Free Speech and Inclusion on Campus: A Discussion Guide
Posted by American Association of Colleges and Universities on February 11, 2025
This guide by the American Association of Colleges and University’s Institute for Democracy and Higher Education (IDHE) offers a framework for discussion, viewpoints for consideration, facilitation tips, and a short primer on the First Amendment.
Too often, speech and inclusion are described as a zero-sum game in which one trumps the other. That is not a given, especially if academic freedom is viewed not as a right but as a responsibility. Can we shift the conversation to a discussion of academic freedom as a collective duty, a responsibility inherent in the social contract between higher education and democracy?
Academic freedom entails the responsibility to study and teach disciplines, and to offer cocurricular programming, in ways that are publicly relevant and that inform discussions about the most pressing social, economic, and political challenges. Defending democracy means defending the academic freedom to examine and draw attention to the threats facing democracy.
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