In a new piece at American Thinker, Robert Weissberg calls out higher ed for dishonesty.

Lies, Damned Lies and University Lies

Lying is an inescapable part of public life but not all liars are equally tolerated. Lying politicians are sufferable but the when it comes to universities, the bar is much higher. After all, if universities refuse to separate truth from falsehoods, who will? It’s not that universities always get it right; rather uncovering the truth is, or at least should be, their paramount mission.

Unfortunately, as the PC virus continues to spread plague-like, universities have increasingly embraced falsehoods and, to make matter worse, they do so publicly and proudly.

Don’t believe this? Let me offer Exhibit A: a full-page advertisement in the June 30th New York Times titled “Diversity in Higher Education Remains an Essential National Priority.” The ad was sponsored by 37 educational organizations, a Who’s Who of the higher-education establishment, from the Association of American Law Schools to the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. The ad was triggered by the recent Supreme Court decision Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin involving racial preferences in university admission that might eventually result in limiting or even abolishing racial preferences.

The advertisement offered a stout defense of racial preferences under the guise of defending diversity in higher education.

Everything in the ad was an outright lie or a vacuous, impossible to prove banality. It makes “I did not have a sexual relationship with that woman” look like rank amateurism.

It begins by claiming that today’s manic infatuation with campus diversity as a legal doctrine can be traced back to a 1957 statement by Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. A breathtaking lie. I’ve studied racial preferences/diversity for a half century, and I’ve never encountered Frankfurter’s statement and, more importantly, his celebration of academic freedom has zero to do with racial preferences in university admissions. Zero.