HxA Event: "A Deep Dive into DEI: Research, Interventions & Alternatives"

Event Topic:
"A Deep Dive into DEI: Research, Interventions, and Alternatives"

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 will tackle the issue of training programs designed to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in a wide range of organizations and settings. They will draw from their collective experience in industry and academia to address questions around DEI programming effectiveness, research, and what successful alternative approaches might look like.

About the Panelists:

• Edward Chang is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Negotiations in the MBA elective curriculum. Professor Chang studies diversity in organizations. His research aims to unpack and understand diversity-related decisions in organizations, with a focus on providing evidence-based solutions to managers wanting to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.

• Frank Dobbin is Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard. He holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. His Inventing Equal Opportunity (2009), which won the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award from the American Sociological Association, charts how corporations have responded to anti-discrimination law since the 1960s. He is developing an evidence-based approach to diversity management, using administrative data and panel surveys to explore how hiring, promotion, diversity, work-life and harassment policies have shaped both corporate management and university faculty over 30 years.

• Garrett Johnson is a co-founder and executive director of the Lincoln Network. He also co-founded SendHub.com, a venture-backed-Y Combinator startup. He served as professional staff to the Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where his oversight portfolio included Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Haiti. Garrett earned a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University and Master of Philosophy in Migration Studies at the University of Oxford, England as a Rhodes Scholar.

• Ilana Redstone is an Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the founder of Diverse Perspectives Consulting, the co-author of Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education, a Faculty Fellow at Heterodox Academy, and the creator of the “Beyond Bigots and Snowflakes” video series, based on her course by the same name.

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