Ideological Insistence

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Join us for a panel discussion at our New York City office on our new report Ideological Insistence and to hear from experts.

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“Ideological Insistence: Diversity Statements and the Challenge to Academic Freedom”Friday April 253 pm ET<a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/JLLqS1Jmh2XuQRSE8" title="https://maps.app.goo.gl/JLLqS1Jmh2XuQRSE8" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">13 W 36th Street 4th Floor, New York, NY, 10018</a>The National Association of Scholars (NAS) is hosting a discussion convening a panel of experts critical of diversity statements to review the recent institutional sea change on the practice (for example, the UC system recently abandoned the practice), stake out why diversity statements threaten Academic Freedom, Open Inquiry, and other academic institutional norms, and begin to think about where future conversations about academic freedom should go.The event will also serve to introduce the finding of NAS's soon-to-be released study on the national prevalence of diversity statements usage in university hiring, <a href="https://www.nas.org/storage/app/media/Reports/Ideological%20Insistence/Ideological_Insistence.pdf" title="https://www.nas.org/storage/app/media/Reports/Ideological%20Insistence/Ideological_Insistence.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ideological Insistence: A Quantitative Study of DEI Statements in American University Job Listings</a>, will inform the first part of the discussion.Join the National Association of Scholars on Friday, April 25 at 3 pm ET, at our <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/JLLqS1Jmh2XuQRSE8" title="https://maps.app.goo.gl/JLLqS1Jmh2XuQRSE8" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">New York City office</a> for a panel discussion, Ideological Insistence: Diversity Statements and the Challenge to Academic Freedom.This event will feature Nathan Honeycutt, a Research Fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, where broadly, he studies higher education, and has longstanding research interests in the views and experiences of university faculty, political bias, free speech, scientific integrity, and ideological diversity; Louis Galarowicz, Research Fellow at the National Association of Scholars and co-author of the Ideological Insistence report; Joshua T. Katz, a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the former Cotsen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, where he was on the faculty from 1998 to 2022; and Michael Regnier, Executive Director of Heterodox Academy, where he has helped launch a national network of faculty chapters the Segal Center for Academic Pluralism, and the inquisitive quarterly magazine. He is the former co-founder of a charter school in Brooklyn, New York, and a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Chicago. The panel will be moderated by Peter Wood, president of NAS.

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