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The big news last week--because it was made big news by the media and exploitative politicians--was the Trayvon Martin case. Students streamed out of classes, where if the professoriate were doing their duty they might learn about due process, to protest. Seminole State College officials unilaterally decided to expel George Zimmerman, who claims he shot Trayvon in self defense. Administrators cave to mobs stirred up by the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. The Black Panthers put a bounty on Zimmerman's head, and face no repercussions.
Yet, the academics use this as an opportunity to advance their favorite cause: left-wing activism.
Mary Beth Gasman, blogging at the Chronicle of Higher Education, gasses on about the role of Historically Black Colleges (HBCU's):
Dissident Prof allies helped spread the word about the bribery scandal at a Georgia State University Teach-In. Minding the Campus posted "Teach Them What to Think, and Maybe Bribe Them Too." Over at National Association of Scholars Ashley Thorne notes in her post that NAS President Peter Wood wrote about the inappropriateness of professors giving students credit for participating in Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign; the NAS post was then picked up by Education News. Reminiscent of the 2008 campaign, the 2012 Obama-Biden "organizing" fellowship application asks applicants if they are students and whether their schools offer credit for such "fellowships." Dissident Prof received notice for this volunteer opportunity from First Lady Michelle Obama.
Posted December 31, 2013, by Mary Grabar: May this land, to which my parents and many others escaped, retain its freedom, freedom to satirize and express opinions--especially about politicians. The Dissident Prof makes her debut appearance at The People's Cube, with an imitation of the inimitable Maureen Dowd, who is about as accurate in her diagnoses of causes for potetential apocalypses as is that novelist to the north who predicted that it would be Christians having women walk around in long robe-like body coverings with shielded faces. I speak of course of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, published in 1985. So much has happened in the nearly 30 years since! But it has escaped notice of the Times columnist, Maureen Dowd, who blames everything on the patriarchy and GOP. Take a read here and take a walk down memory lane with me as I revisit some of the brain-torturing French feminist criticism I had to read in graduate school.
Read more: Dissident Prof 2013: The Funny, the Sad, the Scary
By Mary Grabar, Posted July 31, 2014:Dispatching from the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, in Clinton, New York, where the Dissident Prof is visiting fellow and continuing her study of George Schuyler, great American writer and patriot. She is looking forward to a productive year writing the Schuyler book and keeping you informed about developments in the re-education of America.
Today, Dissident Prof examines one of the newsletters sent to teachers across the land. She learned that education is like a bowl of fruit. . . .
The July 24 Teachers Edition, “A Newsletter Celebrating Teaching & Leading from the U.S. Department of Education”
This is what she found:
Posted September 26, 2014, by Mary Grabar: The Dissident Prof was wondering why high school students would be staging walk-outs and protests over history standards, but suspected there had to be some teachers involved. Today's high school and college students are so immersed in stories about the glory days of protests that they will walk out of class and hold up a sign at any opportunity. The Denver Post announced, "Hundreds of Jeffco students walk out in largest school board protest" and then the Huffington Post reported, "Nearly 1,000 Colorado Students Protest a Conservative Call to Change Their History Curriculum." Huff Post reporter Matt Ferner demonstrated he knows his stuff by pening with:
Read more: Contraries:One, Two, Three, Four! What Are We Protesting For?
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