Viewpoint Diversity
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Love, Loyalty, and Liberty: Free Speech at ASU February 18, 2025
The mission of ASU Alumni for Free Speech is to promote and strengthen free expression, academic freedom, and viewpoint diversity, both on campus and throughout the global ASU community....
Tradition As an Antidote to Campus Polarization February 18, 2025
True civil discourse demands more than intermittent “fireside chats” featuring heterodox speakers — it requires reviving the shared intellectual and historical foundations that once anchored higher education....
Alphas Have a Chance February 14, 2025
In line with a national push to remove cell phones in schools and a national discussion about social media and its impact on teens and their health and development, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced plans to eliminate the use of phones in sta...
Harvard Provost Encourages Controversial Discussions in Class February 14, 2025
Harvard Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Bharat N. Anand said the University is encouraging teachers to broach controversial subjects in classrooms at a Harvard Graduate School of Education virtual event on Thursday....
Eyes on the Prize: Samizdat February 04, 2025
The continued existence of this nation as we’ve known it depends on having an open, healthy, independent Fourth Estate – and one that is not allergic to viewpoint diversity....
Eyes on the Prize: Samizdat January 21, 2025
The continued existence of this nation as we’ve known it depends on having an open, healthy, independent Fourth Estate – and one that is not allergic to viewpoint diversity....
Zero Republican Professors Found across 7 Departments January 21, 2025
President of campus faculty union says free debate is flowing, but another professor disagrees....
Study: Top Public Policy Programs Lack Conservative Faculty January 14, 2025
The data tells us that academe has been skewed in favor of the left for decades, but it’s gotten worse in the last ten years or so....
Conservative Instructors Draw Student Criticism December 09, 2024
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Law School hired Skylar Croy and Daniel Lennington to teach a constitutional law course this upcoming spring semester. Some students, who attended clerkship programs WILL sued to alter diversity requirements, disag...
Univ. Puts Content Warning on ‘The Canterbury Tales’ November 21, 2024
Scholars criticize the move as an ‘attempt to censor Christian beliefs’ and a ‘failure to understand…Western literary tradition.’…...
The Fall of the AAUP November 21, 2024
Before accusing FIRE of dishonesty, partisanship, and ideological capture, they should really look in the mirror....
37 Academic Departments Have Zero Republican Professors November 06, 2024
Universities love to tout diversity, but they don’t practice what they preach....
Citizen Nation: How to Agree to Disagree November 01, 2024
The series wraps up at a thrilling championship showdown in the heart of Washington, D.C....
Who’s Afraid of Viewpoint Diversity in Florida? November 01, 2024
In the 2021 Florida legislative session, House Bill 233 was amended to require Florida College System (FCS) and State University System (SUS) institutions to conduct an annual assessment of intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity....
Who’s Afraid of Viewpoint Diversity in Florida? October 31, 2024
In the 2021 Florida legislative session, House Bill 233 was amended to require Florida College System (FCS) and State University System (SUS) institutions to conduct an annual assessment of intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity. The second wav...
Conservatives Are Rare in Academe. Is That a Problem? September 06, 2024
In a recent essay in The Chronicle, the Johns Hopkins political scientist Steven Teles asserted that “the public’s impression that American higher education has grown increasingly closed-minded is undeniably correct.”...
To the Left, Viewpoint Diversity Is ‘White Supremacy’ August 23, 2024
The Southern Poverty Law Center's latest attack on Alliance Defending Freedom involves branding viewpoint diversity as "white supremacy."...
Academic Freedom Group Calls GOP 'Fascist' August 23, 2024
American Association of University Professors undergoes similar evolution as ACLU, which is also losing one of its few remaining free-speech hawks. ...
Study Claims 13% of Professors Strongly Conservative August 16, 2024
The survey used social media posts to determine political leanings....
Higher Ed’s Worsening Crisis of Confidence August 08, 2024
Donald Trump’s potential re-election is worrying many in higher education. A March article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, for example, lamented that a Trump presidency “could remake higher education as we’ve known it.” Striking a similar tone,...
Harvard Asking Applicants How They Handle Disagreement August 05, 2024
Harvard added a new essay topic for high school seniors....
The Conservative Student on the Liberal Campus August 01, 2024
Should conservatives really fight for “viewpoint diversity” on campus?...
The Conservative Student on the Liberal Campus July 31, 2024
Should conservatives really fight for “viewpoint diversity” on campus?...
Sarah Lawrence Continues to Lean into DEI, but America is Rejecting This Toxic Ideology July 24, 2024
One of the greatest features of Sarah Lawrence College is the number of creative students who join us from across the country. Rather than being comprised exclusively of a group of urban and coastal students, the College enrolls many students from s...
This July Fourth, Celebrate How Universities Can Save America July 04, 2024
To no one’s surprise, a new poll commissioned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) found that confidence in higher education is at an all-time low. Americans’ dissatisfaction with higher education has been in slow decline for...
