We invite you to join the National Association of Scholars tomorrow at 11 am ET for a special discussion with Heather MacDonald and Pat Kambhampati. We also invite you to join us on Tuesday, April 18, at 2 pm ET for a discussion on the invention of the cotton gin.

More on our upcoming webinars and additional events:

Join the National Association of Scholars on Tuesday, April 4, at 11 am ET for "MIT Debate Preview with Heather MacDonald and Pat Kambhampati."

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ideology has swept through the academy like a prairie fire. The most troubling conflagration has been in the sciences, where the scientific ideal of the objective search for truth is being transformed into an ongoing class struggle session. Science and technology are being harmed as a result.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has not escaped, with the MIT administration enthusiastically fanning the flames. In response, a group of MIT alumni formed the MIT Free Speech Alliance (MFSA). Their first project was to organize an open and free debate on the question: Should academic DEI programs be abolished?

Our guests on this special episode of Restoring the Sciences will be Heather MacDonald, Thomas W Smith Fellow and Contributing Editor at the Manhattan Institute; and Pat Kambhampati of McGill University, who will team to defend the Pro side of the question. Both have been prominent opponents of DEI ideology and defenders of the ideals of free enquiry and intellectual independence of the sciences.

Please join us at 11 am ET for a preview of what is to come on the debate stage. If you would like to register for the full debate later that evening, follow this link: https://www.mitfreespeech.org/2023-debate.

To learn more about the event, click here.

Join the National Association of Scholars on Tuesday, April 18, at 2 pm ET for "Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin."

The cotton gin transformed the production of cotton from a process requiring painstaking labor into something far more industrialized.

What were the effects of the cotton gin's creation and widespread use? What do we know about Eli Whitney and why he created his variation on the cotton gin?

Speakers will be announced shortly!

To learn more about the event, click here. 

Join the National Association of Scholars on Tuesday, April 4, for a special co-sponsored event. 

On Tuesday, April 4, at 7:30 pm ET, the MIT Free Speech Alliance and the Adam Smith Society are co-hosting a debate with the resolution: “Resolved, that academic DEI programs should be abolished.” The event will feature Heather Mac Donald and Karith Foster. You may register to attend the debate in person by clicking here.

Please note: non-MIT email addresses should register for the option “RSVP (Non-COVID PASS SOs, Guests)”, where you will then have to create a guest account.

If you can't attend our webinar events live, you can still register to watch the recordings. All registrants will receive a follow-up email with a link to the recording shortly after each event.

If you have missed any of our past events or webinars, you may find all of our recordings here: https://www.youtube.com/@NAScholars/streams.

I look forward to seeing you in the virtual audience!

Best,
Chance Layton
Director of Communications
National Association of Scholars