Redefining American Higher Education
Hubert Rampersad, Ph.D.
“Something is wrong with American higher education; it’s going in the wrong direction. Indoctrination, corrupt DEI policies, antisemitism, corruption, politics, faculty bias, mismanagement, plagiarism, and fake science publishing plague American universities. These issues hinder progress and innovation and endanger lives. The Hamas war has shed light on the values of American universities. It has highlighted a significant failure at the core of American higher education, where the conduct of the faculty and management of these institutions poses an existential threat to America. They need to re-evaluate their values and practices.”–Hubert Rampersad.
“American colleges and universities need to reconsider their corrupt DEI policies, ensuring they are fair, transparent, and effective. While it’s important to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in leadership hiring processes, ensuring that the most qualified individuals are selected based on their expertise and capabilities is equally crucial. Simply hiring leaders in response to the Black Lives Matter and gender movement may not guarantee the desired outcomes and could potentially compromise the quality of higher education leadership. To address these concerns, school leaders need to move beyond diversity, equity, inclusion, gender, and race theater, and instead focus on implementing sustainable DEI initiatives. Rebuilding trust in our school leaders requires a reconnection with authenticity, humility, and integrity. By fostering empathy and promoting inner alignment, leaders can create an ethical and sustainable culture of ECO-DEI within American higher education institutions. This shift in focus will not only strengthen the educational environment but also ensure that DEI efforts are embedded in the core values and practices of American colleges and universities, benefiting all members of the community.” –-Hubert Rampersad
Antisemitism at American universities is growing, especially at Harvard University, Ivy League universities, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, Columbia University, University of Michigan Law School, Northwestern University, Yale University, Cornell University, New York University, Indiana University, California State University Long Beach, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of California-Davis, and Arizona State University. Hamas War Shows Us What American Colleges and Universities Stand For. Pro-Hamas protests expose the massive failure at the heart of American higher education. There is an Existential Threat to American Higher Education.
Higher education in America has become a hotbed for terrorist-sympathizing antisemitism
Hundreds of Harvard faculty sign letter rebuking university leaders’ tepid response to Hamas ‘war crimes. Nearly
three dozen Harvard student groups issued statements in support of Palestine following the Hamas terrorist attack that killed 1,300 innocent civilians, including 29 Americans, read “Famed Harvard Professor Exposes Dark Secret”. Many students at U.S. universities blame Israel for the Hamas militants’ attack on the Jewish state. More than 30 student groups at Harvard University signed on to a letter stating they ‘hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding
violence.’ Read “Harvard for Hamas? Something is very twisted on America’s university campuses“. College campuses around America have come out in support of terrorists who last weekend raped and murdered and beheaded innocent people (including children, women, and the elderly) in Israel. Most of these students seem perfectly OK with defending the atrocities committed when Hamas invaded Israel in a surprise attack in which the terrorists murdered at least 1,200 Israelis; 27 Americans also died and more than a dozen are missing. It seems that higher education in America has become a hotbed for terrorist-sympathizing antisemitism. It has become a center of indoctrination and anti-Israel hate. The war against Israel has shown the ugly unethical side of American higher education. It shows the mismanagement of American colleges and universities, and that something is really wrong with American higher education.
Student organizations at more than a dozen prominent U.S. universities have issued statements pointing the full blame of the Hamas attack on Israel. Those also include the stupid left-brain squad members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) blaming Israel and supporting Hamas. 
It seems that many prominent American universities and the squad group are full of stupid people whose stupidity is a constant danger to America and the world. Some of these people are prominent politicians, professors, and in leadership positions at these universities who spread their stupid ideas among their students and followers. Under the guise of academic freedom, they tell lies to their students and followers as a result of their stupidity and hatred of the Jews. This is not only due to the stupidity of left-brain politicians, school leaders, and professors but also due to the curriculum they teach at colleges and universities across America. Read “Bill Maher mocks Ivy Leagues schools
for ‘indoctrination’ and anti-Israel hate: College ‘makes you stupid’”. In this article, I will present a solution to fix this stupidity in America and its universities and colleges.
DEI
DEI at American universities and colleges does not actually promote inclusivity. It is the opposite of diversity of thought. Students are classified into groups based on their race and heritage. DEI is being used as a cover to justify discrimination. Jews are considered “oppressors” by the DEI system, so the discrimination they face is somehow justified by its believers. This kind of ideology at American universities and colleges needs to be eliminated.
