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Executive director Debra Mashek, a psychology professor at [[Harvey Mudd College]] in California, described the group's outlook and its rationale for this mission as follows: "When nearly everyone in a field shares the same political orientation, certain ideas become [[orthodoxy]], dissent is discouraged, and errors can go unchallenged."<ref name="Lerner">{{cite news|last1=Lerner|first1=Maura|title=Nurturing a new diversity on campus: 'Diversity of thought'|url=http://www.startribune.com/nurturing-a-new-diversity-on-u-campus-diversity-of-thought-to-bridge-political-differences/480416263/|accessdate=24 May 2018|work=[[Star Tribune]]|date=April 24, 2018}}</ref> Heterodox Academy does not formally define itself as conservative or centrist, and describes itself in nonpartisan terms.<ref name="ObserverRichardson">{{cite web|accessdate=2019-02-28 |last1=Richardson|first1=Davis |title=Is a Red Pill Tidal Wave Brewing in Academia?|url=https://observer.com/2018/06/conservatives-centrists-grow-political-capital-at-universities/|date=4 June 2018}}</ref>
Executive director Debra Mashek, a psychology professor at [[Harvey Mudd College]] in California, described the group's outlook and its rationale for this mission as follows: "When nearly everyone in a field shares the same political orientation, certain ideas become [[orthodoxy]], dissent is discouraged, and errors can go unchallenged."<ref name="Lerner">{{cite news|last1=Lerner|first1=Maura|title=Nurturing a new diversity on campus: 'Diversity of thought'|url=http://www.startribune.com/nurturing-a-new-diversity-on-u-campus-diversity-of-thought-to-bridge-political-differences/480416263/|accessdate=24 May 2018|work=[[Star Tribune]]|date=April 24, 2018}}</ref> Heterodox Academy does not formally define itself as conservative or centrist, and describes itself in nonpartisan terms.<ref name="ObserverRichardson">{{cite web|accessdate=2019-02-28 |last1=Richardson|first1=Davis |title=Is a Red Pill Tidal Wave Brewing in Academia?|url=https://observer.com/2018/06/conservatives-centrists-grow-political-capital-at-universities/|date=4 June 2018}}</ref>


