Harvard University

Our commitment to cultivating a campus culture where academic freedom, intellectual openness, and pluralism thrive is driven by our institutional motto, Veritas.

We seek to foster a community united in a commitment to embodying Harvard’s motto Veritas – “Truth”, where viewpoint diversity is not only tolerated but celebrated as essential to any Truth-seeking academic enterprise. An environment of “confident pluralism”, in which individuals from across the wide range of differing ideological, epistemological, and experiential perspectives discover their greatest thriving through engaging in good-faith dialogue across differences, enhancing each other’s capacities for critical thinking, and cultivating deeper understandings of complex issues. 

We believe that when disagreement is approached constructively, it becomes a powerful catalyst for intellectual growth, which in turn enhances individual and collective success in Truth-seeking. In this, we are deeply committed to protecting the principles of free speech and academic freedom. These rights are foundational to any institution devoted to learning and discovery. 

By forming a Harvard HxA Campus Community, we aim to create a space where students, faculty, and scholars can delight in asking difficult questions, in challenging prevailing orthodoxies, and in engaging in respectful, rigorous, and vigorous debate without fear of social or institutional reprisal. We are also deeply interested in connecting with and learning from HxA Campus Community chapters at other colleges and universities, so that we can collaboratively and synergistically accelerate progress toward our shared goals, in ways that also enhance each chapter’s progress toward its distinctive local goals. 

In short, we see the HxA mission as profoundly aligned with Harvard’s highest ideals, including especially as crystallized in its motto Veritas, and we are eager to help re-energize those ideals through thoughtful, inclusive, and courageous dialogue.