# Professor Jonathan Haidt is interviewed about viewpoint diversity on college campuses

1 Faculty News September 22, 2017 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025699.jpg?itok=5SpaxEbn)>

Excerpt from the [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/902581a0-99ff-11e7-b83c-9588e51488a0) -- "'It’s the meltdown of a major American institution,' says NYU sociology professor [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt), who has co-founded a non-profit group, Heterodox Academy, to advocate for viewpoint diversity and free inquiry on US campuses. While Haidt is a centrist who has never voted for a Republican, he is disturbed by the culling of conservative voices on campuses."

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