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Lasting Reform Happens Inside Universities

For over a decade, HxA has been building a culture of open inquiry across higher education. Today, that work is showing up where it matters most: helping our thousands of members make changes to institutional policies, classroom culture, and the everyday conversations that shape a university education.

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How We Change Campuses

HxA achieves lasting reform by producing rigorous data, organizing members on the ground, and curating partnerships with the academic leaders who set the direction.

Data & Research

The Mike & Sofia Segal Center for Academic Pluralism produces data that shapes higher education's conversation about itself — from DEI requirements in faculty hiring to the rise of civics centers to the spread of institutional neutrality policies. We equip our members with this research so they can make principled, evidence-based cases on their own campuses.

Organizing on Campus

Our members aren't waiting for change to come from outside. Across 82 Campus Chapters and 28 disciplinary and regional HxCommunities, members are recruiting colleagues, hosting Heterodox Conversations, advancing policy reforms, and modeling open inquiry in their teaching and scholarship.

Collaborating with Campus Leaders

Our University Partnerships team works directly with presidents, provosts, and senior administrators who want to strengthen open inquiry at their institutions. We bring research-backed policy proposals, model statements, assessment tools, and a decade of credibility — they bring the institutional authority to turn principles into practice.

Create Tools for Change

Our extensive resource library gives campus leaders the tools they need to gain institutional buy-in, make public commitments, and enact policy changes grounded in principles and evidence. HxA’s tools and resources help turn ideas into action.

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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.

Hiram ChodoshPresidentClaremont McKenna College

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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.

Cory ClarkDirector of the Adversarial Collaboration ProjectUniversity of Pennsylvania

Elevating the University from Within

Our Tools Equip Leaders for Change

University leaders are translating HxA’s principles into policies on campuses across the country with our support.

Harvard Medical School Releases "Open Inquiry Report" Aligned with HxA's AgendaHarvard Medical School issued a comprehensive report whose commitments track closely with HxA's four-point Open Inquiry U Agenda. It is the most significant adoption to date of the reform framework HxA published in July 2025.

Yale Adopts Institutional Statement Neutrality Affirming HxA Reform AgendaYale President Maurie McInnis commissioned The Report of the Yale Committee on Trust in Higher Education — a bracing self-assessment and a call for comprehensive reform. The report cites HxA and HxA members dozens of times.

Western Michigan University Adopts Institutional Neutrality Using HxA's Policy ModelGuided by HxA's institutional neutrality policy model and supported by the WMU HxA Campus Chapter, Western Michigan joined more than 160 universities adopting statement neutrality using our tools to drive evidence-backed change.

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Campus Chapters Organizing for Change

Member-led chapters have been advancing campus reform since 2023 — department by department, policy by policy.

How One CU Boulder Department Ended DEI Statements in Faculty HiringHxA members and Campus Community Co-Chairs Matthew Burgess and Peter Newton wanted to reform faculty hiring to better reflect academic values. Instead of only critiquing DEI statements, they offered a constructive alternative: service statements — and got their department to adopt them.

How the University of Wyoming Embraced Open Inquiry Across Hiring, Speech, and GovernanceThrough deliberative governance processes and broad consultation, UW adopted a set of policies reinforcing intellectual, academic, and expressive freedoms; institutional neutrality; civil discourse; and merit-based hiring — a comprehensive model for what campus-wide open inquiry reform can look like.

The Campus Chapter Network Grows to 82 Institutions in 2025Stanford, Brigham Young, University of Waterloo, and the University of Arkansas joined the Campus Chapter Network in 2025, alongside dozens of existing communities that collectively hosted more than 230 programs and events this past year.

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Equipping Members with Research & Tools

The Mike & Sofia Segal Center for Academic Pluralism produces a wide range of reports and resources to give members the evidence and practical tools they need to make change.

HxA's Four-Point Agenda for Reforming Colleges and UniversitiesReleased in July 2025, the Open Inquiry U Agenda lays out four concrete commitments universities can make to strengthen open inquiry — the framework now being adopted, in whole or in part, at institutions such as Harvard Medical School and Yale.

The Rising Tide of Institutional Statement NeutralityThe Segal Center maintains the most comprehensive public database of institutional neutrality policies — now tracking more than 160 universities — alongside the first major report analyzing the wave of recent adoptions.

Sway Helps 6,400+ Students Practice Constructive DisagreementDeveloped by HxA members, Sway is an AI-powered platform helping students have better, more constructive conversations across any topic. Over one hundred faculty are now using it in their classrooms to foster the essential skills of scholarly engagement.

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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.

Smriti MehtaPostdoctoral Scholar at the Berkeley School of EducationUC Berkeley

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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.

Jennifer TownsendExecutive Assistant to the Lee Honors College dean and adjunct instructorWestern Michigan University

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2025 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 2025 Annual Report to see how we are advancing our mission.

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Members Demonstrating Principles

Utah State University’s Bold Bet on “Civic Excellence” to Reform General EducationFebruary 26, 2026

How Duke University is Promoting Civil Dialogue Through “Transformative Ideas”December 17, 2025

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Meet the heterodox president of a prison-based liberal arts college.August 27, 2025

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