{"id":1542002,"date":"2022-07-06T18:04:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T22:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1542002"},"modified":"2022-07-06T18:04:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T22:04:27","slug":"professor-blasts-woke-takeover-of-higher-education-reveals-why-he-finally-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/professor-blasts-woke-takeover-of-higher-education-reveals-why-he-finally-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Blasts \u2018Woke Takeover Of Higher Education,\u2019 Reveals Why He Finally Quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprofessor-blasts-woke-takeover-of-higher-education-reveals-why-he-finally-quit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1542002&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/los-angeles-ucla\">University of California Los Angeles<\/a> anthropology professor Joseph Manson revealed that he is leaving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/colleges\">academia<\/a> due to the \u201cWoke takeover of higher education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/josephhmanson.com\/2022\/07\/04\/why-im-leaving-the-university\/\">blog post<\/a> from Manson, who decided to retire at the age of 62, details the ways in which \u201cmilitant\u201d faculty members are upending the university, even causing a decline in academic standards. He characterized UCLA\u2019s anthropology department as \u201cunusually peaceful\u201d and \u201cintellectually inclusive\u201d until the late 2000s, when \u201cmilitant faculty recruited even more extremely militant graduate students to work with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manson detailed the \u201cpublic torment and humiliation\u201d of colleague Professor Jeffrey Brantingham, who created predictive software that could aid law enforcement in preventing urban crime. A <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Ti-6xq9yJJpG7CalWgkso1l2WbhbFJs5\/view\">resolution<\/a> passed by the school\u2019s Anthropology Graduate Students Association condemned the work as furthering the \u201ccriminalization of Blackness in the United States,\u201d as well as reinforcing \u201cthe racial capitalist and imperialist projects\u201d dominant across the world. As a result, Brantingham became the target of activism from colleagues and students for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis document contains no trace of scholarly argument, but instead resembles a religious proclamation of anathema,\u201d Manson observed. \u201cAs you won\u2019t be surprised to hear, Jeff is not a racist, but a standard-issue liberal Democrat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manson said that several colleagues admitted to him that Brantingham was treated unfairly, though they refrained from saying so publicly due to \u201cfear of the Woke faction.\u201d Among other clues to the pervasive fear, Manson noted that all faculty members except for himself voted to drop the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) \u2014 an admissions test used by many American graduate schools \u2014 despite its usefulness in determining students\u2019 qualifications, due to the possibility of being \u201cregarded as racists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, several elite schools \u2014 including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/harvard-wont-require-standardized-tests-through-2026\">Harvard University<\/a> and the broader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/uc-system-discarded-sat-test-as-hard-on-minorities-they-ignored-study-saying-it-actually-helped-minority-admissions\">University of California<\/a> system \u2014 jettisoned admissions testing requirements for undergraduates. On the campaign trail, President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-biden-commits-to-ending-racist-standardized-testing-calls-out-lousy-teachers\">agreed<\/a> with the premise that standardized testing is \u201crooted in a history of racism and eugenics\u201d and vowed to end its use in public schools.<\/p>\n<p>Manson listed other concerning signs of \u201cWoke capture\u201d at UCLA, including a call to include \u201cnon-binary and intersex identities in biology courses,\u201d the rise of anti-Zionism, and <a href=\"https:\/\/ucla.app.box.com\/v\/edi-statement-faqs\">mandatory<\/a> approvals of diversity statements for faculty job applications.<\/p>\n<p>Why did Manson decide to leave, despite advice from other academics to stay? Because higher education in the United States is \u201cmorally and intellectually corrupt, beyond the possibility of self-repair, and therefore no longer a worthwhile setting in which to spend my time and effort,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n<p>As Manson noted, several prominent academics have likewise decided in recent months to leave their university posts. Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-rise-of-jordan-peterson\">Jordan Peterson<\/a> \u2014 whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe-plus-jordan-peterson\">work<\/a> is now available on DailyWire+ \u2014 announced earlier this year that he is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-stunningly-corrupt-enterprise-jordan-peterson-blasts-academia-resigns-as-tenured-professor-at-university-of-toronto\">no longer a tenured professor<\/a> at the prestigious University of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson pointed to several trends destroying academia \u201cand, downstream, the general culture\u201d \u2014 including the end of objective testing and the rise of \u201cgrievance studies\u201d disciplines. He noted that accrediting boards for Canadian graduate clinical psychology training programs \u201care now planning to refuse to accredit university clinical programs unless they have a \u2018social justice\u2019 orientation.\u201d He also observed that colleagues must bow to diversity mandates by writing \u201cDIE statements\u201d to obtain research grants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey all lie (excepting the minority of true believers) and they teach their students to do the same,\u201d he lamented. \u201cAnd they do it constantly, with various rationalizations and justifications, further corrupting what is already a stunningly corrupt enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of California Los Angeles anthropology professor Joseph Manson revealed that he is leaving academia due to the \u201cWoke takeover of higher education.\u201d A blog post from Manson, who decided to retire at the age of 62, details the ways in which \u201cmilitant\u201d faculty members are upending the university, even causing a decline in academic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1542070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1542070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}