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The Latest from BPC’s Campus Free Expression Project
Our newsletter this month invites you to celebrate Constitution Day this afternoon with a panel on campus civic culture and an article about how the First Amendment’s bedrock defense of freedom of conscience illuminates campus speech controversies. If you have any questions, please email Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill:  [email protected].
Events

Please join us today from 2-3 p.m. ET for a webinar featuring student leaders and campus voting experts to discuss promoting civic literacy and democratic participation at colleges and universities.

Featuring:

  • Anna Connole, Democracy Fellow, Center for Civic Engagement, James Madison University
  • Brendan T. Flaherty, Kevin B. Harrington Student Ambassador, New Hampshire Institute of Politics, Saint Anselm College
  • Emily Garcia, National Director of Youth Development and President, Arizona State University Chapter, Bridge USA
  • Mackenzie Meadows, President, Black Girls Vote, American University Chapter
  • Nancy Thomas, Director, Institute for Democracy and Higher Education, Tufts University

Watch live here.
Project Highlights

Project Fellow Steven F. Hayward observes: “Problems with free expression on campuses today arise less from dissatisfaction with how the First Amendment has been interpreted by the courts and implemented in practice but from new, widespread critiques of free speech.”

 

Our selection of 10 essential news stories, op-eds, and articles about campus free expression from the last month.

 

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