The report's commitments track closely with HxA's four-point Open Inquiry U agenda
Principles in Action
Our members are leading the way on internal reform. If you've been waiting for the right moment to stand up for open inquiry and the intellectual culture universities were built on — it's here.
Plenty of people in higher ed — thousands, in fact — share your principles. A lot of them are working in isolation, with no idea the person two buildings over feels the same way. Your free HxA membership is how that changes.
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HxA wants to do work that is truly boundary-breaking to enable a university that is grounded in truth with no boundaries, no taboos.
All we had to do was look at the Heterodox Academy website — the toolbox that you had created, the model statements gave us a roadmap for how we could proceed.
Lasting reform doesn't happen to universities; it happens inside them.
Dive into inspiring narratives from members of Heterodox Academy as they share their personal journeys and motivations for joining our community.
Our resource library gives members the tools they need for driving change in their classrooms and on their campus.
Our case studies highlight how HxA members have brought change on their campuses and help educate new members on how they can bring change too.
HxA members and CU Boulder 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.
Using HxA’s Institutional Neutrality policy model as their guide, Western Michigan University (WMU) joined the ranks of the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and more than 150 other universities in adopting a policy of statement neutrality, whereby institutional leaders practice principled restraint of public statements on contentious issues.
Through deliberative governance processes and broad consultation, UW adopted a set of policies designed to reinforce intellectual, academic, and expressive freedoms; institutional neutrality; civil discourse; and merit-based hiring.
Data is essential to informed pedagogy and policy on campus. HxA’s Segal Center for Academic Pluralism tracks trends and analyzes the latest data to support our members.
Martha McCaughey, special assistant to the president at the University of Wyoming, leads a campus initiative on free expression, intellectual freedom, and constructive dialogue. Martha’s focus is rebuilding public trust by ensuring that the knowledge universities generate is credible and serves the public good, not special interests.
Abigail Saguy, Professor of Sociology at UCLA, shares how she transformed her classroom by making dialogue across differences a core learning objective. Looking for community and tools to help, she discovered HxA and was introduced to Sway, an AI-powered platform designed to help students practice hard conversations.