We invite you to join the National Association of Scholars at our New York City office for an in person report launch discussion and event this Friday, April 25, at 3 pm ET for "Ideological Insistence." Join us again on Tuesday, April 29, at 4 pm ET for "Professors Speak Out," a webinar event featuring testimonies from professors on the receiving end of questionable campus probes.

More on our upcoming events:

Join the National Association of Scholars for "Ideological Insistence" this Friday, April 25, at 3 pm ET.

“Ideological Insistence: Diversity Statements and the Challenge to Academic Freedom”
Friday April 25
3 pm ET
13 W 36th Street 4th Floor, New York, NY, 10018

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 Statements 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.

To learn more and RSVP for the event, click here. If you do not live in the NYC area or are unable to attend, please send this event listing to those in your circles who may be interested in attending! Additionally, I'd also like to offer you a discount on the ticket price by using this link or the promo code NAS_INVITE at checkout. Students can use this link or the code NAS_STUDENT at checkout.

Join the National Association of Scholars for "Professors Speak Out" on Tuesday, April 29, at 4 pm ET.

The newly released book Professors Speak Out: The Truth About Campus Investigations (Academica Press), offers an anthology of twenty stories from professors investigated by their universities. The book features the stories of 22 faculty members from a range of fields, and this work reveals a disturbing trend of college and university investigations. These narratives illustrate the growing number of questionable campus probes, often triggered by the articulation of unpopular viewpoints—expressions that ought to be defended by principles of free speech and academic freedom.  

We'll hear testimonies from Nicholas Wolfinger, Jason Kilborn, and Robert Frodeman about their investigations, followed by a discussion on academic freedom and an audience Q&A. 

This event will feature Nicholas H. Wolfinger, Professor of Family & Consumer Studies and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Utah, and between 2016 and 2011 he was investigated three times by his university; Jason Kilborn, a Professor of Law at the University of Illinois Chicago, where he teaches Civil Procedure along with commercial and business law, he recently established landmark precedent supporting the First Amendment rights of public university professors in his lawsuit against the university, and he looks forward to the next stages of that lawsuit in the coming months; and Robert Frodeman, a former professor who now writes on environmental philosophy and public policy, the philosophy of science and technology, and the future of the university.

To learn more and RSVP for the event, click here. 

If you have missed any of our past events or webinars, you may find all of our recordings here: https://www.youtube.com/@NAScholars/streams.

I look forward to seeing you in the audience!
 

Best,
Chance Layton
Director of Communications
National Association of Scholars