Heterodoxacademy.org Website Review

We are a politically diverse group of more than 2,300 professors and graduate students who have come together to improve the quality of research and education in universities by increasing viewpoint diversity, mutual understanding, and constructive disagreement. We offer a range of resources designed to cultivate reasoned conversations, de*per empathy, the ability to see beyond one’s own perspective, and a capacity for meaningful engagement with diverse others. We partner with professors, administrators, and students to An interactive, psychology-based platform designed to depolarize campuses and foster mutual understanding across differences. A self-report tool you can use to as*ess which students are feeling intimidated to speak up about which topics and why. Rates America’s top 200 universities according to the degree of viewpoint diversity you can expect to find on campus. Kevin Singer is a PhD Student at NC State University and Research As*ociate for the Interfaith Diversity Experiences and Attitudes Longitudinal Survey (@kevinsinger0). Matthew Mayhew is the William Ray and Marie Adamson Flesher Professor of Educational Administration at The Ohio State University (@MattJMayhewPhD). Alyssa Rockenbach is a professor of higher education at North Carolina State University (@ANRockenbach). When it comes to socializing college students to be successful in diverse environments, few approaches have received as much attention as the “safe space.” There is some deliberation on what qualifies as a safe space, and it is not exactly clear when and where the safe space concept was born. However the underlying logic runs as follows: students get the most out of diverse campus environments when there are clear measures in place to prevent overwhelming and potentially harmful challenges to one’s perspectives, to restrain ideas that are highly offensive to a majority of people (e.g., Holocaust or Sandy Hook deniers), to neutralize power imbalances between participants, and to curb hostility that could undermine a productive exchange of ideas.