College Matters from The Chronicle

Is ‘Intellectual Diversity’ a Trap?


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Lately, calls for “intellectual diversity” are all the rage. From President Trump, to right-wing think tanks, to college presidents, arguments abound for adding more conservative voices to the professoriate. But are these arguments being made in good faith? How liberal are faculty, really? And what does a push for a narrowed, classics-driven curriculum mean for the canon-expanding courses that some colleges now offer on subjects as diverse as the Grateful Dead and Taylor Swift?
Related Reading: 

Higher Education Needs to Embrace a Diversity of Beliefs (Fox News/ Gordon Gee)

Viewpoint Diversity is a MAGA Plot (The Review / Lisa Siraganian) 

How One State’s 'Intellectual Diversity' Law Has Changed Professors’ Teaching (The Chronicle

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Brock Read, deputy managing editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education

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