HxA Annual Report FY19 FINAL - Flipbook - Page 13
WE INCREASE PUBLIC AWARENESS
“The Scandal That Is Higher Ed Today”
PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE | FALL 2018
“Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt are both keenly concerned with the crisis of intellectual diversity and free
expression on campus. The former is a lawyer and founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
(FIRE), the latter is a New York University psychology professor and co-founder of Heterodox Academy, an
academic-freedom advocacy organization. They argue that today’s traumas arise from broader social trends
— changes in parenting practices that leave many children unprepared for challenges, social-media fallout,
radicalized faculty, craven college administrators, the wider polarization of the American public...The
arguments of Lukianoff and Haidt suggest several avenues for philanthropists…Supporting free expression and
true viewpoint diversity on campus ought to be a centerpiece of the college giving of many philanthropists.”
http://bit.ly/2BGk0RA
“Thank Goodness Trump Is Here to Protect Free Speech”
CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION | MARCH 6, 2019
“As the political scientist Jeffrey Sachs observes, colleges seem to be making strides on their own
with the help of organizations like FIRE and PEN America, longtime advocates of free
expression, and Heterodox Academy, a relative newcomer that advocates for viewpoint diversity in
higher education.”
http://bit.ly/2BGk5om
“Can We Guarantee Colleges Are Intellectually Diverse?”
NEW YORK TIMES | AUGUST 30, 2019
“Debra Mashek taught at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA before becoming executive
director of Heterodox Academy, an organization devoted to fostering ideological diversity
and civil discourse in higher education. She told me about one student who came to see her:
a social justice activist who said she didn’t feel comfortable questioning left-wing
orthodoxies in front of her classmates. So she turned to the website Reddit to read and ask
questions anonymously. ‘The fact that she had to go undercover because she feared —
rightly so — that she could be called a traitor and be ostracized, that just breaks my heart,’
Dr. Mashek told me.”
https://nyti.ms/2N2S9QE
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