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| '''Heterodox Academy''' ('''HxA''') is a ] ] of professors to counteract what they see as a lack of viewpoint diversity on college campuses |
'''Heterodox Academy''' ('''HxA''') is a ] ] of professors to counteract what they see as a lack of viewpoint diversity on college campuses. Their membership includes professors, graduate students, postdoctoral students, and academic administrators. | ||
| ==History== | ==History== | ||
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| Abbreviation | HxA |
|---|---|
| Formation | 2015; 10 years ago (2015) |
| Founder | Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz and Jonathan Haidt |
| Location | |
| Executive Director | Debra Mashek |
| Website | heterodoxacademy |
Heterodox Academy (HxA) is a non-profit advocacy group of professors to counteract what they see as a lack of viewpoint diversity on college campuses. Their membership includes professors, graduate students, postdoctoral students, and academic administrators.
History
In 2011 Jonathan Haidt, a psychologist with the University of Virginia, gave a talk at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in which he attributed the lack of political conservatives in social psychology to a lack of diversity. Haidt specifically discussed a post by José Duarte, then a grad student at Arizona State University, who said he had been denied a place at another PhD program due to his political views.
Haidt and Duarte (along with Jarret T. Crawford, Charlotta Stern, Lee Jussim, and Philip E. Tetlock) collaborated on a study of political diversity within their field, which was published Behavioral and Brain Sciences in 2015. Also in 2015, Haidt was contacted by Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, a Georgetown University law professor, who had given a talk to the Federalist Society discussing a similar lack of conservatives in his field. The two formed "Heterodox Academy" to address this issue. Initial funding for the group came from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation and The Achelis and Bodman Foundation. The Heterodox Academy website was launched with 25 members in September 2015. A series of campus freedom of speech controversies, such as those surrounding Erika Christakis at Yale and the 2015–16 University of Missouri protests, coincided with an increase in membership.
In June 2018, Heterodox Academy held an inaugural Open Mind Conference in New York City, featuring several academic guests recently involved in campus free speech issues, like Robert Zimmer, Lucía Martínez Valdivia, Allison Stanger, Alice Dreger, and Heather Heying.
Membership
Membership was initially open to tenured and pre-tenure professors, but has been expanded to adjunct professors, graduate students, and postdoctorals. The group has a selective membership application process which is partly intended to address imbalances toward any particular political ideology. In July 2017, the group had 800 members internationally. As of February 2018, around 1500 college professors had joined Heterodox Academy, along with a couple hundred graduate students.
Ideology and goals
In 2018 the group's website described its mission as encouraging political diversity to allow dissent and challenge errors.
The group produced the Heterodox Academy Guide to Colleges – a college ranking guide in which 150 prominent universities and colleges were ranked in their support of ideological diversity and free speech.
Heterodox Academy formally describes itself as non-partisan. Heterodox Academy has been described as advancing conservative viewpoints on college campuses by playing into or presenting the argument that such views are suppressed by left-wing bias or political correctness. Commentators such as The New York Observer's Davis Richardson; Vox's Zack Beauchamp; and Chris Quintana, writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, have disputed Heterodox Academy's assumption that college campuses are facing a "free-speech crisis", noting the lack of data to support it and arguing that advocacy groups such as Heterodox Academy functionally do more to narrow the scope of academic debates than any of the biases they allege.
See also
- Chicago principles
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
- Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship
References
- ^ Friedersdorf, Conor (February 6, 2018). "A New Leader in the Push for Diversity of Thought on Campus". The Atlantic. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
- ^ Smith, Emily Esfahani (June 17, 2018). "A Movement Rises to Take Back Higher Education". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 18 June 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ Lerner, Maura (April 24, 2018). "Nurturing a new diversity on campus: 'Diversity of thought'". Star Tribune. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
- Tierney, John (February 7, 2011). "Social Scientist Sees Bias Within". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 9 August 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
- Konnikova, Maria (2014-10-30). "Is Social Psychology Biased Against Republicans?". ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2019-07-16.
- Duarte, José L.; Crawford, Jarret T.; Stern, Charlotta; Haidt, Jonathan; Jussim, Lee; Tetlock, Philip E. (July 18, 2014). "Political diversity will improve social psychological science". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 38 (e130). Cambridge University Press (published 2015): e130. doi:10.1017/S0140525X14000430. PMID 25036715.
- ^ Goldstein, Evan R. (June 11, 2017). "The Gadfly: Can Jonathan Haidt Calm the Culture Wars?". The Chronicle Review. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 63 (40) (published July 7, 2017): B6–9. Retrieved March 6, 2019.
- "Variety and Heterodox Academy: The Chris Martin Interview". TheBestSchools.org. August 2016. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
- Rubenstein, Adam (June 22, 2018). "Heterodoxy Now". The Weekly Standard. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- Bartlett, Tom (June 21, 2018). "A Conference's Recipe for 'Viewpoint Diversity': More Free Play, More John Stuart Mill". The Chronicle of Higher Education. New York. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Belkin, Douglas (June 24, 2017). "Colleges Pledge Tolerance for Diverse Opinions, But Skeptics Remain". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on June 27, 2017. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
- Richardson, Bradford (October 24, 2016). "Harvard among least intellectually diverse universities: Report". The Washington Times. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
- Richardson, Davis (4 June 2018). "Is a Red Pill Tidal Wave Brewing in Academia?". Retrieved 2019-02-28.
- ^ Beauchamp, Zack (31 August 2018). "The myth of a campus free speech crisis". Vox. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
- Quintana, Chris (30 April 2018). "The Real Free-Speech Crisis Is Professors Being Disciplined for Liberal Views, a Scholar Finds". The Chronicle of Higher Education. ISSN 0009-5982. Retrieved 2019-02-28.