The National Association of Scholars (NAS) is hosting a discussion convening a panel of experts critical of diversity statements to review the recent institutional sea change on the practice (for example, the UC system recently abandoned the practice), stake out why diversity statements threaten Academic Freedom, Open Inquiry, and other academic institutional norms, and begin to think about where future conversations about academic freedom should go. 

The event will also serve to introduce the finding of NAS's soon-to-be released study on the national prevalence of diversity statements usage in university hiring, Ideological Insistence: A Quantitative Study of DEI Affirmations in American University Job Listings, will inform the first part of the discussion.  

This event will feature Nathan Honeycutt, of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression where his research has primarily focused on investigating political diversity and discrimination among university faculty and students as well as publishing and contributing to research on political bias, political polarization, censorship and scholarship suppression, and scientific integrity; Louis Galarowicz, Research Fellow at the National Association of Scholars and co-author of the Ideological Insistence report; Joshua T. Katz, a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the former Cotsen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, where he was on the faculty from 1998 to 2022; and Michael Regnier, Executive Director of Heterodox Academy, where he has helped launch a national network of faculty chapters the Segal Center for Academic Pluralism, and the inquisitive quarterly magazine. He is the former co-founder of a charter school in Brooklyn, New York, and a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Chicago. The panel will be moderated by Peter Wood, President of NAS.

When: Friday, April 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM ET

Where: NAS' New York City office located at 13 W 36th Street 4th Floor, New York, NY, 10018