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Posted September 6, 2013, by Mary Grabar: The Dissident Prof has been traveling. Calendar events are posted at the updated Mary Grabar site. Please keep checking (and invite the Dissident Prof to speak to your group).
First, was a delightful event on August 18 at the home of Nancy Griffin, who hosted her and Tina Trent speaking about radicals in education, along with Maryland Congressional candidate and former distinguished Secret Service agent, Dan Bongino. In Washington, D.C., on August 20, she presented her report on the "The Crisis in American Journalism and the Conservative Response" along with co-author Tina Trent. Cliff Kincaid began the conference with a powerful presentation on the launch of Al Jazeera America, which happened the very same day in our nation's capital (covered by Newsmax). Grove City College Professor and Dissident Prof friend Paul Kengor spoke on his report All the Dupes Fit to Print: Journalists Who Have Served as Tools of Communist Propaganda. New Zealand blogger and researcher Trevor Loudon ended with a resounding warning about "The Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists, and Progressives in the United States Congress," also the title of his new book. Trevor is touring Florida now, but will be in Georgia mid-September. Check this site or his for details. His book is a valuable, well-documented resource and he is a dynamic speaker.
Posted by Mary Grabar, August 22, 2014: It's a sad day when the first day of school is delayed a week because of rioting, as it has been in Ferguson, Missouri. Teachers, instead of being in classrooms teaching, have been getting "crisis training." Those who have irresponsibly been quick to judge in the case of the shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer without all the facts have only added fuel to the fire. This is the case in the lessons about Ferguson that have been prepared, free for teachers to download.
Read more: Contraries: The Ferguson Riots and Lessons from 1964
Posted on December 11, 2015, by Mary Grabar: One, two, three, four! What are we protesting for? There seems to be some confusion on campuses across the nation. But we do know that so far groups on 73 campuses have joined the Black Liberation Collective and issued "demands." Like a lover's spat gone on too long, the aggrieved party hardly knows what it is that is bothering them. We hear that there is "institutional racism" that permeates campuses; "microaggressions" abound. Long-standing sculptures and paintings suddenly make students hyperventilate as they undergo collective PTSD syndrome.
It's even in a name. Over at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania the Black Student Union is demanding the renaming of Lynch Memorial Hall. Inside Higher Ed reports, "Students who are pushing for the name change say that the name 'Lynch' has racist associations because of lynching."
Read more: Contraries: Silly Season at School, Protests, and a Cowboy Song
Posted July 1, 2016, by Mary Grabar: Dissident Prof believes that the politicization of education (such as the implementation of Common Core for which we were targeted by the IRS) is a legitimate topic of criticism for an education non-profit. We have noticed that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has inspired countless "analyses," ranging from psychological profiles to comparisons of segregationists and fascists, by professors at tax-exempt universities, without equivalent investigations of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.
This is one of the many ways that tax and tuition dollars are being mis-used. Scholars cannot be bothered to go beyond simple praise for a potential "historic" first-female president but engagie in smear campaigns against Trump. Students are encouraged to participate in Democratic-aligned civic engagement activities, and of course are subjected to subtle and not-so-subtle comments in class. It does not even end at commencement, for that is where highly paid celebrities and the first lady continue the politicking.
October 31, 2014, posted by Mary Grabar: Irony Alert, Grit, True Grit, Academic Politboro Punishing Bill Maher. The release of the Department of Education report "Promoting Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance: Critical Factors for Success in the 21st Century" in 2013 seems to have had a residual effect. The report claimed that strictly academic factors were not as important as certain personality traits, like "grit," for success in school--and life. At the risk of suffering the same opprobrium as British English professor Thomas Docherty for being too "ironic," and "sighing and using negative body language," Dissident Prof (former English professor, who like other English professors specializes in "irony") will be ironic about "grit."
Read more: Contraries: Scary News about Education, Halloween 2014
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