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ACTA president to testify in Pennsylvania hearing
This morning, ACTA president Anne D. Neal will testify before the Pennsylvania Select Committee on Academic Freedom in Higher Education. Neal's testimony comes in the wake of ACTA's bruising December report showing that while a number of American colleges and universities have begun paying lip service to the need to attend to issues of intellectual diversity and genuine ideological tolerance, their efforts amount to a hollow and cynical attempt to maintain the very status quo that they now admit is a problem.
Here is ACTA's press release announcing today's testimony:
Pennsylvania Select Committee on Academic Freedom in Higher Education to Discuss Intellectual Diversity
ACTA's President to Call for Legislation Directed to College and University Trustees
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Temple University Student Center, Rooms B and C
13th Street and Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
10 a.m.
PHILADELPHIA, PA, January 9, 2006 -- The Pennsylvania House Select Committee on Academic Freedom in Higher Education will hold a hearing tomorrow on intellectual diversity in higher education with American Council of Trustees and Alumni president Anne Neal as a lead witness. ACTA is a national network of trustees and alumni dedicated to academic freedom, excellence and accountability in higher education.
"We are pleased that the Committee is drawing attention to the issue of intellectual diversity on our college and university campuses," said Neal. "The lack of intellectual diversity is the most serious challenge facing higher education and should be of profound concern to all of us interested in the education of our next generation."
Neal's testimony will examine the severe political imbalance in college and university faculties, student survey data documenting politicization of the classroom and continuing denial by many in the academic community that a problem exists. In spite of a statement by 30 higher education organizations recognizing the importance of intellectual diversity in June 2005, a recent survey by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni shows that not a single institution has taken concrete steps to further that goal.
The testimony will present recommendations for ways institutions can ensure intellectual diversity and call upon the legislature to demand a report annually from state boards of trustees outlining steps taken to promote and enhance intellectual diversity and the robust exchange of ideas on campus.A copy of Neal's complete testimony is available upon request.
ACTA is a nonprofit educational organization of trustees and alumni dedicated to academic freedom and excellence. For further information, call 202-467-6787.
Neal's appearance at the hearings follows a lackluster Monday in which a professor who was supposed to testify about liberal bias at Temple failed to appear, a student witness admitted to never having filed a complaint about the liberal bias he had allegedly experienced, and the president of Temple claimed that during his five year tenure not a single complaint about political bias has been filed at the university, despite established procedures for doing just that.
Posted by acta online at January 10, 2006 08:30 AM
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