Monday October 31, 2016, 3:30-5:00pm
Stokely Management Center, Room G2
The UT Faculty Senate and the UTK Chapter of the American Association for University Professors (AAUP) will host an open forum on “Free Speech and Diversity,” Monday October 31,
For a PDF copy of this flyer, click here.
3:30-5pm in Stokely Management Center, Room G2. The forum will include faculty, student and community panelists, and will examine ways that we protect free speech rights while also creating a campus that is “welcoming to all and hostile to none.” Current campus policies in Hilltopics, The UTK Faculty Handbook and UTK’s Civility and Community Principles will serve to frame the discussions.
Planned Speakers:
Teri Baxter, Professor of Law, UT Knoxville
Often teaches difficult, controversial content in academic courses.
Susan Mclean Benner, Associate Dean & Director of the Graduate School of Education, UT Knoxville
Expertise on diversity and educational theory and policy.
Tom Castelli, Legal Director, ACLU – Nashville Office
Expertise on campus speech in relation to basic civil liberties.
Glenn Reynolds, Professor of Law, UT Knoxville
Expertise on the intersection of free speech and academic freedom.
Colleen Ryan, Student Coordinator for SEAT (Sex Week)
Experience with student initiated programming as a form of free speech.
Britton Sharp, Collegiate Abbey, UT Knoxville
Addressing the issue of free speech and religious expression.
For more information, contact Beauvais Lyons (blyons@utk.edu)
Campus Documents
Hilltopics: Campus Policies and Procedures
http://hilltopics.utk.edu/campus-policies-procedures/
- Anti-Hazing
- Freedom of Assembly and Demonstration
- Incidents of Bias
- Literature Distribution
- Non-Discrimination
- Use of University Property & Use for Free Expression Activities
Student Code of Conduct
http://hilltopics.utk.edu/student-code-of-conduct/
UTK Faculty Handbook
http://provost.utk.edu/faculty-handbook/
10 Principles of Civility and Community
http://civility.utk.edu/principles/
Selected On-line Resources and Articles:
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
https://www.thefire.org/
New York Times article about FIRE, August 1, 2016
http://nytimes.com/2016/08/07/education/edlife/fire-first-amendment-on-campus-free-speech.html?_r=0
Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression, University of Chicago
http://provost.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/documents/reports/FOECommitteeReport.pdf
Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Education article about University of Chicago Letter
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/08/25/u-chicago-warns-incoming-students-not-expect-safe-spaces-or-trigger-warnings
Eric Heinz, “19 Arguments for Hate Speech Bans – and Against Them”
http://freespeechdebate.com/en/discuss/nineteen-arguments-for-hate-speech-bans-and-against-them/
AAUP Statement of Trigger Warnings, August 2014
https://www.aaup.org/report/trigger-warnings
Erika Price, “I Use Trigger Warnings in My Classes – Here’s Why”
https://medium.com/@erikadprice/hey-university-of-chicago-i-am-an-academic-1beda06d692e#.rfpsd5sfv
“And Campus for All: Diversity, Inclusion and Freedom” PEN America Report, October 17, 2016
https://pen.org/sites/default/files/PEN_campus_report_final_online_2.pdf
Morton Shapiro, “I’m Northwestern President: Here’s Why Safe Spaces for Students are Important”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-to-create-inclusive-campus-communities-first-create-safe-places/2016/01/15/069f3a66-bb94-11e5-829c-26ffb874a18d_story.html
Cameron Okeke, “I’m a black UChicago graduate. Safe spaces got me through college.” http://www.vox.com/2016/8/29/12692376/university-chicago-safe-spaces-defense
Emmitt Rensin, “The smug style in American liberalism.”
http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberalism
Sophie Downs, “Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces and Free Speech, Too”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/opinion/trigger-warnings-safe-spaces-and-free-speech-too.html?_r=0
Nathan Heller, The Big Uneasy, What’s roiling the liberal-arts Campus?”
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/the-new-activism-of-liberal-arts-colleges
On the Media, September 2, 2016 has three stories on this subject:
http://www.wnyc.org/story/free-expression-takes-work
http://www.wnyc.org/story/defense-trigger-warnings-cornell
http://www.wnyc.org/story/freedom-to-disagree