Heterodox Academy is doing crucial work to challenge powerful anti-intellectual and authoritarian trends on college campuses with intellectualism, rigor and discipline and civility.
11K likes. Heterodox Academy is working on a college guide so that students and parents can identify schools with enough viewpoint diversity to permit political dissent and debate. 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. Our guide will eventually collect systematic data based on surveys and faculty political donations. Heterodox Academy. Of those schools which were ranked the University of Chicago received the highest overall score, 93.75, while both the University of Missouri- Columbia and the University of Oregon-Eugene share the lowest overall score of 0.
We are compiling a compendium of initiatives, policies, programs, and other innovations that have been deployed in classrooms, on campuses, and in disciplines to support open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement. Heterodox Academy is a group of nearly 4,000 educators, administrators, & graduate students who believe diverse viewpoints & open inquiry are critical to research & learning. Heterodox Academy formally describes itself as non-partisan. They then multiply each score by 25 and add up the values to create a “Heterodoxy Score” ranging from 0 to 100.
The new Heterodox Academy Guide to Colleges is an effort to rank the “commitment to viewpoint diversity” of the top 150 national universities from the US News & World Report college ranking guide through a variety of metrics and factors, including FIRE’s rating of the institution’s speech code. 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. Sean Stevens October 27, 2016 A week ago Heterodox Academy released the preliminary version of our Guide to Colleges– a unique resource that ranks the top 150 schools as listed by US News and World Report on whether the intellectual climate on campus is free, open, and vibrant, or whether it is dominated by political conformity. Follow for publications and updates from Heterodox Academy, and for curated research, news and analysis related to our mission.