Portland State professor resigns, says university became 'Social Justice factory'

Portland State University professor Peter Boghossian has resigned in an open letter, which accuses the administration of fostering an environment hostile to intellectual inquiry and dissent.

"I never once believed —  nor do I now —  that the purpose of instruction was to lead my students to a particular conclusion," Boghossian wrote to Provost Susan Jeffords. "Rather, I sought to create the conditions for rigorous thought; to help them gain the tools to hunt and furrow for their own conclusions. This is why I became a teacher and why I love teaching. But brick by brick, the university has made this kind of intellectual exploration impossible. It has transformed a bastion of free inquiry into a Social Justice factory whose only inputs were race, gender, and victimhood and whose only outputs were grievance and division," he added.