Free Speech and Campus Civility: Promoting Challenging but Constructive Dialog in Higher Education

by Jeffrey L Buller, Robert E Cipriano, Jeffrey L. Buller

Book Overview

Many colleges and universities are struggling to strike a balance between protecting free speech as a way of supporting their goal of academic freedom and promoting civility as a way of creating an environment where students can learn and faculty members can teach and conduct research. There have been numerous recent incidents of audiences shouting down speakers, burning books, and demanding that specific students be expelled or faculty members...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475861354
• ISBN13: 9781475861358
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"