Harvard Can’t Hire Its Way Into Viewpoint Diversity

Harvard professoriat worries school might hire a few token conservatives

‘Viewpoint diversity’ initiative likely to do little to change the culture on campus, but professors still worried Some Harvard University professors are worried the school might hire a few token conservatives under a “viewpoint diversity” initiative. But given the school’s deep seated problems with academic freedom and open debate, it’s unlikely anything of consequence will… Source

Harvard Can’t Hire Its Way Into Viewpoint Diversity

Take Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. While officially nonpartisan, the Hoover Institution espouses “ideals of peace, individual liberty, free enterprise, and limited government,” and is widely recognized as a conservative-leaning. Moreover, Hoover is guarded from administrative meddling — with its own governance and endowment independent of the school it calls home. Harvard could benefit from a similar space where faculty hires possess…