The Hamas war has brought to light the values of American colleges and universities. It has exposed a significant failure at the core of American higher education, where the conduct of the faculty and management of these institutions poses an existential threat to America. It highlights the mismanagement of American colleges and universities and that something is wrong with American higher education. While there are many ways to address these issues, one approach could be to redefine higher education in America by redesigning academic departments and developing a new holistic core curriculum. They need to reconsider their corrupt diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, ensuring they are fair, transparent, and effective. Simply hiring leaders in response to the Black Lives Matter and gender movement could compromise the quality of leadership, read “Why DEI Sucks, How to Fix It”.
ECO-DEI will help prevent hiring left-brain antisemitic racial bias faculty (faculty bias) and promote a more balanced approach to hiring faculty with expertise in personal disruptive innovation, ethics, constitutionalism, civic virtue, family life, religious freedom, and American principles. This approach can help create a more ethical and balanced higher education system in America.
Collective stupidity in America
The term “stupidity” seems insulting, but it is not a lack of intelligence or knowledge but an inability to use your cognitive skills effectively. You don’t have to be exceptionally knowledgeable or highly educated to succeed in life, make good decisions, have good judgment, and positively impact the world. You may have heard of ‘collective intelligence,’ but there is also ‘collective stupidity’; read Bobby Azarian’s article “A neuroscientist explains why stupidity is an existential threat to America.” Collective stupidity in politics and at US campuses is very dangerous for America.
Stupid donors are endangering lives
Influential wealthy donors to the above-mentioned universities are also very stupid to sponsor these universities. These billionaires don’t know that they support Hamas and terrorist-sympathizing antisemitism in this way. Ivy League universities, for example, have the relative luxury of being enormously wealthy due to these big donors. Philanthropy is the single largest contributor to revenue at Harvard University, accounting for 45% of the university’s $5.8 billion in income last year. Philanthropic gifts accounted for 9% of the university’s operating budget last year and 36% of its $51 billion endowment amassed over decades. Kenneth Griffin has donated more than half a billion dollars to Harvard University, committing $300 million this year alone. Cliff Asness, Marc Rowan, David Magerman, and the Huntsman Family gave billions to UPenn. Donors often give for specific purposes — facilities, faculty research, technology on campus, athletics, scholarships, and financial aid for low-income students. But donors don’t know that their money is also going to students who love Hamas, defend real violence, and support terrorist-sympathizing antisemitism. So these donors are also endangering lives.
Dunning-Kruger effect
According to Azarian, stupidity is a consequence of the inability to be aware of one’s limitations. This type of cognitive failure has a scientific name: the Dunning-Kruger effect. The Dunning-Kruger effect is a well-known psychological phenomenon that describes the tendency of individuals to overestimate their level of intelligence, knowledge, or competence in a given area. At the same time, they may also misjudge the intelligence, expertise, or competence of others. In other words, they are ignorant of their own ignorance (stupidity). Stupid people don’t know they’re stupid, they don’t know they don’t know this.
Danger of stupidity in America
What’s especially troubling about the Dunning-Kruger effect is that people are attracted to confident leaders, encouraging politicians to be overconfident in their beliefs and opinions. For example, stupid left-brainers Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) who are blaming Israel and supporting Hamas, and Donald Trump suggested that wind turbine noise causes cancer (a claim not supported by any empirical research). It’s bad enough that these politicians, professors, and students fail to acknowledge their ignorance. But what is most disturbing is that they are being praised for their stupidity.
How to fix stupidity in America
Stupidity in America can be fixed sustainably. By becoming aware of our ignorance
(stupidity), we can adjust our reasoning, behavior, and decision-making to consider our intellectual shortcomings and develop our emotional intelligence. This is what my latest book “ Eco-Design Thinking for Personal, Corporate, and Social Innovation: How to Become a Disruptive Eco-Design Thinker Like Elon Musk” is about. I hope that politicians, school leaders, donors, and students in America will read this book to educate themselves and their followers to gain a deeper self-awareness of their own cognitive limitations and develop a higher consciousness. They must learn to be aware of their own ignorance.
