🔔OUT NOW: Trust. The new issue of HxA's inquisitive.

Is higher ed cooked? Can universities restore trustworthiness as well as trust? Can we still think in an AI-driven age?

All this and more.👇

🎓Do students just need to argue on behalf of opposing views more often?

The data show one HxA member's debate program is helping thousands of students handle opposing views more constructively:

As an academic, I’ve attended more conferences than I can remember. But this one is unique. The Soapbox26 conference of @TheFIREorg is the first focused on free speech. Here’s John Tomasi of @HdxAcademy at a panel on promoting intellectual diversity without compromising merit.

🔎 Should universities consider an applicant's political views?

New research by HxA Senior Fellow Eric Torres reveals a surprising point of agreement between Democrats and Republicans:

🔎 See the full presentation for other findings from these studies: youtu.be/yYnRidDMyiU?si…

⏰Don't miss HxA's next research colloquium: tinyurl.com/4v9fv2uf

🗣️Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Duke now ask applicants about a time they disagreed with someone.

It’s a start, but any applicant can write about loving pluralism.

HxA's Dylan Selterman explains what admissions offices should do instead:

🔗How Universities Can Promote Viewpoint Diversity Through Admissions: freetheinquiry.com/p/how-universi…

“The reign of poststructuralism in universities, now well into its fifth decade, is founded upon the belief that all things are unsettled: truth, authority, certainty, and so on,” writes R. McKay Stangler of @HdxAcademy.

Read his essay on higher education:
modernagejournal.com/academias-cris…

💡If ideas can't be rigorously studied and questioned, it's not a campus, it's an echo chamber.

Universities can do these three things right now to grow viewpoint diversity:

Restoring public trust in higher education requires a new commitment to intellectual pluralism

More here: freetheinquiry.com/p/how-universi…

💡This week: a brawl over measuring left-wing authoritarianism, a wager over what a diploma signature is actually worth, and a canceled campus free speech forum.

Update your heterodox reading list with 5 new works from HxA members.👇

🎓A Columbia group canceled its own press-freedom forum over objections to a student editorial.

Jonathan Zimmerman calls the campaign against those student journalists “Trumpian in spirit”: inquirer.com/opinion/columb…

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Universities would do well to select for students who support open inquiry

More here: freetheinquiry.com/p/how-universi…