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In 2016 and 2017, Heterodox Academy published an annual Heterodox Academy Guide to Colleges, a [[college ranking guide|ranking]] based on "political conformity and orthodoxy".<ref name="Belkin2017" /><ref>{{cite news|last1=Richardson|first1=Bradford|title=Harvard among least intellectually diverse universities: Report|url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/24/harvard-among-least-intellectually-diverse-schools/|accessdate=May 24, 2018|work=[[The Washington Times]]|date=October 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525063125/https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/24/harvard-among-least-intellectually-diverse-schools/|archive-date=25 May 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://heterodoxacademy.org/the-heterodox-academy-guide-to-colleges-starting-a-methodological-discussion/|title=The Heterodox Academy Guide to Colleges: Starting A Methodological Discussion|date=October 27, 2016|website=Heterodox Academy}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/06/19/heterodox-academy-releases-updated-guide-to-colleges/|title=Heterodox Academy Releases Updated Guide to Colleges | HeterodoxAcademy.org|date=November 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171104160506/https://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/06/19/heterodox-academy-releases-updated-guide-to-colleges/|archive-date=2017-11-04}}</ref> |
In 2016 and 2017, Heterodox Academy published an annual Heterodox Academy Guide to Colleges, a [[college ranking guide|ranking]] based on "political conformity and orthodoxy".<ref name="Belkin2017" /><ref>{{cite news|last1=Richardson|first1=Bradford|title=Harvard among least intellectually diverse universities: Report|url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/24/harvard-among-least-intellectually-diverse-schools/|accessdate=May 24, 2018|work=[[The Washington Times]]|date=October 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525063125/https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/24/harvard-among-least-intellectually-diverse-schools/|archive-date=25 May 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://heterodoxacademy.org/the-heterodox-academy-guide-to-colleges-starting-a-methodological-discussion/|title=The Heterodox Academy Guide to Colleges: Starting A Methodological Discussion|date=October 27, 2016|website=Heterodox Academy}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/06/19/heterodox-academy-releases-updated-guide-to-colleges/|title=Heterodox Academy Releases Updated Guide to Colleges | HeterodoxAcademy.org|date=November 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171104160506/https://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/06/19/heterodox-academy-releases-updated-guide-to-colleges/|archive-date=2017-11-04}}</ref> |
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From 2018 through 2021, Heterodox Academy produced a podcast called ''Half Hour of Heterodoxy'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Half Hour of Heterodoxy |url=https://radiopublic.com/half-hour-of-heterodoxy-GAOokZ/episodes |website=Radio Public |publisher=Heterodox Academy |access-date=30 January 2022}}</ref> after which they launched the podcast ''Heterodox Out Loud''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Heterodox Out Loud |url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/heterodox-out-loud/id1550885150 |website=Apple Podcasts |publisher=Heterodox Academy |access-date=30 January 2022}}</ref> |
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In June 2018, Heterodox Academy held an inaugural Open Mind Conference in New York City, featuring several academic guests recently involved in campus [[Freedom of speech|free speech]] issues, like [[Robert Zimmer]], [[Lucía Martínez Valdivia]], [[Allison Stanger]], [[Alice Dreger]], and [[Heather Heying]].<ref name="Rubenstein2018">{{cite news |last1=Rubenstein |first1=Adam |title=Heterodoxy Now |url=https://www.weeklystandard.com/adam-rubenstein/heterodox-academy-meet-the-academics-who-are-trying-to-save-free-speech |accessdate=1 March 2019 |newspaper=[[The Weekly Standard]] |date=June 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302090805/https://www.weeklystandard.com/adam-rubenstein/heterodox-academy-meet-the-academics-who-are-trying-to-save-free-speech |archive-date=2 March 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Bartlett2018">{{cite news |last1=Bartlett |first1=Tom |title=A Conference's Recipe for 'Viewpoint Diversity': More Free Play, More John Stuart Mill |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Conference-s-Recipe-for/243733 |accessdate=1 March 2019 |work=[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]] |date=June 21, 2018 |location=New York |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302090844/https://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Conference-s-Recipe-for/243733 |archive-date=2 March 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> |
