Harvard President Claudine Gay, University of Pennsylvania then-President Elizabeth Magill and MIT President Sally Kornbluth testify before Congress on Dec. 5, 2023.
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University codes of conduct support their mission to educate. But it’s not easy to balance those codes with the values of free speech, as the resignation of a prominent university president shows.
‘Free speech zones’ and other efforts to limit free speech on campus are igniting controversies across the nation.
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Though free speech on campus is often a divisive issue, solutions are not hard to find, a First Amendment scholar argues.
Why do campuses have “free speech zones”?
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Are speech codes and free-speech zones silencing speech on college and university campuses?