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Heterodox Academy does not formally define itself as conservative or centrist, and describes itself in nonpartisan terms.<ref name="redpill" /> When they were described as advancing an argument that "political correctness" was a major problem on college campuses, they objected to that characterization and accused the piece making it of bias.<ref name="Vox" />
Heterodox Academy does not formally define itself as conservative or centrist, and describes itself in nonpartisan terms.<ref name="redpill" /> When they were described as advancing an argument that "political correctness" was a major problem on college campuses, they objected to that characterization and accused the piece making it of bias.<ref name="Vox" />


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="redpill" /><ref name="Vox" /><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> Many commentators have disputed Heterodox Academy's assumption that college campuses are facing a "free-speech crisis", noting the lack of data to support it, and argued that pressure groups such as Heterodox Academy functionally do more to narrow the scope of academic debates than any of the biases they allege.<ref name="redpill" /><ref name="Vox" /><ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2019-02-28|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}}</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="redpill" /><ref name="Vox" /><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> Many commentators have disputed Heterodox Academy's assumption that college campuses are facing a "free-speech crisis", noting the lack of data to support it, and argued that pressure groups such as Heterodox Academy functionally do more to narrow the scope of academic debates than any of the biases they allege.<ref name="redpill" /><ref name="Vox" /><ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2019-02-28|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}}</ref><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>


== History ==
== History ==

Revision as of 21:20, 28 February 2019

Formation2015; 9 years ago (2015)
FounderNicholas Quinn Rosenkranz and Jonathan Haidt
Location
  • New York
Membership
1,865[1]
Websiteheterodoxacademy.org

Heterodox Academy is an advocacy group of professors which seeks to correct what it sees as the left-wing ideological tilt on college campuses.[2][3] 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."[4] 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.[5][6]

Ideology and goals

Heterodox Academy does not formally define itself as conservative or centrist, and describes itself in nonpartisan terms.[2] When they were described as advancing an argument that "political correctness" was a major problem on college campuses, they objected to that characterization and accused the piece making it of bias.[3]

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.[2][3][7] Many commentators have disputed Heterodox Academy's assumption that college campuses are facing a "free-speech crisis", noting the lack of data to support it, and argued that pressure groups such as Heterodox Academy functionally do more to narrow the scope of academic debates than any of the biases they allege.[2][3][8][9]

History

Heterodox Academy was an idea initially conceived of by academics Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz and Jonathan Haidt over lunch on April 28, 2015.[10] 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."[11][12][13]

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."[11]

By February 2018, over 1500 college professors had joined Heterodox Academy, along with a couple hundred graduate students,[14] from across the political spectrum and throughout the USA and internationally,[11] including social psychologists, Jonathan Haidt and Lee Jussim,[15][16] linguistics professor John McWhorter,[10], cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker,[1] law professor,[17] former president of the ACLU, Nadine Strossen, and Nobel Prize winner Vernon Smith.[18]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Members". HeterodoxAcademy.org. Retrieved 2017-08-24.
  2. ^ a b c d "Is a Red Pill Tidal Wave Brewing in Academia?". 4 June 2018. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  3. ^ a b c d Beauchamp, Zack (31 August 2018). "The myth of a campus free speech crisis". Vox. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  4. ^ Lerner, Maura (April 24, 2018). "Nurturing a new diversity on campus: 'Diversity of thought'". Star Tribune. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  5. ^ Bailey, Ronald (October 24, 2016). "HIT & RUN BLOG How Heterodox Is Your University?". Reason. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  6. ^ Richardson, Bradford (October 24, 2016). "Harvard among least intellectually diverse universities: Report". The Washington Times. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ "There is no campus free speech crisis: The right's new moral panic is largely imaginary". Salon. 1 May 2018. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ a b Bruni, Frank (11 March 2017). "The Dangerous Safety of College". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  11. ^ a b c Goldstein, Evan (11 June 2017). "Can Jonathan Haidt Calm the Culture Wars?". Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  12. ^ 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. doi:10.1017/S0140525X14000430. PMID 25036715.
  13. ^ Jacoby, Russell (April 1, 2016). "Academe Is Overrun by Liberals. So What?". The Chronicle Review. The Chronicle of Higher Education. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  14. ^ Friedersdorf, Conor (February 6, 2018). "A New Leader in the Push for Diversity of Thought on Campus". The Atlantic. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  15. ^ "Variety and Heterodox Academy: The Chris Martin Interview". ProEducation. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  16. ^ "The Problem". Heterodox Academy. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  17. ^ Nicholas Rosenkranz
  18. ^ "About Us". HeterodoxAcademy.org. Retrieved 2017-08-24.
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