Today, so-called “social justice” is rampant in Oklahoma higher education. Whether it’s OU imposing a coercive “diversity” regime, OSU denying a promotion to a professor who served in the Trump administration, UCO informing us that “a person could be a man or a woman or both or neither,” or any number of other examples, it’s clear that “there is an endemic rot of indoctrination, politicization, and intellectual intimidation that is eviscerating the historical purpose and nature of our institutions of higher learning.”
See for yourself:
“Oklahoma higher-ed job postings (conservatives need not apply)” | Brandon Dutcher, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“OU needs to come clean about Jones Day investigation” | Norman Transcript
“‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ is required reading in OU class” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU touts ‘pregnant people’” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU College of Medicine infected with CRT, DEI” | Critical Race Training in Education
“OSU students can be disciplined for ‘incorrect pronoun usage’” | Jonathan Small, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“OSU tries to intimidate students” | Jonathan Small, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“OSU president Kayse Shrum in denial” | Jonathan Small, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“OSU president Kayse Shrum in denial” | Jonathan Small, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“OU seeks a ‘climate justice’ professor ‘oriented to social action’” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU’s drag-queen spending this year exceeds $56,000” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU study: Native American population growth raises climate-change risk” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“UCO requires English professor to embrace race-based discrimination” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“DEI’s reach now extends to Oklahoma community colleges” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU med school professor redefines ‘fertility’ to be more inclusive” | Maggie Kelly, The College Fix
“Experts warn Oklahoma college DEI programs likely illegal” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU advertises name-changing resources to ‘trans and nonbinary students’” | Melanie Wilcox and Marya Ruth Dunning, Campus Reform
“Silencing is ‘prevalent’: OU fares poorly on free-speech ranking” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“Oklahoma law schools silent after Supreme Court ruling” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“As tuition and fees soar, OU features drag queen at freshman orientation” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“Donors flee from ‘very disturbed’ university in Oklahoma amid radical DEI agenda: ‘Better named DIE’” | Hannah Grossman, FOX News
“As OU pays drag queen $18,000, lawmakers call for defunding” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU plans to hold identity-based graduation ceremonies” | Austin Browne, Campus Reform
“OU says DEI to ‘permeate’ business school” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU drag show declared one of nation’s largest” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU touts ‘queer sexperts’” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OSU embracing worrisome policies” | Jonathan Small, The Journal Record
“Oklahoma medical schools should educate, not indoctrinate” | Stanley Goldfarb, MD, Do No Harm
“Oklahoma colleges spent $83 million on ‘diversity’ programs” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OSU ‘Condom Bingo’ set to raise sexual health awareness” | Hayden Alexander, The O’Colly
“DEI and freedom cannot coexist. It’s time for Oklahoma leaders to act” | David Randall, Ph.D., National Association of Scholars
“OSU accused of violating students’ constitutional rights” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OSU trained students on how to be trans ‘allies’ using a ‘gender unicorn’” | Alexa Schwerha, The Daily Caller
“12 Oklahoma universities discriminate against white and Asian students: federal complaint” | Jack Applewhite, The College Fix
“Civil-rights complaint filed over Oklahoma colleges’ discrimination” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“Cancel culture database (Oklahoma)” | The College Fix
“Only 4 Republican professors found in OU humanities departments” | Jackson Walker, The College Fix
“Professor says OU groupthink undermines excellence” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“CRT in OU teacher training” | David Randall, Ph.D., National Association of Scholars
“UCO hosts DEI indoctrination” | Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“UCO: broke and still digging” | Trent England, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“OU Gender + Equality Center to host first drag workshop” | Cooper Marshall, OU Daily
“Oklahoma to fund transgender procedures on kids?” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU leader bashes CRT law” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU prof defends person wishing ‘excruciating’ death of queen” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“University of Oklahoma College of Medicine allegedly trains students in woke ideology” | Darius Avinger, Campus Reform
“Red states, including Oklahoma, fund pediatric transgender procedures at public universities” | Jonathan McGee, The College Fix
“Chinese government maintains presence at OU” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU accused of forcing students to engage in political speech” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“Complaint alleges racial discrimination at OU” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“Oklahoma higher ed is hiring (conservatives need not apply)” | David Randall, Ph.D., National Association of Scholars
“UCO investigates ‘bias, hate, and prejudice’ on campus” | Mike Brake, Center for Independent Journalism
“Free speech in the crosshairs at OU, OSU, UCO” | Mike Brake, Center for Independent Journalism