Nonetheless, Heterodox Academy has consistently been identified as advancing conservative viewpoints on college campuses by playing into or presenting the argument that such views are suppressed by left-wing bias.<ref name="ObserverRichardson" /><ref name="VoxBeauchamp" /><ref name="BioDifferences">{{cite journal|first1=Agustín|last1=Fuentes|first2=Carolyn|last2=Rouse|title=New Articulations of Biological Difference in the 21st Century: A Conversation|journal=Anthropology Now|date=1 September 2016|issn=1942-8200|pages=14–25|volume=8|issue=3|doi=10.1080/19428200.2016.1242907}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first1=Dylan|last1=Matthews|accessdate=2019-02-28|title=The Journal of Controversial Ideas is already, well, controversial. Here's a founder's defense.|url=https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/11/19/18101600/journal-of-controversial-ideas-censorship-politically-correct-academia|date=19 November 2018|website=Vox}}</ref>{{synthesis inline|date=March 2019}} Many commentators, including [[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.<ref name="ObserverRichardson" /><ref name="VoxBeauchamp" /><ref>{{cite news|first1=Chris|last1=Quintana|accessdate=2019-02-28|title=The Real Free-Speech Crisis Is Professors Being Disciplined for Liberal Views, a Scholar Finds|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Real-Free-Speech-Crisis-Is/243284|newspaper=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=30 April 2018|issn=0009-5982|via=The Chronicle of Higher Education}}</ref> Its focus on what it sees as a "campus free speech crisis" has been condemned as a [[moral panic]] by some commentators.<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2019-02-28|last1=Liu|first1=Jasmine |title=Building a new framework for Cardinal Conversations|url=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2019/01/29/building-a-new-framework-for-cardinal-conversations/|date=29 January 2019}}</ref><ref name="SalonSachs">{{cite web|accessdate=2019-02-28 |last1=Sachs|first1=Jeffrey Adam |title=There is no campus free speech crisis: The right's new moral panic is largely imaginary|url=https://www.salon.com/2018/05/01/there-is-no-campus-free-speech-crisis-the-rights-new-moral-panic-is-largely-imaginary/|date=1 May 2018|website=[[Salon (website)|Salon]] |type=reprint}}</ref>
Nonetheless, Heterodox Academy has been identified as advancing conservative viewpoints on college campuses by playing into or presenting the argument that such views are suppressed by left-wing bias.<ref name="ObserverRichardson" /><ref name="VoxBeauchamp" /><ref name="BioDifferences">{{cite journal|first1=Agustín|last1=Fuentes|first2=Carolyn|last2=Rouse|title=New Articulations of Biological Difference in the 21st Century: A Conversation|journal=Anthropology Now|date=1 September 2016|issn=1942-8200|pages=14–25|volume=8|issue=3|doi=10.1080/19428200.2016.1242907}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first1=Dylan|last1=Matthews|accessdate=2019-02-28|title=The Journal of Controversial Ideas is already, well, controversial. Here's a founder's defense.|url=https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/11/19/18101600/journal-of-controversial-ideas-censorship-politically-correct-academia|date=19 November 2018|website=Vox}}</ref>{{synthesis inline|date=March 2019}} Many commentators, including [[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.<ref name="ObserverRichardson" /><ref name="VoxBeauchamp" /><ref>{{cite news|first1=Chris|last1=Quintana|accessdate=2019-02-28|title=The Real Free-Speech Crisis Is Professors Being Disciplined for Liberal Views, a Scholar Finds|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Real-Free-Speech-Crisis-Is/243284|newspaper=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=30 April 2018|issn=0009-5982|via=The Chronicle of Higher Education}}</ref> Its focus on what it sees as a "campus free speech crisis" has been condemned as a [[moral panic]] by some commentators.<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2019-02-28|last1=Liu|first1=Jasmine |title=Building a new framework for Cardinal Conversations|url=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2019/01/29/building-a-new-framework-for-cardinal-conversations/|date=29 January 2019}}</ref><ref name="SalonSachs">{{cite web|accessdate=2019-02-28 |last1=Sachs|first1=Jeffrey Adam |title=There is no campus free speech crisis: The right's new moral panic is largely imaginary|url=https://www.salon.com/2018/05/01/there-is-no-campus-free-speech-crisis-the-rights-new-moral-panic-is-largely-imaginary/|date=1 May 2018|website=[[Salon (website)|Salon]] |type=reprint}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

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Formation2015; 9 years ago (2015)
FounderNicholas Quinn Rosenkranz and Jonathan Haidt
Location
  • New York
Membership
2,651 academics[1]
Websiteheterodoxacademy.org

Heterodox Academy is an advocacy group of professors to counteract what they see as narrowing of viewpoints on college campuses. The group publishes a college ranking guide which rates the top 150 universities in the United States based on their commitment to diversity of viewpoint.[2]

History

Heterodox Academy was an idea initially conceived of by academics Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz and Jonathan Haidt over lunch on April 28, 2015.[3] Rosenkranz coined the name for the site later in the summer of 2015. The site grew out of the paper "Political diversity will improve social psychological science" by academics José L. Duarte, Jarret T. Crawford, Charlotta Stern, Jonathan Haidt, Lee Jussim and Philip E. Tetlock published in the January 2015 edition of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. It was a sort of "online salon frequented by a few colleagues."[4][5][6]

However, in the wake of the 2015 campus freedom of speech controversies such as those surrounding Erika Christakis at Yale and the 2015–16 University of Missouri protests, the membership grew and the website became "a clearinghouse for data and views on academic bias, scientific integrity, and the latest campus free-speech flaps."[4] 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 or viewpoint diversity issues, like Robert Zimmer, Lucía Martínez Valdivia, Allison Stanger, Alice Dreger, and Heather Heying.[7][8]

