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Heterodox Academy counts thousands of members from across the U.S and Canada, with campus communities active and growing — from Ivy League and public research universities to community colleges and faith-based institutions — and is the nation's leader in promoting open inquiry and viewpoint diversity.
To achieve our goal of creating an academic culture where different points of view are valued in the pursuit of knowledge, discovery, growth, and innovation, we focus our work on four areas.
We gather and publish data through our annual Campus Expression Survey. Throughout the year, we amplify mission-oriented research on our HxA Blog and from our Center For Academic Pluralism.
We elevate the voices of our team and our members in the national media and on our own channels to demonstrate the value of heterodox thinking in the academy.
We work with our HxA members to organize events, workshops, and communities to advance the principles of open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement across higher education.
We put our mission into practice by providing support, tools, and resources to help members engage in work to promote HxA values in their disciplines and on their campuses.
I’m in tremendous debt to Heterodox Academy… [Receiving] the Institutional Excellence Award and Jonathan Haidt gave us a tremendous amount of confidence and courage in building out a series of programs.
I think a lot of campus leaders found themselves acknowledging that they're in a hard place... HxA has been providing them a guidebook for how to do things better.
HxA joined with AFA and FIRE urging universities to adopt institutional neutrality in February 2024. Since then, more than 120 universities have adopted policies of statement neutrality or institutional restraint, bringing the total to over 150 institutions.
HxA's Member Grants support the important work our members are doing to connect members and promote the values of open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement. Member Grants of up to $500 were made available in spring/summer 2023 to support member-led activities.
HxA Campus Communities have influenced policy changes on campuses throughout North America since 2023, fostering tangible changes with enduring effects on their respective campuses.
Heterodox Conversations, a new initiative from the HxA Campus Community Network, are campus events that pair two scholarly experts who disagree on a topic in a public discussion of that topic. Not a traditional lecture or debate, these events showcase the power of academic dialogue.
The HxCommunities Flexible Funding Opportunity (FFO) program invested $380K across 24 member projects for campus-based and professional community activities. Find a curated selection of FFO projects below.
Just knowing that there's an institution that's backing you up where you feel like you can speak about things where somebody needs to... And having this presence on campus... gives us a community where we can band together and know that we're not crazy… It gives us all a shared voice and a space to be able to talk about these things and have constructive dialog.
The work of HxA is already changing campuses. It's not an immediate, splashy, headline, glamorous change, it's slow as things are on campuses... but it's happening. The more that we do programs where we talk about principles and highlight the importance of free speech, viewpoint diversity, and open inquiry, the more interest there is and the more people reach out to us to ask about what we're doing.
2024 Annual Report
HxA is led by scholars, civic leaders, and business professionals dedicated to improving higher educational institutions by increasing open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement. Review our 2024 Annual Report to see how we are advancing our mission.
John Tomasi and Jonathan Haidt Discuss HxA’s Next Chapter
“I want to give our members something that they in turn can give to their campuses, that will make them proud to be part of HxA, where ideas are being pursued seriously, intensely, bravely, and with humility together.” — HxA President John Tomasi
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