In June 2018, Heterodox Academy held an inaugural Open Mind Conference in New York City, featuring several academic guests recently involved in campus [[Freedom of speech|free speech]] issues, like [[Robert Zimmer]], [[Lucía Martínez Valdivia]], [[Allison Stanger]], [[Alice Dreger]], and [[Heather Heying]].<ref name="Rubenstein2018">{{cite news |last1=Rubenstein |first1=Adam |title=Heterodoxy Now |url=https://www.weeklystandard.com/adam-rubenstein/heterodox-academy-meet-the-academics-who-are-trying-to-save-free-speech |accessdate=1 March 2019 |newspaper=[[The Weekly Standard]] |date=June 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302090805/https://www.weeklystandard.com/adam-rubenstein/heterodox-academy-meet-the-academics-who-are-trying-to-save-free-speech |archive-date=2 March 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Bartlett2018">{{cite news |last1=Bartlett |first1=Tom |title=A Conference's Recipe for 'Viewpoint Diversity': More Free Play, More John Stuart Mill |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Conference-s-Recipe-for/243733 |accessdate=1 March 2019 |work=[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]] |date=June 21, 2018 |location=New York |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302090844/https://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Conference-s-Recipe-for/243733 |archive-date=2 March 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> |
Revision as of 17:36, 30 January 2022
Abbreviation | HxA |
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Formation | 2015 |
Founder | Jonathan Haidt, Chris Martin, and Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz |
Location | |
President | John Tomasi[1] |
Interim Executive Director | Manon Loustaunau |
Chair, Board of Directors | Jonathan Haidt[2] |
Website | heterodoxacademy |
Heterodox Academy (HxA) is a non-profit advocacy group of academics working to counteract what they see as a lack of viewpoint diversity on college campuses, especially political diversity.[3]
History
In 2011, Jonathan Haidt, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, gave a talk at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in which he argued that political conservatives were under-represented in social psychology and that this hinders research and damages the field's credibility.[4][5] 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 law and similarly argued that this undermines the quality of research and teaching.[5] He was also contacted by Chris Martin, a sociology graduate student at Emory University, who had published a similar paper in The American Sociologist about the lack of ideological diversity in sociology.[6][7] Haidt, Martin, and Rosenkranz formed "Heterodox Academy" to address this issue.[6][8][9][10][11] Initial funding for the group came from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation and The Achelis and Bodman Foundation.[5][12] 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.[5]
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.[5] In July 2017, the group had 800 members internationally.[5][13] As of February 2018, around 1,500 college professors had joined Heterodox Academy, along with a couple hundred graduate students.[3]
In 2018, Debra Mashek, a professor of psychology at Harvey Mudd College, was appointed as the executive director of Heterodox Academy, a position which she held until 2020, after which an interim executive director was appointed.[3][14][15][1] In 2020, the organization had around 4,000 members.[16]
Programs and activities
In 2016 and 2017, Heterodox Academy published an annual Heterodox Academy Guide to Colleges, a ranking based on "political conformity and orthodoxy".[13][17][18][19]
From 2018 through 2021, Heterodox Academy produced a podcast called Half Hour of Heterodoxy,[20] after which they launched the podcast Heterodox Out Loud.[21]
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.[22][23]
Heterodox Academy operates an online platform named "Open Mind" that seeks to reduce political polarization in schools and workplaces. The organization also administers a "Campus Expression Survey", designed to allow professors and college administrators to survey their students' feelings about freedom of expression on campus.[24]
Ideology and reception
Heterodox Academy describes itself as non-partisan.[14] In 2018, the group's website described its mission as encouraging political diversity to allow dissent and challenge errors.[14]
Zack Beauchamp of Vox maintains that "by working to promote the idea that liberal bias and ... political correctness is [sic] a crisis, they provide ammunition" to conservative lawmakers who would pass laws to restrict academic freedom. On a more concessive note, Beauchamp acknowledges that "Heterodox Academy's core staff are too principled to support such measures."'[25]
In a July 2021 University World News article, historian of education Jonathan Zimmerman reported on faculty members’ concern about the consequences of dissent: "In a survey of 445 professors conducted last year by Heterodox Academy, over half said that they believed expressing a dissenting view at work could harm their careers."[26][27]
See also
- Chicago principles
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
- Intellectual Dark Web
- Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship
References
- ^ a b "Our Team". Heterodox Academy. Heterodox Academy. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
- ^ "Board of Directors". Heterodox Academy. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
- ^ a b c Friedersdorf, Conor (February 6, 2018). "A New Leader in the Push for Diversity of Thought on Campus". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on May 25, 2018. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
- ^ Tierney, John (February 7, 2011). "Social Scientist Sees Bias Within". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 9 August 2014. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f Goldstein, Evan R. (June 11, 2017). "The Gadfly: Can Jonathan Haidt Calm the Culture Wars?". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Vol. 63, no. 40 (published July 7, 2017). pp. B6–9. Archived from the original on May 4, 2019. Retrieved March 6, 2019.
