Johns Hopkins & AEI Announce DEI Program for Conservative Academics

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Johns Hopkins works to bolster intellectual pluralism across the university

Partnership with American Enterprise Institute scholars includes collaborative research, teaching, and graduate pipeline projects; other initiatives aim to increase heterodox faculty across the university

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For more than a year, Johns Hopkins University and the American Enterprise Institute—a leading center-right think tank based in Washington, D.C.—have been building bridges to facilitate collaborative work between interested scholars in both institutions. This work aims to model intellectual pluralism, convey the importance of rooting teaching and research with implications for the nation's common life in a broad range of points of view, and encourage greater intellectual diversity in the university community.

These programs were forged in the wake of an October 2023 event at AEI with Daniels, based on his 2021 book, What Universities Owe Democracy. During his remarks, Daniels focused on the longstanding lack of conservative intellectuals being recruited into the ranks of the faculty at American universities, particularly in social science and humanities disciplines. Daniels observed in the book: "Throughout my career, I have seen many brilliant conservative scholars flee the academy for think tanks, where they feel their ideas will be more readily welcomed. This brain drain cannot be healthy for the university. If the professoriate continues to congregate on the political left, it shortchanges conservative and liberal students alike."
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