HxA Event: "DEI Programs: What Should They Aim For?"

Event Topic:
"DEI Training Programs: What Do They Aim For? What Should They Aim For?"

What is the Heterodox Academy?
The Heterodox Academy (HxA) is a nonpartisan collaborative of thousands of professors, administrators, and students committed to enhancing the quality of research and education by promoting open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement in institutions of higher learning. It was founded in 2015 by Jonathan Haidt, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, a Georgetown University law professor, and Chris Martin, an Emory University sociologist.

The organization's members embrace a particular set of norms and values called the "HxA Way": (1) make your case with evidence, (2) be intellectually charitable, (3) be intellectually humble, (4) be constructive, (5) be yourself.

If you're currently a student or teacher (K-12 or college), you can apply for a membership in HxA. And even for those who aren't currently in academia, you can sign up as a "friend" of HxA. To learn more, go to: https://heterodoxacademy.org/join/

Registering for the Online Event:
Unlike most HxA events which are for members only, this is a FREE event open to the general public; however, you'll need to register for it. Go to the following link & fill out the registration form, and when you hit "register" you'll receive an email with a link to the Zoom meeting room a week prior to the event date:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cJREMQR7Rm6WFR3pHmvUDg

Event Description:
The Heterodox Academy panelists, Roslyn Artis, Joseph Guarneri, and George Yancey, and moderator, Musa al-Gharbi, will explore the questions at the core of campus diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives:

• What are the stated purposes of DEI training programs?
• What should they be?
• What would count as progress towards these goals?
• How would we know if the training is successful?
• How would we measure success?
• Where might these training programs be missing their mark?

About the Panelists:

• Roslyn Artis is the president of Benedict College. She is a member of the National Board of Directors for the United Negro College Fund, an educational advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, and a member of the Presidents’ Advisory Board for Title III Administrators and the Educational Testing Service Presidents’ Advisory Council. Artis has a BA and JD from West Virginia University, and a PhD in Higher Education Leadership and Policy from Vanderbilt University.

• Joseph Guarneri is an academic success advisor at the University of Bridgeport. Previously, he served as the assistant director of the PACT program at Mercy College. He has written multiple essays for HxA illustrating the important connections between viewpoint diversity and other forms of diversity, and exploring how people who work in student affairs can support viewpoint diversity.

• George Yancey is sociologist at Baylor University, whose work explores ideological diversity, demographic diversity, and the religiosity of university faculty and their views towards religion. He has also produced journal articles and books exploring political (in)tolerance within the academy. Regarding racial tensions, he has advocated a ‘mutual accountability’ framework in his books Beyond Racial Gridlock (2006) and *Transcending Racial Barriers *(2010). He is currently working on a book called Beyond Racial Division: A Unifying Alternative to Colorblindness and Antiracism.

• Musa al-Gharbi is a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in Sociology at Columbia University, a Mellon-Sawyer Fellow on Trust and Mistrust of Experts with INCITE and the American Assembly, and a Racial Equity Media Fellow with Interfaith Youth Core. His research explores how knowledge is produced, transmitted, evaluated and operationalized, and how people’s thinking is shaped by their social contexts.

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