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Seikas Victor Davis Hansen and he is the Martin E. Anderson senior fellow with the Hoover Institution and the way to Marsha Busky distinguished fellow in history at Hillsdale college his official website the blade of Perseus can be found at Victor Hansen.com. You should be checking that out. You should also be subscribing and I'll tell you why a little later in today's show. We're going to begin by talking about accreditation.

And that colleges and how like every other process that goes on the higher education, it has gone terribly woke Victor knows a thing of two or three about accreditation. So we will get his thoughts on that and plenty more the Stanford law school speech debacle that's still an ongoing new things are happening on that front.

And what else we have ultra victors written a series for his website that's worth talking about. So we'll get to that start off with the accreditation right after these important messages.

We're back with the Victor Davis Hansen show so Victor first topic Victor like to get your thoughts on is accreditation and as many know accreditation is what colleges go through every ex amount of years.

I guess once upon a time eight cents right this is the school that claiming to teach biology actually teaching biology et cetera.

But like everything else, wokeness has infected accrediting agencies of what there are several in the country. So national review of it and I'm going to just read a little piece from segment from a national review article published today by Robert Manser.

He's the president of the American Academy for liberal education and his piece is titled the arbitrary monopoly crushing higher education.

And Victor, let me just read the beginning of this piece and then get your thoughts because you've been through this several times as a as a professor and your involvement over the years with several academic institutions.

So here's how the piece begins in early February, the board of trustees of the University of North Carolina voted unanimously to develop a new school of civic life and leadership inspired by Arizona State University's highly successful school of civic and economic thought and leadership.

The trustees, this is the trustees of North Carolina sought their own great civics program and more protection for campus free free expression similar initiatives are underway elsewhere, but this initiative has received considerable attention because it drew a public rebuke from the president of the university's accreditor according to the Wall Street Journal, the president of the Southern association of colleges and school commissions.

And all commissions on colleges, SAC, SCOC, what an acronym stated publicly that either quote we're going to get them to change it or the institution will be on warning and quote people who want great civics programs to succeed may wonder why such a parent intimidation tactics are being used against a new one.

So may also wonder whether such tactics are linked to a growing effort by a creditors to promote an alternative civics on college campuses, one centered on quote equity, mindedness, end quote still others may wonder why we have a creditors at all Victor, I'm sure you're not surprised that accrediting agencies are implementing wokeness but give us your thoughts on this and maybe you have some experiences that you'd want to share with.

Well, I mean every creditors accrediting was everybody knew I've been accredited and I've been an accreditor on a board, I think at one point I was asked to accredite the military history program with the Naval Postgraduate School what you what you traditionally do you go look at the curriculum you talk to the faculty you match faculty profiles with the courses you look at the grading.

You and use make sure that it's all at an academic standard that one would expect and it was a wonderful program when I was being accredited I remember somebody came in and to a credit the department of modern and classical languages and the creditors came in there just professors jack that one extra money usually are retired professors they come in and they said.

Professor Hansen I see your teaching four classes what are you doing here's your syllabus but I'm that was it and so and they want to see if you know if you have a Spanish program do you have X number of upper division classes if you're offering a master or not they don't what would not get you accredited if you're saying.

Powell State San Bernardino or UC Irvine offers a master's in Russian language and then you look at there's one faculty member and they're doing independent studies you know so that's kind of stuff but not now because like everything else it's warped with this.

Woke infection and so now it's to what degree does this academic program.

Focus primarily on diversity equity and inclusion and so what they really hate jack or civics because people now.

In response to these horrendous polls were and I quoted them and the dying citizen where you see people.

You know the sparse wrangle banner call percent you know how you know the words of the.

You know what the battle of Gettysburg was do you know who John Adams was do you know what the Gettysburg address was do you know who would roll they don't know anything and because they haven't been taught that because the sense of commission or that they've had this diversity equity inclusion stuff that to the degree these names even came up.

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