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Should feds require 'intellectual diversity' among university faculties?
- In April 2025, the Trump administration sent Harvard a letter with 10 demands requiring an audit for viewpoint diversity across students, faculty, staff, and leadership.
- This action stems from an executive order aimed at reforming higher education accreditation, accusing accreditors of enforcing discriminatory ideology and mandating intellectual diversity among faculty.
- The order directs Harvard to submit the audit to the federal government and hire or admit until each department achieves a critical mass of viewpoint diversity.
- The executive order states that accreditors gatekeep over $100 billion in federal student aid annually and aims to advance academic freedom by prioritizing intellectual diversity among faculty.
- Responses vary as scholars like Scott Yenor see this as a corrective step for a true marketplace of ideas, while critics like Heather Mac Donald view the mandate as bureaucratic overreach despite supporting intellectual diversity goals.
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Should feds require 'intellectual diversity' among university faculties?
(The Center Square) – Through more than 140 executive orders, President Donald Trump in his first 100-plus days in office has used his signing pen like a battering ram to undo sometimes decades-old policies and practices that have shaped the…
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