https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNx3xGOKjc0
Recording from Heterodox Academy Conference 2024 in Chicago, June 2024. #Hxa2024Presented by the Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression at the University of C

https://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/04/faculty-working-groups-formed-on-institutional-voice-fostering-open-inquiry/
April 12, 2024 long read. Interim Harvard President Alan Garber and Interim Provost John Manning announced faculty working groups to examine how and when the University should speak as an institution and another on the nature of open inquiry, challenging discourse, disagreement, and debate on campus. The Gazette sat down with Manning and group

https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2024/institutional-voice/
Today, we are delighted to share with the Harvard community the Working Group's report, containing a set of principles and recommendations that ground the use of institutional voice in the University's mission of "seeking truth through open inquiry, debate, and weighing . . . evidence." In particular, the report concludes that "[t]he

https://provost.harvard.edu/open-inquiry-and-academic-freedom
On Thursday, April 4, Interim President Alan M. Garber and Interim Provost John F. Manning announced two University-wide initiatives to address issues of critical importance at the University. To reinforce and nurture a culture of academic excellence, the President and Provost are convening two working groups to explore how best to further cultivate an environment of open inquiry, constructive

https://news.virginia.edu/content/state-education-leaders-meet-uva-discuss-free-speech-campuses
The audience in Newcomb Hall included the presidents of every public college and university in Virginia and 17 of the 23 private institutions. The idea for the Higher Education Summit on Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity was to gather college leaders and discuss ways they could better support free speech on their campuses, even when a

https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-presidents-think-everything-is-swell-on-their-campuses-survey/
Inside Higher Ed's 14th annual survey of university presidents reveals that, ... (82 percent) believe the climate for open inquiry and dialogue on their campus is good or excellent. However

https://apnews.com/article/free-speech-on-college-campuses-84ffdc68e191fcfa5185954402fdb677
Updated 11:58 AM PDT, August 15, 2023. The presidents of a wide-ranging group of 13 universities are elevating free speech on their campuses this academic year, as part of a new nonprofit initiative announced Tuesday to combat what organizers call dire threats to U.S. democracy. The Campus Call for Free Expression will take different forms on

https://news.uchicago.edu/defending-campus-free-speech-polarized-age-paul-alivisatos-and-tom-ginsburg
He joins our podcast along with President Paul Alivisatos to talk about why universities must have a commitment to free inquiry—and how this new forum plans to promote free and open discourse, while addressing present-day challenges. Related: University of Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression to launch with Oct. 5-6 events

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2023/12/harvard-free-speech-campus-panel
Free Speech on Campus. On Tuesday evening, one week after the Congressional hearing that prompted demands for President Claudine Gay's dismissal and less than 12 hours after Harvard Corporation members released a statement confirming their support for her continued leadership, a group of scholars gathered at the Radcliffe Institute for a long

https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/free-speech-campus-report-university-faculty-committee
In light of recent events that have tested the commitment of colleges and universities across the nation to free and open discourse on campus, University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer appointed a faculty committee, chaired by me, to prepare a statement articulating the University of Chicago's commitment "to free, robust, and uninhibited debate and deliberation among all members of the

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/opinion/campus-protests.html
The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. A version of this

https://www.diverseeducation.com/faculty-staff/article/15658493/panel-university-presidents-discuss-when-to-make-statements-and-speak-out-on-current-affairs
"The office of the president has the unique power to embody the mission and values of their school," said discussion moderator Dr. Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill, director of BPC's Campus Free Expression Project."When a president speaks, it has particular resonance for the entire campus community and even the wider public."

https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/magazine/winter-2017-on-u-s-campuses-free-inquiry-is-taking-a-beating/
The university president immediately said that whoever chalked the slogan would be punished. ... That is not an environment conducive to free speech and open inquiry. If there is always the risk that things you say could trigger a complaint to a legal authority—perhaps even an anonymous complaint—then everyone begins walking on eggshells

https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/restoring-free-inquiry-on-campus
Spring 2018. In recent years, the foundational values of free speech and open inquiry have increasingly come under assault at the nation's colleges and universities. Every week, it seems, there is a story concerning campus speech codes being imposed, speakers being silenced, or faculty members being assailed for wrong-think.

