Graduate Student Intellectual Diversity Initiative

Academia has an intellectual diversity problem. As is increasingly evident to many on campus, regardless of political persuasion, there are serious intellectual and institutional consequences to having so few voices from the center to the right in higher education.

The Graduate Student Intellectual Diversity Initiative (GSIDI) is a joint project of the Johns Hopkins University SNF Agora Institute and the American Enterprise Institute that aims to help broaden intellectual diversity on campus by attending to the pipelines that eventually produce future university faculty.

Our program connects young conservative, moderate and heterodox liberal students, who may believe that higher education does not have a place for them, to professorial mentors in highly selective PhD-granting institutions. GSIDI currently focuses on political science. We hope, however, that this initial program will serve as a model for other disciplines that present different challenges and opportunities.

This project is co-directed by Jenna Storey and Johns Hopkins Professor Steve Teles.