One of the most debated questions in higher education today is whether there is room for campus for conservative voices and various points of view.
A few steps from Harvard Yard, a group has been trying to create this space for years. He hosts reading groups focused on the western canon. And he brought speakers like Peter Thiel, the conservative billionaire, and Adrian Vermeule, a Harvard law professor who supported the idea of a world Catholic theocracy.
The capture? This is not part of Harvard.
The Abigail Adams Institute is an independent institute which is part of a wider network of a dozen centers located near elite universities, notably Yale, Princeton and Stanford. The objective is to create an intellectual community that completes what students can find on their own campuses.
The director of the Institute said that the recent national and international turbulence led more students to come to its events (a recent conference was standing only). At a time when Harvard was examined by the Republicans who argue that his campus leans on the left, the students involved in the Institute say that it serves information and discussions that can be difficult to find in university classrooms.
A perception among the conservatives that their opinions are excluded on elite university campuses has become one of the discord points in an ongoing battle between Harvard and the Trump administration. The federal government has required That Harvard submits to an external examination of his disciplines for the “diversity from a point of view” and an audit of hiring practices to ensure that the services did not use “decisive ideological tests”, among others.
Harvard refused, pursuit The government after threatening to reduce federal subsidies in order to force compliance.
