It’s evident that the woke agenda continues making headway throughout most of our colleges and universities. Exactly how does this happen, though?

In today’s Martin Center article, Bucknell University professor Alexander Riley offers his observations on the topic.

Riley writes:

A view of the university as a site for radical moral and political propagandizing is getting stronger every day, steadily erasing the traditional view that the mission of higher education is the pursuit of objective truth. Every day, we get stories of how this transformation is operating at the administrative level. But how does this look on the ground? Much of the change is happening at what we sociologists call the micro-level. Rules, structures, and norms are transformed, to be sure, but they take effect in the actions of individuals in empirical situations.

One way that wokeness advances is through the students, many of whom have been so indoctrinated by the time they get to college that they reflexively complain when they hear a faculty member say something that bothers them. Those complaints often lead to trouble for professors, who in turn start to avoid topics that might upset leftist students.

Read the whole thing.