彩民宝典

The 彩民宝典 campus will begin a yearlong campus dialogue on academic听freedom with a Feb. 19 panel discussion titled 鈥淔aculty and Academic Freedom: Exploring meaning and application.鈥澨鼳 follow-up event will be hosted next fall focusing on how students experience and benefit from academic freedom.

The yearlong dialogue and the panel discussion are both co-sponsored by听Provost Russell Moore and Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs Michele Moses.听

Moore said he is sponsoring the campus dialogue and all its activities听because 鈥渋n the current moment, where issues of freedom of speech on听campus are often in the news, issues of academic freedom sometimes get subsumed and muddied.鈥� The panel discussion on Feb. 19 will be moderated听by Moore and Moses.听

鈥淲e will be looking at what academic freedom is and how it differs from听freedom of speech and expression,鈥� said Moses. 鈥淲e will be asking questions听such as what does the First Amendment protect鈥攁nd not protect鈥攁nd how is that related to and different from academic freedom? Who has academic freedom and what does academic freedom mean for faculty members as teachers,听researchers and artists? Also, what does it mean for students?鈥�

Moore gave further context on the purpose of the panel.

鈥淲e hope this panel will provide our campus community with an opportunity听for dialogue and reflection about the rights and responsibilities academic听freedom requires for faculty and the opportunities it affords students for rich experiences in the classroom, laboratory and studio,鈥� Moore said.

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