HxA Event: "How Can We Get Viewpoint Diversity in Higher Ed"

Event Title:
“How Can We Get Viewpoint Diversity in Higher Ed"

How to Watch:
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Event Topic:
Viewpoint diversity is widely invoked in higher education, but rarely translated into concrete practice. What does it look like in hiring, teaching, and institutional design? And how can universities foster genuine intellectual pluralism without reducing it to slogans, quotas, or culture-war signaling?

In this webinar, co-editor of the new book, Viewpoint Diversity: What It Is, Why We Need It, and How to Get It, John Tomasi joins contributors Tyler J. VanderWeele, Komi Frey, and Nafees Alam to focus squarely on how institutions can foster genuine intellectual pluralism without sacrificing academic standards or free inquiry.

The conversation explores practical strategies for hiring that respect disciplinary norms while expanding the range of serious perspectives represented on campus, institutional frameworks that protect open inquiry and resist ideological conformity, and classroom practices that help students engage competing viewpoints with rigor and courage. Grounded, constructive, and implementation-oriented, this webinar offers faculty, administrators, and academic leaders actionable insights for building universities where real disagreement and open dialogue can flourish.

About the Speakers:
* John Tomasi is the inaugural president of Heterodox Academy, an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Political Theory Project at Brown University. He's also the author of Free Market Fairness (2012) and The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism (2023).
* Komi Frey is a social psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, the director of faculty outreach at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and founder of Verita Consulting which offers college admission consultations.
* Nafees Alam is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Boise State University, as well as a member of Heterodox Academy and a contributor to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, the Academic Freedom Alliance, and the Institute for Liberal Values.
* Tyler Vanderweele is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, as well as co-director of Harvard's Initiative on Health, Religion and Spirituality and director of the Human Flourishing Program at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He's also the author of A Theology of Health: Wholeness and Human Flourishing (2024).

About the Event Host:
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.

To learn more about their mission, go to https://heterodoxacademy.org/our-mission/