AGENDA
1. Chair’s Report - Peter Gillett,
Senate Chair
2. Secretary’s Report
It is
published by Yale University Press.
Free
Speech on Campus, by Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard
Gillman
Can free speech coexist with an inclusive campus
environment?
Hardly
a week goes by without another controversy over free
speech on college campuses. On one side, there are increased demands to
censor hateful,
disrespectful, and bullying expression and to ensure an inclusive and
nondiscriminatory learning environment. On the other side are
traditional free
speech advocates who charge that recent demands for censorship coddle
students
and threaten free inquiry. In this clear and carefully reasoned book, a
university chancellor and a law school dean-both constitutional
scholars who
teach a course in free speech to undergraduates-argue that campuses
must
provide supportive learning environments for an increasingly diverse
student
body but can never restrict the expression of ideas. This book provides
the
background necessary to understanding the importance of free speech on
campus
and offers clear prescriptions for what colleges can and can't do when
dealing
with free speech controversies.
Erwin
Chemerinsky is the founding dean, distinguished
professor of law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law,
University of California, Irvine, School of Law.
Howard Gillman is chancellor and professor of law, political
science, and history, University of California, Irvine.