Free speech and liberal education /

The status of free speech and academic freedom in the nation's colleges and universities has become an explosive issue. Reports of disruptions and disinvitations of speakers and a host of new speech-inhibiting policies instituted by campus bureaucracies are now commonplace. Critics claim that t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Downs, Donald Alexander (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A free speech crisis in higher education?
  • Framing the problem
  • What is the university? Truth, the intellectual polis, and historical change
  • Free speech and academic freedom
  • Major threats to academic free speech: contemporary policies and related aspects
  • The major threats: structural and more universal aspects
  • Contemporary surveys: making America safe for peanuts
  • Fitting it all together: the campus, the good life, and the republic
  • Campus mobilization and administrative reform.