https://policies.uoregon.edu/vol-2-academics-instruction-research/ch-5-academic-freedom/academic-freedom-freedom-inquiry-and-free
This policy outlines the University's position regarding academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, and free speech. All members of the UO community, including students, faculty, staff, and others affiliated with the University. For questions about this policy, please contact the Office of the Provost at 541-346-3486 or otp@uoregon.edu. 14 May

https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2024/03/18/college-presidents-are-oblivious-to-their-campus-climate/
The 2024 edition of Inside Higher Ed's survey of college and university presidents" sadly reveals that many higher education leaders are oblivious to the issues of free speech on their own campuses. This should give anyone interested in the state of our colleges and universities pause. The 2024 survey captured the voices of 380 presidents

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/08/1218314691/after-a-disastrous-testimony-three-college-presidents-face-calls-to-resign
On Wednesday, the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania testified before the House on antisemitism on college campuses. All three are facing calls to resign.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2024/02/29/presidents-survey-finds-optimism-amid-uncertainty
College leaders across the U.S. are confident about their institution's finances, worried about waning public confidence in higher education and the upcoming presidential election, and ambivalent about artificial intelligence, the latest Inside Higher Ed survey of College and University Presidents shows.. Now in its 14th year, the survey has evolved in accordance with higher education trends.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15554589211035155
In this case, the university President, Dr. Boudreux, was tasked with managing the impact of COVID-19 on campus along with the challenges of cultivating a campus culture in the online learning community that followed. Although this case may be specific, university Presidents must be ready to handle a multitude of possible campus crises.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/05/college-presidents-house-republicans-antisemitism-response-00130037
Education. College presidents face down House Republicans over antisemitism response Few members of the GOP conference will likely be able to resist the opportunity to needle some of the nation

https://www.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/June-2024-preliminary-recommendations-AMAAB.pdf?ios_app=true
On January 19, 2024, Interim President Alan Garber established two Presidential Task Forces: one devoted to combating anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bias, and one devoted to combating ... While we discuss our recommendations regarding enabling Intellectual Excellence in ... Committee on Open Inquiry to include in its work the production of a Harvard

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/01/readers-toughest-questions-for-university-presidents/677087/
Dwight's question: "Define 'education' and its value to society in terms an uneducated person can understand .". He explains: I am a doctor. My clinical time is spent trying to translate

https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/10/28/scandal-trust-role-college-presidents-times-crisis/
By Jerry Lucido, Julie Posselt, and Maria Claudia Soler. ACE partnered with researchers from the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education to field a national survey of college and university presidents in March to better understand their viewpoints on college admissions and public trust in higher education, including their thoughts on the Operation Varsity Blues scandal.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2024/04/16/provosts-survey-shows-need-ai-policies-speech
Artificial Intelligence. As with Inside Higher Ed's 2024 presidents' poll, this marks the first time our annual provosts' survey asked about AI.The questions come at an important moment: Generative AI has advanced rapidly over the past year, raising the specter of widespread abuse by both students and faculty members who can use it to produce journal articles that read like unassisted

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/politics/fact-checking-the-cnn-presidential-debate/index.html
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump faced off during CNN's presidential debate in Atlanta Thursday night.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/23-411_2024-06-26
For instance, Hines reports that Facebook imposed several restrictions on her vaccine-related posts in the spring of 2023. Around the same time, in April 2023, President Biden signed a joint resolution that ended the national COVID-19 emergency. See Pub. L. 118-3, 137 Stat. 6. The next month, the White House disbanded its COVID-19

https://news.uci.edu/2024/06/29/uci-podcast-review-of-first-presidential-debate-of-2024/
On Thursday, June 27, in Atlanta, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump faced off in the first debate of the 2024 presidential election. The event marked the first debate in U.S. history between a sitting and former president and was the first time the presumptive nominees for their respective parties had been on a debate stage