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Dr. Dorian Abbot
Professor Abbot was the focus of a highly publicized cancellation in October 2021 when MIT administrators canceled...
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Policymakers | Intellectual Diversity
Is Intellectual Diversity an Endangered Species on Campus?
October 1, 2003 by Anne D. Neal and Robert David "KC" Johnson Download PDF Press Release
ACTA president Anne D. Neal presents expert testimony on intellectual diversity before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee. Robert “KC” Johnson, professor of history at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, also spoke before the Committee.
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Doug Sprei: Vice President of Multimedia & Campus Partnerships at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni
As Vice President of Multimedia & Campus Partnerships, Doug advances ACTA’s messaging and digital media presence for our core audiences focused on issues of academic freedom, excellence...
PodcastsIntellectual Diversity
Diversity Done Right
In October 2022, ACTA's ATHENA Roundtable Conference in Washington, DC was highlighted by two panels featuring extraordinary higher education thought leaders. Today we present the first of those panels – headlined as DIVERSITY DONE RIGHT, and hosted by our good friend Jonathan Rauch – Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
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Academic diversity lacking, panel told Democrats skip Senate hearing
A US Senate committee convened a hearing yesterday on “the lack of intellectual diversity in America’s colleges and universities.” But the panel of witnesses who testified about the issue did not appear to reflect much diversity: All four contended that political pressures to conform, restrictive speech codes, and slanted courses were stifling the free exchange […]
ACTA in the NewsIntellectual Diversity
Diversity of everything but ideas
Mark 2005 as the year that the dirty little secret of higher education became part of the public conversation. Most of us on college campuses have long known that there is little intellectual diversity in higher education, especially when it comes to political ideas. But we learned to live with it as part of the […]
ACTA in the NewsIntellectual Diversity
Senate panel approves university diversity plan
South Dakota’s public universities should be required to file annual reports showing how they are ensuring academic freedom and promoting differing points of view, a state Senate committee recommended Wednesday. The reports would assure students that they will be exposed to a wide range of ideas and that state universities will respect those students’ ideas, […]
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