Viewpoint Diversity
Alex Usher,
Higher Education Strategy Associates,
Sept 23, 2022
Alex Usher offers a good take-down of a recent MacDonald-Laurier Institute paper (54 page PDF) on "viewpoint diversity" at Canadian Universities, calling it "Really bad. Icelandic rotting shark bad. Crystal Pepsi bad. Final Season of Game of Thrones bad." He then offers a point by point demolition. The sample is biased. The scale is polarized. The survey measures the wrong thing. It has an absurd definition of 'academic freedom'. Etc. My own take on all of this is that 'viewpoint diversity' in Canadian academia (or anywhere else) can be an issue when and only when the demand for 'viewpoint diversity' is applied to corporate boardrooms and financial institutions. That's not going to happen, of course. So why don't we just let people believe what they believe and do the jobs they do?
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