Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is offering up big bucks to academics who are interested in pushing the social justice narrative. This extends beyond professorial staff, and to students who attend the college. The university is prepared to spend upwards of tens of thousands of dollars for either teaching, promoting, or taking research into the concept of social justice.
According to The College Fix, undergraduate students at CWRU have the capability to apply for up to $2,500 for engagement in a any social justice related research project. Also, graduate students are welcomed to apply for up to $3,500 under the same criteria. Professors are also able to receive grants of up to $2,500 with the criteria that they structure their curriculum to accommodate social justice related issues.
Surprisingly, this is not the first time the Cleveland-based university has conflated leftist delusion into their academia. The College Fix reports that three years ago, Prof. Daniel Lacks of the university’s engineering department received a grant, the amount unspecified in the article, to design a capstone course for seniors graduating in engineering. The plight of this assignment was that their research had to be infused with social justice.
Typically the goal behind capstone courses in university settings is to offer undergraduate students approaching their graduation the ability to provide analysis of their studies while incorporating parts of their college experiences. So far, only 10 students have reportedly participated in Lacks’ specific capstone course. Sadly however, 10 too many students were assigned with utilizing their precious knowledge in the complex field of engineering and amalgamating this with left-wing paranoia and lunacy.
Professors who are interested in participating in a long-term social justice project are able to apply for $10,000 in support. According to the application page of the grant from the Case Western Reserve Social Justice Institute, “Social justice is defined as eradicating systems of power and oppression with the purpose of advancing fairness and equality through the redistribution of resources and opportunities and exalting human dignity and respect.”
Actual equality in a given society doesn’t come from taking the wealth of certain individuals and reallocating it to those who don’t happen to fall under the same social bracket, essentially communist tax policy in order to receive egalitarianism on the basis of income. But even if true, this has nothing to do with the scientific field engineering. The definition of engineering is “the application of science and mathematics by which the properties of matter and the sources of energy in nature are made useful to people”.
There are numerous fields that aim at “addressing the roots of social inequality and thinking about solutions to many of these institutionalized -isms.” These include anthropology, nursing, public health, sociology, and even women and gender studies.
Students who desire to learn engineering at the college level, for $46,000 a year or more should not be subjected to political curriculum, and certainly not because of the influence of grants.
