Ambassador Frank E. Baxter Annual Lecture
The Ambassador Frank E. Baxter Lecture engages high-profile intellectual leaders whose expertise and scholarship focus on the ideal of freedom in political and economic life. Read more
Open Exchange Grants Program
The Open Exchange Grants program invites faculty to redesign specific sessions and assessments to focus on socially controversial topics, helping students develop skills in respectful and thoughtful engagement with differing viewpoints. Read more
Difficult Conversations Initiative
The first event under this series, held on April 15, 2025, was a Deliberative Polling event on the use of standardized testing in University of California admissions. Read more
Graduate Student Intellectual Diversity Initiative
The Graduate Student Intellectual Diversity Initiative (GSIDI) aims to broaden intellectual diversity in academia by attending to the pipelines that eventually produce future university faculty. GSIDI is organized by the Johns Hopkins University SNF Agora Institute and the American Enterprise Institute, with participating faculty from leading universities around the US. Read more