Higher Education Has a Viewpoint Diversity Problem. Here’s How to Respond.
Harvard Professor and Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard member Tyler J. VanderWeele outlines the issue of viewpoint diversity as it relates to the search for truth. At Harvard, the ratio of liberal to conservative faculty is 26:1.
“If this lack of viewpoint diversity were simply due to the steady conquest of ignorance by knowledge, this would be worth celebrating. The reality, however, is that ideological or political homogeneity often just inhibits the pursuit of truth, sometimes causing entire areas of inquiry to be neglected. This hinders universities’ missions of generating, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and preparing students for democratic citizenship.”
Read the counter argument by HKS professor Pippa Norris— Young Scholars Are Not the Enemies of Free Speech on Campus
