Many college professors these days see themselves as “change agents,” dedicated to transforming the world so it will be green, equitable, safe, fair, and so on. Few college leaders have a problem with that, but Americans ought to have a big problem with these activist educators.

So argues Professor Martha McCaughey in today’s Martin Center article.

She writes:

Some professors actually describe themselves as “scholar-activists.” Teaching a contentious ideological position, not as a subject for critical examination but, rather, with the intent to dogmatically advocate for it in the hope that students accept it as true, represents an abuse of the influential position instructors hold over their students.”

Indeed it does represent an abuse, but one that most “progressives” are comfortable with. They think their noble end justifies it.

The activism does not come only from faculty ranks, but also from administrators, McCaughey observes. Many of them are just as imbued with the activist mindset, as are the most zealous professors. The result is a steady diet of leftism for students.