They must evaluate their own stupidity, competence, and wisdom and develop the ethical skills they need to seek more knowledge, as well as build their competence, creativity, and emotional intelligence to become better and smarter human beings, and thus become honest critical thinkers. Read my articles “How to Redesign Your Life and Become a Disruptor“, “50 tips to become a critical thinker” and “Cultivating Critical Thinking in the Age of AI”. 
To this end, I have developed the globally acclaimed “ Personal Disruptive Innovation 
” method; click this link. This innovative method starts with self-knowledge, self-awareness, self-learning, and self-responsibility to learn and unlearn. Personal disruptive innovation is indispensable, especially given the increasing stupidity in American society.
Fighting the stupidity crisis in America
Fighting America’s stupidity crisis requires cultivating self-awareness, critical thinking, constant curiosity and improvement, learning/unlearning, personal integrity, 
innovation, and helping others do the same. This fight starts with yourself. It begins with your personal responsibility to prioritize continuous learning and unlearning. Personal disruptive innovation is a tool with which this battle can be won so that collective stupidity can be converted into collective smartness and a better world can be created sustainably; read my article “How To Design a Better World.”
Fighting stupidity at prestigious American colleges and universities
Above mentioned universities are slowing progress, killing innovation, and endangering lives. There are so many new things about sustainability, ethics, innovation, creativity, leadership, and management you don’t learn at these prestigious universities and business schools, read my article “Redefining American Higher Education”.
We need to redefine higher education in America by redesigning academic departments, developing a new holistic core curriculum, eliminating current corrupt diversity, equity, and inclusion policies to prevent hiring left-brain antisemitic racial faculty (faculty bias), getting rid of current left-brain faculty and replacing them with ethical combined left-right-brain faculty with expertise in personal disruptive innovation, ethics, constitutionalism, civic virtue, family life, religious freedom, and American principles. Why do American colleges and universities neglect this important issue?
Important advice to the leadership of American colleges and universities
Change the institution sustainably, by “Fostering a Culture of Ethics on Campus, Academic Integrity, and Sustainable Good Governance”.
Replace current corrupt diversity, equity, and inclusion policies with ECO-DEI. This will prevent hiring left-brain antisemitic racial faculty and faculty bias; Emphasize authentic sustainability initiatives; Re-evaluate your curriculum to ensure that it is sustainable in the long run; Get rid of faculty members who exhibit left-brain and antisemitic racial tendencies with those who possess ethical expertise in personal disruptive innovation, ethics, constitutionalism, civic virtue, family life, religious freedom, and American principles; Prioritize creativity over knowledge; Empower the educational experience with the help of AI; Introduce students to the Personal Disruptive Innovation system, which will help them (re)design their lives, unlock their creative potential, foster a growth mindset, and achieve success in their personal and professional endeavors. This will help them prevent emotional distress, unleash their creative potential, meet social needs, and foster sustainability; Embedding Personal Disruptive Innovation in the curriculum is essential to enable left-brain students to develop their ethical skills, and emotional intelligence, and become ethical critical thinkers; Redesigning academic departments will also be beneficial; Instead of focusing on the number of publications and famous speakers, it’s better to concentrate on innovative research.
Read also “How to Restore the Higher Purpose of American Higher Education”.
If you’re interested in gaining more knowledge about Rampersad’s DEI program, you may want to consider becoming a Certified ECO-DEI Practitioner.
You may also consider attending his Orlando–Tampa Event: The Future of Innovation
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Hubert Rampersad, Ph.D., is a visionary leader in innovative solutions for genuine sustainability, disruptive design innovation, critical thinking in the age of AI, authentic personal branding, and entrepreneurial leadership. He holds a Ph.D. in Innovation Sciences, an MSc in Technology Engineering & Robotics, and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from leading accredited universities in the Netherlands/Europe (Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology). He is a well-known futurist, advocating for genuine sustainability on a global scale. With extensive knowledge and expertise, he has authored 25 books on the topics above in many languages and is highly regarded for his insights in these fields. One of his books, “Total Performance Scorecard,” has been published in 20 languages. Dorothy Leonard, an innovation professor at Harvard Business School, wrote the book’s foreword. Rampersad has also previously served as a guest lecturer at MIT Sloan and was featured in BusinessWeek. He was a design innovation coach at ASML (the Most Important Tech Company in the World).
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