UNC Charlotte wins the Heterodox Academy 2023 Open Inquiry Award for Institutional Excellence

UNC Charlotte was honored by the Heterodox Academy on September 20 with the 2023 Open Inquiry Award for Institutional Excellence, which they define as the college, university, or center/institute operating as part of a college or university that has done the most to advance or sustain open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement either on its own campus or nationally. They described the accomplishments as:

Led by the Free Expression & Constructive Dialogue Task Force, UNC Charlotte has launched a number of successful initiatives to become a leader in viewpoint diversity. In April 2023, the faculty overwhelmingly passed a free speech resolution based on the Chicago principles. The task force also created a Constructive Dialogue Faculty Learning Community to bring the tools of constructive dialogue into the classroom, in addition to creating a resource website for anyone on campus. And finally, the task force created the Charlotte Conversationalists, which is a new program that has trained 10 undergraduate students in the art of constructive dialogue and will support them to conduct student conversations in informal settings on campus, among other accomplishments

UNC Charlotte wins the Heterodox Academy 2023 Open Inquiry Award for Institutional Excellence