Attention parents: The following message is going to sound alarmist. If your child is enrolled at an American college or university for the upcoming fall, they are at risk, depending on what school they’ve chosen, of being politically indoctrinated.

According to New York University professor Jonathan Haidt and at least 1,000 other like-minded educators at Heterodox Academy, a schism within the U.S. university system must soon take place. Over the course of the next few academic years, American schools will need to choose a single purpose, or telos (to use Aristotle’s term), and wholeheartedly commit to its pursuit. The options, at least in the eyes of the concerned professors, are clear-cut: Schools can either follow the model laid out by the University of Chicago, as detailed in their statement on freedom of expression, or, in contrast, take up the cause of social justice, ridding the world of all its inequities, one gender studies course at a time. Haidt joked recently that Brown University has volunteered to “take the leadership position” for institutions who choose the latter.