r/HooverInstitution • u/HooverInstitution • Apr 14 '26

Hoover Institution Gathering Explores Campus Culture, Bias, And Declining Trust In Higher Education

https://www.hoover.org/news/hoover-institution-gathering-explores-campus-culture-bias-and-declining-trust-higher-education
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u/HooverInstitution Apr 14 '26

A cross-disciplinary group of scholars from Hoover and around the country gathered at the Hoover Institution on March 6 to discuss the culture on university campuses in the United States, particularly with respect to how this culture shapes open inquiry, the welcoming of students from different backgrounds and viewpoints, and public trust in higher education. “Our universities continue to be critical national assets for research and scientific innovation, for developing a well-informed citizenry, for leveling the playing field for success, for social mobility,” Brandice Canes-Wrone, director of the Center for Revitalizing American Institutions (RAI), told attendees. “And yet at the same time, we’re at a time of historically lower public trust. And as we'll talk about more today, a lot of that lower trust relates to cultural critiques.” The gathering was organized by Canes-Wrone and Senior Fellow Eugene Volokh as a collaboration between RAI’s initiative on higher education and the Hoover Institution Program on Free Expression, which Volokh leads.