Looks like the kids are not impressed.

I have actually seen worse, had a prof in NY who spent the entire first lecture telling us exactly what type of pencil and what notebook would be used in class. Second lecture further described the notebook and precisely what would be written in it, as it was going to be marked.

I dropped the class, after letting him know my opinion of his pencil/notebook lectures. That was kind of fun, as I was -much- larger than him. ~:D

This woman prof is actually a quite common type in smaller colleges. Its about the only employment they can get, since they're both lazy and completely f-ed in the head. Also not bright, can't argue their way out of a wet paper bag and so resort to harsh words.

There are few things in life more enjoyable than crossing one's arms and laughing loudly while some marmoset like wee Ellen there looses her sh1t right in front of you. Looming over them like a redwood is fun too.

Damn, I'm almost tempted to sign up for some Women's Studies course just to tweak the instructor. Almost...

And we thought university was a merit system!

I feel badly for the professors and students who deserve to be in university but are drowned out by the clowns therein. Where are the sit-ins AGAINST the twits who teach women's studies and promote Israel Hatred Week?

POW in CA - you've described the university system of fiefdoms perfectly. These leftists do indeed control all new hiring, course curriculum, tenure, promotions, merit, graduate students, academic awards, peer reviews in journals and so on.

In Canada, they sit on the federal research awards boards - and they diligently prevent new research and also, primarily support only the sophist left.

It's a disgrace to integrity and knowledge.

@Black Mamba

Wow, I was reading through those reviews - it's pretty telling how even some self described liberals and leftists were uncomfortable with the way she treated anyone in the class more conservative than her.

as I recall, 2004 survey done by UoT ( a leftist sh1thole it's self) 87% of upper college and Universities profs identified as "lefties"

It should seem, to the establishment left who control all aspects of education, that their world image has become inverted. Many entered academia when the inaccurate but conventional narrative of the sixties defined the left as renegade and revolutionary to the presumably conservative establishment. Now seeing conservatives as clearly being the renegades on campus while the old left has become mired in the homogenized, intolerant, and censorious (PC jack-booted) status quo, their reaction plays out identically to the largely fictitious enemies of their past narrative. Most deserve to replaced by online education or at a minimum, library cards.

Conservatives and libertarians must retake academia.

Economic conditions will sort things out.
Few will be able to afford expensive bad education for much longer.
'Cause the times, they are a'chaaan'gin.

"Conservatives and libertarians must retake academia."

I could not agree more! Hear hear!

I've dealt with the women's studies crowd, both on campus and off. They are more damaging to the reputation of academia than any other department - though there's certainly plenty of competition. Advertising you have a degree in women's studies is a sure way to never be taken seriously in anything you say, do or write outside of the women's studies dept.

well pow, I dont hear you complaining about the FACT that for decades the top jobs in many CANADIAN universities were filled by..................americans.

who would then hand out the jobs of their immediate subordinates to..................americans.

the excuse being of course, canadians did not have the requisite 'experience'. (echoes of how do you get the job to get the experience to get the job so you can get the experience to get the job).

at least now universities in canuckistan are not fronts for R&D labs for the military unlike the conservative run outfits in the hayday of the vietnam war.

ping: I am going to enjoy reading the good colonel (that would be POWinCA) when he responds to you.

Your claim that "for decades the top jobs in many CANADIAN universities were filled by..................americans." shows that you are a typical Canadian leftie, discriminating against foreigners and making accusations without offering a shred of proof.

If there were indeed American professors teaching at Canadian universities I'm sure they obtained their position on merit as in the past where you were from did not matter. I am also sure that there have been many Canadians teaching in the USA as well, including a certain Mr. Ignatief.

"R&D labs for the military?" If so good, the side with the best weapons and personnel wins and I want our side to win, don't you? To get the best weapons you have to have the best brains devoloping them. Remember that 'those without swords can also die on them'.

Incidentally, it is spelled 'heyday' and countries are always spelled with an upper case
letter, ie 'Vietnam war.'

al in ottawa - excellent comments to ping.

ping - the issue isn't whether or not the hired are American or Canadian - and you sound like a typical leftist Canadian with your knee-jerk hatred of America ...the issue is political leaning: left or right.

As for 'R&D labs for the military' - are you serious? Kindly explain how the American left, who filled our university arts and humanities positions, and who are themselves anti-American and anti-war - how did these sophists function as 'R&D labs for the military'?

Universities are essentially left-wing think tanks.

I didn't learn anything until I got out of university.

Like the weasels they are when cornered they fight and bite with everything they have, ever caught a weasel, well I have, these lefties are the humanoid equivalents of weasels. As the world slowly gets back to the novel concept, that business and wealth creation trump feelings and bullshot global warming garbage, the SCAM artists will become more and more violent. The jig is up as Dick Tracy said.

ping said "...fronts for R&D labs for the military..."

Dude, we should be so lucky. Did you know there are -no- electronics camps for kids here in Golden Horseshoe, the acknowledged Center of the Known Universe for all things techie in Canada? There are barely any electronics programs for kids out of high school.

Um... conservatives don't become college professors because A. The pay sucks, and B. They don't want to hang out w/a bunch of liberals. You don't see liberals trying to work at the NYSE and complaining about all the conservatives there. The act of questioning everything: assumptions, traditional power structures, and the supposed "truths" that society shares (what academia is supposed to be concerned with), is by nature a liberal enterprise. The act of saying: "there's nothing wrong with the social order, stop with all the questions" is a conservative mindset. Which mindset matches better with the goals of (much of) academia?

The only Women's Studies program should be Gynecology.

Women studies are run by fantasists with a gaggle of Marxist puritians.

those who would like to contact ms. Lewin and politely voice their disapproval of her behaviour (POLITELY, people) may do so at: ellen-lewin@uiowa.edu