By February 2018, over 1500 college professors had joined Heterodox Academy, along with a couple hundred graduate students,[9] from across the political spectrum and throughout the USA and internationally,[4] including social psychologists, Jonathan Haidt and Lee Jussim,[10][11] linguistics professor John McWhorter,[3] cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker,[1] law professor Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz,[12] former president of the ACLU Nadine Strossen, and Nobel Prize winner Vernon Smith.[13] As of February 2019, the organization reported that it had over 2,500 academic members and over 350 graduate affiliates.[1]

Ideology and goals

Heterodox Academy does not formally define itself as conservative or centrist, and describes itself in nonpartisan terms.[14] Vox has described them as advancing an argument that "political correctness" was a major problem on college campuses; Heterodox Academy objected to that characterization and accused the piece making it of bias.[15]

Executive director Debra Mashek, a psychology professor at Harvey Mudd College in California, described the group's outlook and its rationale for this mission as follows: "When nearly everyone in a field shares the same political orientation, certain ideas become orthodoxy, dissent is discouraged, and errors can go unchallenged."[16] Heterodox Academy does not formally define itself as conservative or centrist, and describes itself in nonpartisan terms.[14]

Nonetheless, Heterodox Academy has been identified as advancing conservative viewpoints on college campuses by playing into or presenting the argument that such views are suppressed by left-wing bias.[14][15][17][18][improper synthesis?] Many commentators, including 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.[14][15][19] Its focus on what it sees as a "campus free speech crisis" has been condemned as a moral panic by some commentators.[20][21]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Members". HeterodoxAcademy.org. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
  2. ^ Richardson, Bradford (October 24, 2016). "Harvard among least intellectually diverse universities: Report". The Washington Times. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  3. ^ a b Bruni, Frank (11 March 2017). "The Dangerous Safety of College". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  4. ^ a b c Goldstein, Evan (11 June 2017). "Can Jonathan Haidt Calm the Culture Wars?". Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  5. ^ Duarte, José L.; Crawford, Jarret T.; Stern, Charlotta; Haidt, Jonathan; Jussim, Lee; Tetlock, Philip E. (2015) [July 18, 2014]. "Political diversity will improve social psychological science". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 38 (e130). Cambridge University Press: 1–54. doi:10.1017/S0140525X14000430. PMID 25036715.
  6. ^ Jacoby, Russell (April 1, 2016). "Academe Is Overrun by Liberals. So What?". The Chronicle Review. The Chronicle of Higher Education. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ Rubenstein, Adam (June 22, 2018). "Heterodoxy Now". The Weekly Standard. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Friedersdorf, Conor (February 6, 2018). "A New Leader in the Push for Diversity of Thought on Campus". The Atlantic. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  10. ^ "Variety and Heterodox Academy: The Chris Martin Interview". ProEducation. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  11. ^ "The Problem". Heterodox Academy. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  12. ^ Nicholas Rosenkranz
  13. ^ "About Us". HeterodoxAcademy.org. Retrieved 2017-08-24.
  14. ^ a b c d Richardson, Davis (4 June 2018). "Is a Red Pill Tidal Wave Brewing in Academia?". Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  15. ^ a b c Beauchamp, Zack (31 August 2018). "The myth of a campus free speech crisis". Vox. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  16. ^ Lerner, Maura (April 24, 2018). "Nurturing a new diversity on campus: 'Diversity of thought'". Star Tribune. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  17. ^ Fuentes, Agustín; Rouse, Carolyn (1 September 2016). "New Articulations of Biological Difference in the 21st Century: A Conversation". Anthropology Now. 8 (3): 14–25. doi:10.1080/19428200.2016.1242907. ISSN 1942-8200.
  18. ^ Matthews, Dylan (19 November 2018). "The Journal of Controversial Ideas is already, well, controversial. Here's a founder's defense". Vox. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  19. ^ 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 – via The Chronicle of Higher Education.
  20. ^ Liu, Jasmine (29 January 2019). "Building a new framework for Cardinal Conversations". Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  21. ^ Sachs, Jeffrey Adam (1 May 2018). "There is no campus free speech crisis: The right's new moral panic is largely imaginary". Salon (reprint). Retrieved 2019-02-28.
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