The Mike & Sofia Segal Center for Academic Pluralism

Heterodox Academy spearheads a movement to reform institutions of higher education. The goal is for institutions of higher education to better exemplify the ideals of open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement. But activist zeal isn’t enough. Effective change demands effective ideas—ideas about what the problems are, ideas about what the solutions are, and ideas about how to implement those solutions in the real, messy, complex world.

The Segal Center for Academic Pluralism is the ideas laboratory of Heterodox Academy. Its mission is to generate, test, criticize, and spread among university leaders, academics, cultural commentators, politicians, and the general public ideas about the ideals of open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement in higher education. Its researchers engage public discourse and policy debates about the purposes and workings of higher education.

The Segal Center hosts research fellows from various academic disciplines whose work aims to articulate and commend open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement; describe the prospects and challenges to their realization; uncover effective pathways to their promotion; and devise strategies for their advancement. Segal Center research fellows conduct original theoretical, normative, and data-driven research about higher education; they survey extant research; and they drive wider conversation about open inquiry in higher education.

If you are interested in supporting the Segal Center’s work, please reach out to Malik Peacock at peacock@heterodoxacademy.org.