This guide is designed to assist college and university governing boards in understanding and adopting a policy of institutional neutrality. It explains what institutional neutrality means, why it is essential for maintaining an inclusive and academically rigorous environment, and how strong policies can protect institutions from political partisanship. By outlining the principles that supports neutrality and offering guidance on steps boards can take, this guide aims to help trustees ensure that their institutions remain spaces where ideas can be freely explored and all students, faculty, and staff feel respected and represented.
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In this episode of Radio Free Campus, co-hosts Steve McGuire and Justin Garrison talk about how a recent Wall Street Journal article criticizing institutional neutrality makes the same mistakes as previous objections to such policies. The podcast hosts also discuss a recent article in Compact about a distinguished professor leaving Harvard for the greater intellectual […]
There are certain truths of American political life that antedate even the Founding and are as important for our age as they were for ages past. Among these are that demagogues hold most sway over the ignorant, that a free people must be an informed people, and that representative democracy requires widespread education to flourish. […]
In February of 2024, ACTA sent a letter to all governing board members at over 1,500 four-year public and private institutions asking that their boards consider adopting a policy of institutional neutrality. The letter states, "Colleges and universities that remain above the political fray can most effectively help students learn how to think, not what to think.
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