Category: Education (higher ed)
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Marxist Educational Strongholds at the University of Virginia – A Course Guide
by James C. Sherlock, University of Virginia, College of Arts and Sciences, 1966 This essay will present a survey of left-wing educational opportunities at the University of Virginia by means of a review of courses offered in its Marxist critical theory strongholds. It does not presume the reader favors or rejects Marxism, but provides a course…
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Fraternities as Bastions Against the Cultural Totalitarians
by James A. Bacon Back when I attended the University of Virginia many moons ago, I was a GDI — an acronym for a God-Damned Independent. During the fall rush my first year I attended two fraternity parties on Rugby Road and found nothing entertaining about hanging out with people whose sole purpose seemed to…
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Newspeak for a Racial Spoils System
Letters from disgruntled alumni continue to pour into the office of University of Virginia president Jim Ryan. Bacon’s Rebellion is privy to some of them, and when letter writers add something new to the ongoing discussion, I will endeavor to publish the relevant passages in the blog. In this post, I’m extracting from a letter…
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UVA Legal Counsel Opines on Free Speech
The “F— UVa” sign on the door of a University of Virginia resident of the Lawn violates no university policy and is protected by the First Amendment, concluded University Counsel Timothy J. Heaphy. However, a new policy banning all signs on lawn room doors could pass constitutional muster if applied prospectively instead of retrospectively. “A…
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A Public Service – Watch Angela Davis Speak at UVa
by James C. Sherlock The University of Virginia did all of us a favor when it hosted and recorded a speech by the Marxist Angela Davis through its Excellence in Diversity Series from September 2017 through March 2018. The credit on the UVa web page below the video states: Angela Davis’ work as an educator –…
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The Jaw Dropping Political Contributions of UVa’s Board of Visitors
By DJ Rippert Waiting for Godot. A recent article on this blog titled, “UVa Board Backs Ryan on Lawn Signage Issue,” seemed to suggest that The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors (BoV) was a critical link in UVa’s governance structure. My interpretation of the article was that the author (Jim Bacon) believed the BoV…
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Time to Be Honest about COVID-19
By Peter Galuszka Two remarkable stories dominate headlines this morning – Donald Trump has COVID-19 and some 5,000 Virginia college students also have the virus. The infection of Trump throws an already chaotic presidential race into further confusion. State colleges are scrambling to find what to do about viral infections since the numbers have exploded…
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W&L Alumni Revolt Gains Momentum
by James A. Bacon The Washington & Lee alumni outcry against an initiative to remove Lee’s name from the university is morphing into a powerful constituency demanding influence in university decision-making. Under the name of The Generals Redoubt, alumni protesters have formed a nonprofit, raised $456,000 in funds, and articulated a coherent alternative vision for…
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Bacon Bits: Special Ethnic/Racial/Sexual Exploitation Issue
VCU construction workers allege exploitation. From VPM News: Speaking anonymously, undocumented workers at Virginia Commonwealth University construction sites say they are being exploited by unidentified middle men who misclassify them as contractors instead of employees, deprive them of benefits, and don’t pay them for overtime. VCU said it does not hire undocumented workers (illegal aliens)…
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College Students See Free Speech on Campus as a Problem
by James C. Sherlock Updated Sept 30 3:15 PM The results of a new, rigorously analyzed and very large-scale scientific survey of nearly 20,000 students’ perspectives of free speech at 55 different universities in the U.S. are beyond troubling. We will look at the overall results and specific results for the University of Virginia and…
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College Education as Consumer Fraud?
by James A. Bacon I’ve long warned that Virginia’s colleges and universities would pay a price for their embrace of leftist radicalism, intolerance of non-conforming views, and hostility to reasoned debate. Why, I asked, would parents spend tens of thousands of dollars yearly to send off their children to be indoctrinated with values and world…
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Alumni to UVa: Enough Is Enough
by James A. Bacon The debate over “contextualizing” the Thomas Jefferson statue at the University of Virginia itself needs some context. Viewed in isolation, the idea of adding a plaque to the Jefferson statue alluding to his flaws as a slaveholder as well as to his political and intellectual achievements should not be a cause…
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UVa Leadership Justifies Contextualizing Jefferson Statue
The University of Virginia administration and Board of Visitors is caught in the crossfire as alumni push back against the radicalization of the university and denigration of its founder Thomas Jefferson. In the previous post, I published a letter written by Thomas M. Neale and co-signed by 200 others condemning the Board of Visitors resolution…
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End Self-Flagellation, Urge UVa Alumni
The social-justice war has been unfolding at a furious pace at the University of Virginia. Earlier this month, UVa alumni Bert Ellis wrote a widely disseminated email decrying the posting on the door of a 4th year student of her room on the lawn a sign saying “Fuck UVa.” When the administration declined to act…
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Anti-Racism Training and Whiteness – Equal Time
by James C. Sherlock The movement should be allowed to speak for itself. It will do so here. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, in its online portal called “Talking About Race,” provided what may qualify as the official list of the characteristics of whiteness. The graphic linked below was published…