Past Viewpoint Diversity Events
June 28, 2018
Viewpoint Diversity: Restoring America for Higher Education as the Marketplace of
Ideas, Toward a Conservatism of Connection: Reclaiming the American Project
Malibu, CA
In partnership with the The American Project
Panelists:
Kaitlyn S. Carwin (MPP '18), The American Project
James Kirchick, Brookings Institution
Heather MacDonald, Manhattan Institute
Sarah Ruger, Charles Koch Institute
Jon Shields, Claremont McKenna College
Moderator:
Pete Peterson, dean, School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University
May 11, 2017
American Enterprise Institute
Washington, DC
In partnership with the Pacific Research Institute
Presenter:
Jon Shields
Associate Professor, Claremont McKenna College
Author, Passing on the Right: Conservative Professor in the Progressive University
Response:
Samuel J. Abrams, American Enterprise Institute
Panelists:
Samuel J. Abrams, American Enterprise Institute
Gerard Alexander, University of Virginia
Eliot Cohen, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
James Gimpel, University of Maryland
Samuel Goldman, The George Washington University
Moderator:
Pete Peterson, dean, School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University
January 27, 2017
Omni Hotel
San Francisco, CA
In partnership with the Pacific Research Institute
Presenter:
Jon Shields
Associate Professor, Claremont McKenna College
Author, Passing on the Right: Conservative Professor in the Progressive University
Panelists:
Russell Berman, Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities; professor of comparative literature
and German studies, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
David Brady, Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor of Political Science and Leadership Values, Stanford University
Henry Brady, dean, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Michael W. McConnell, Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and director of the Constitutional Law Center, Stanford School of Law; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Moderator:
Pete Peterson, dean, School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University
September 23, 2016
California Club
Los Angeles, CA
Presenter:
Jon Shields
Associate Professor, Claremont McKenna College
Author, Passing on the Right: Conservative Professor in the Progressive University
Panelists:
Dr. Bradley Campbell, Associate Professor of Sociology, California State University, Los Angeles
Dr. Ted McAllister, Edward L. Gaylord Chair/Associate Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University,
School of Public Policy
Dr. John Matsusaka, Charles F. Sexton Chair of American Enterprise, University of Southern California,
Marshall School of Business
Dr. Gabriel Rossman, associate professor of sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
Moderator: Pete Peterson, dean, Pepperdine School of Public Policy