- ^ a b Jonathan Haidt (June 20, 2019). 2019 HxA Open Inquiry Awards. New York: Heterodox Academy. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
- ^ "The Well-Meaning Bad Ideas Spoiling a Generation". Nautilus | Science Connected. 2019-03-06. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
- ^ Rauch, Jonathan (2021). The Constitution of Knowledge. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press. p. 317. ISBN 9780815738862.
- ^ Wehner, Eric (May 24, 2020). "Jonathan Haidt Is Trying to Heal America's Divisions". The Atlantic. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
- ^ "Heterodox Academy, Our Mission". Heterodox Academy. Heterodox Academy. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
Heterodox Academy was founded in 2015 by Jonathan Haidt, Chris Martin, and Nicholas Rosenkranz, in reaction to their observations about the negative impact a lack of ideological diversity has had on the quality of research within their disciplines.
- ^ "In College Classrooms, A Spreading Silence On Hot-Button Topics". John Templeton Foundation. John Templeton Foundation. Retrieved January 16, 2022.
Heterodox Academy was founded in 2015 by psychologist Jonathan Haidt, sociologist Chris Martin, and legal scholar Nicholas Rosenkranz because all three worried that a lack of ideological diversity within their disciplines was impacting the quality of research
- ^ "Variety and Heterodox Academy: The Chris Martin Interview". TheBestSchools.org. August 2016. Archived from the original on March 6, 2020. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b c Lerner, Maura (April 24, 2018). "Nurturing a new diversity on campus: 'Diversity of thought'". Star Tribune. Archived from the original on May 24, 2018. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
- ^ "Deb Mashek, PhD". LinkedIn. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
- ^ Wehner, Peter (May 24, 2020). "Jonathan Haidt Is Trying to Heal America's Divisions". The Atlantic. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
- ^ Richardson, Bradford (October 24, 2016). "Harvard among least intellectually diverse universities: Report". The Washington Times. Archived from the original on 25 May 2018. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
- ^ "The Heterodox Academy Guide to Colleges: Starting A Methodological Discussion". Heterodox Academy. October 27, 2016.
- ^ "Heterodox Academy Releases Updated Guide to Colleges | HeterodoxAcademy.org". November 4, 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-11-04.
- ^ "Half Hour of Heterodoxy". Radio Public. Heterodox Academy. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
- ^ "Heterodox Out Loud". Apple Podcasts. Heterodox Academy. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
- ^ Rubenstein, Adam (June 22, 2018). "Heterodoxy Now". The Weekly Standard. Archived from the original on 2 March 2019. 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. Archived from the original on 2 March 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Mikics, David (July 21, 2019). "The High Priest of Heterodoxy". Tablet. New York, New York. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
- ^ "The myth of a campus free speech crisis". 31 August 2018.
- ^ Jonathan Zimmerman, "Universities, we have a problem we are afraid to speak of," University World News: The Global Window on Higher Education, 1 July 2021
- ^ McWhorter, John. "Academics Are Really, Really Worried About Their Freedom," The Atlantic Monthly, September 1, 2020