“After ‘Drag Queen Story Hour,’ OSU president says ‘we will use this occasion to consider our policies’” | Brandon Dutcher, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“OU children's hospital facilitates transition surgeries for kids under 16” | J. Mark Ousley, Unwokable
“OSU-OKC draws civil-rights complaint” | Maddison Farris, Center for Independent Journalism
“Race panel speaker: OU games celebrate white supremacy” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“Discrimination lawsuit cites OSU dean’s aggressive anti-Trump views” | Mike Brake, Center for Independent Journalism
“‘Diversity’ ideology spreads to OU engineering, atmospheric sciences, energy” | David Randall, National Association of Scholars
“OU dedicates full week to diversity, equity, and inclusion” | Christian Schneider, The College Fix
“OU group places menstrual products in men’s bathrooms” | Brandon Dutcher, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“OSU Writing Center seeks ‘antiracist’ tutors who will ‘accept all Englishes’” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“University of Oklahoma English course to focus on ‘Black Power’” | Logan Dubil, The College Fix
“OSU paying $40,000 to speaker who said Trump is ‘a racist’ and ‘these people behind him are trash’” | Mike Brake, Center for Independent Journalism
“Even Oklahoma's teaching of English has gone woke” | David Randall, Ph.D., National Association of Scholars
“BIPOC+ and LGBTQ: Oklahoma higher ed is hiring” | Mike Brake, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“OU seminar says male-female is ‘too limiting,’ marginalizes the ‘gender fluid’’ | Staci Elder Hensley, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“‘Land acknowledgment statements’ abound, but some say reparations needed” | J.E. McReynolds, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“OSU undermining and belittling parents” | J. Mark Ousley, Unwokable
“Though ‘allowed by contract,’ OU denies communist influence on curriculum” | Mike Brake, Center for Independent Journalism
“Law review editors at OU behaving badly” | David Bernstein, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
“OU’s lobbying pays off for school, not student rights” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU Health suggests hysterectomies for males?” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“Woke librarians and indigenous people of color: Oklahoma higher ed is hiring” | J.E. McReynolds, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“OSU pushes radical gender theory into rural areas” | J. Mark Ousley, Unwokable
“Is Oklahoma medicine going woke?” | David Randall, Ph.D., National Association of Scholars
“Race and indigeneity: Oklahoma higher ed is hiring” | Mike Brake, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“Warning: White people singing Rihanna could cause ‘microaggressions’ at OU” | Todd Starnes, Fox News
“Oklahoma colleges rank low in free-speech report” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“Oklahoma higher ed is hiring (diversity statement required)” | J.E. McReynolds, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“State colleges play role in nursing shortage, regent says” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU seeks ‘social justice’ math professor” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OSU targets children and youth with Queer Theory ideology” | J. Mark Ousley, Unwokable
“The fight for freedom begins on Oklahoma campuses” | David Randall, Ph.D., National Association of Scholars
“OSU offers ‘implicit bias’ training” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU thumbs its nose at Oklahomans—with ‘so few repercussions’” | Jonathan Small, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“‘OU Report It!’ hotline seeks anonymous reports of ‘suspected wrongdoing’” | Mike Brake, Center for Independent Journalism
“Left-wing activists capturing OU College of Education” | David Randall, Ph.D., National Association of Scholars
“OU offering master’s degree in Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice” | Ophelie Jacobson, Campus Reform
“Queer and Latinx studies: Oklahoma higher ed is hiring” | Brandon Dutcher, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“OU coaches say players can be disciplined over politics” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“Oklahoma State University groomers” | J. Mark Ousley, Unwokable
“Study finds ‘diversity’ bloat at OU, OSU” | Kaitlyn Jasper, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“OU, OSU have more diversity staff than history faculty” | Jonathan Small, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“Classroom censorship comes to the University of Oklahoma” | Kiara Kincaid, University of Oklahoma
“As OU touts ‘gender-affirming’ care, ex-transgenders warn against it” | Staci Elder Hensley, Center for Independent Journalism
“Preventing suicide by higher education” | Arthur Milikh, The Heritage Foundation
“OU athletes required to watch anti-Trump film” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“Did OU punish a female student for wrongthink?” | Jonathan Small, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“At USAO event, BLM leader touts cop killer” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU training shows instructors how to censor, indoctrinate students” | Daniel Burnett and Sabrina Conza, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
“OSU lawsuit points up bias in higher education” | Mike Brake, Center for Independent Journalism
“Oklahoma universities are teaching students to lie” | David Randall, Ph.D., National Association of Scholars
“Ban on racist stereotyping contrary to OU’s goals, president says” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU professor plays role in Facebook ban of Trump” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU students, staff to be graded on ‘antiracism’” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU scraps homecoming king and queen, gives ‘royalty’ title to two men” | Ariel Zilber, The Daily Mail
“Oklahoma Christian University hosts social-justice training” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“University of Central Oklahoma touts pronoun option ‘to affirm gender identity’” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“‘Living beyond gender’: UCO faculty discuss pronoun use” | Staci Elder Hensley, Center for Independent Journalism
“‘Diversity’ officials seek to transform OU” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“DEI at Oklahoma State University” | J. Mark Ousley, Unwokable
“OU diversity training requires students, faculty to agree with university-approved viewpoints” | Sabrina Conza, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
“OSU ‘diversity training’ says gender is ‘not only male and female’” | Mike Brake, Center for Independent Journalism
“Legislation could safeguard ‘reproductive justice,’ OU panelists say” | Mike Brake, Center for Independent Journalism
“Woke biology: Politicization comes to the hard sciences” | David Randall, Ph.D., National Association of Scholars
“OU tells staff: Embrace political correctness” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OSU enables more pronoun options” | Jennifer Maupin, The O’Colly
“Woke architecture and ‘underrepresented identities’: Oklahoma higher ed is hiring” | Brandon Dutcher, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“Tolerance, intolerance, and the University of Oklahoma” | Sam Storms, Bridgeway Church
“USAO’s Center for Social Justice and Racial Healing receives grant” | USAO News Bureau
“Citing Black Lives Matter, photos of retired white male professors to be taken down at the University of Oklahoma” | Jackson Walker, The College Fix
“In the name of ‘diversity,’ OU opposes equality” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“Oklahoma professors push back against campus groupthink, identity politics” | Staci Elder Hensley, Center for Independent Journalism
“‘Social justice’ rampant at OU” | David Randall, Ph.D., National Association of Scholars
“My (brief) look at diversity training at OU” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“Oklahoma law deans urge ‘antiracism’ requirement” | Mike Brake, Center for Independent Journalism
“Facing discrimination claims, OU settles with law professor” | Mike Brake, Center for Independent Journalism
“Is illiberal education a public good?” | Greg Forster, Ph.D.
“OU hosts former Communist Party candidate and accused terrorist” | Mike Brake, Center for Independent Journalism
“USAO event implies a narrow range of views among women” | Tina Korbe Dzurisin, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“Burns Hargis announces commitment to increase inclusion, diversity efforts at OSU” | ocolly.com
“Do you know what our public universities teach?” | Wade Burleson, Emmanuel Enid
“A strategic plan for OU” | David Randall, Ph.D., National Association of Scholars
“’Diversity, equity, and social justice’: Oklahoma higher ed is hiring” | Brandon Dutcher, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“Touting ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion,’ OU warns students ‘Boomer Sooner’ could be problematic” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“Oklahoma college removes Land Run monument” | Mike Brake, Center for Independent Journalism
“Does OU diversity training violate federal labor law?” | Mike Brake, Center for Independent Journalism
“Report highlights partisanship of Oklahoma professors” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU strategic plan will impose expensive, coercive diversity regime” | David Randall, Ph.D., National Association of Scholars
“University of Oklahoma cuts senior capstone experience while adding mandatory diversity class” | Christian Schneider, The College Fix
“Transparency needed in campus diversity training” | Adam Kissel
“Require budget transparency in Oklahoma higher ed” | David Randall, Ph.D., National Association of Scholars
“Are Oklahoma universities violating Trump’s executive order?” | Mike Brake, Center for Independent Journalism
“Sex discrimination in Oklahoma higher education” | Adam Kissel
“From climate justice to transgender studies, Oklahoma higher ed is hiring” | Brandon Dutcher, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“Oklahoma colleges rank poorly for free speech” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU response to ‘racist’ incident criticized by students” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“Conservative OU student group faces free-speech obstacles” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“Content of their privilege” | Jonathan Small, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“University of Oklahoma race workshop led by consultant who claims being on time is ‘white supremacy’” | The College Fix
“RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Shangela to headline OU's Crimson and Queens drag show” | Molly Kruse, OU Daily
“Separate but equal at OU” | Mike Brake, Center for Independent Journalism
“OU Gender + Equality Center to host LGBTQ ally training” | Jordan Hayden, OU Daily
“University of Oklahoma prof investigates how ‘leather community’ relates to the treatment of women” | Dave Huber, The College Fix
“Lankford targets Confucius Institute at OU, other colleges” | Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism
“Social justice and … fried chicken?” | David Deming, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
“OU handled incident poorly” | Andrew Spiropoulos, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
“The educational roots of injustice” | Greg Forster, Ph.D.
“Towards queering food studies: Foodways, heteronormativity, and hungry women in Chicana lesbian writing” | Julia C. Ehrhardt, University of Oklahoma
“Sex in the stacks” | Ricky Maranon, OU Daily“Anita Hill to keynote fundraising gala for new social justice project at USAO” | USAO News Bureau
“Oklahoma student government ditches ‘Boomer’ and ‘Sooner’ for more ‘sensitive’ words” | Genesis Sanchez, Campus Reform
“OU ‘Black Emergency Response Team’ issues new set of demands” | Dave Huber, The College Fix
“This week is all about condoms” | Emma Sullivan, OU Daily
“My letter to OU president David Boren and to the OU board of regents” | Sam Storms, Bridgeway Church
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