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Manufactured Controversy:
We’re joining our partners at the Free Exchange on Campus Coalition in releasing a report demonstrating that the campaign against the free exchange of ideas in American colleges and universities is nothing but a Manufactured Controversy. Manufactured Controversy tells the tale of this now defeated anti-academic freedom movement – identifying the major players, funders, and tactics and provides a blueprint for supporters of the free exchange of ideas to combat and defeat these attacks when they arise. For more information, read the report. (pdf)
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Facts Still Count:
In 2006, we joined the Free Exchange on Campus coalition in releasing
Facts Count, documenting many of the inaccuracies, misrepresentations,
and distortions that David Horowitz used to smear college and
university faculty members in his book The Professors. Horowitz is
back with the same partisan attacks on higher education that he was
peddling three years ago in his new book, One-Party Classroom, and once
again he substitutes ideology for factual analysis in pressing his
dubious case. We’re reminding Horowitz, with a new report that Facts
Still Count. For more information, read the report. (pdf)
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Education Works Best With Free Exchange of Ideas:
The Center and our
coalition, Free Exchange on Campus, released a report called
“Campus Voices.” Throughout the spring of 2006, our staff were on the
ground speaking with faculty and students in Pennsylvania about the
“Academic Bill of Restrictions.” The report finds that students and
faculty learn and teach best when they have access to a free exchange
of ideas, unencumbered by restrictions. For more information, read the report. (pdf)
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Facts Count:
"Facts Count" examines David Horowitz’s book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America (Regnery, 2006), which brings up 101 academics on charges of indoctrinating their students with their political views. Since Mr. Horowitz’s charges are aimed at the core of professors’ professional ethics, we believe that they are not to be taken lightly. For Mr. Horowitz to accuse a single person of these charges—let alone 101—a reasonable person might expect him to do three things: examine the facts objectively, support his conclusions with sound evidence, and make recommendations that are in students’ best interests. We believe that Mr. Horowitz fails on all of these counts. For more information, read the report. (pdf)
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Toolkits
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The Free Speech Organizing Toolkit is designed to provide campus leaders and free speech supporters with the tools to work with higher education leaders to remove impediments to a marketplace of ideas on their campus. Download the Free Speech Organizing Toolkit (pdf). |
More toolkits:
Faculty toolkit for "Intellectual Diversity"
Student toolkit for "Intellectual Diversity"
Past Campus Free Speech Debates
Review our archive of past free speech debates.
Get Expert Help
The Center for Campus Free Speech can provide a variety of services:
Legal Advice - The Center works with a network of First Amendment scholars and is happy to provide legal guidance on a wide range of First Amendment issues.
Organizing Expertise - The Center employs a professional organizer to work with students, professors, and administrators to run campaigns to defeat censorship and affirm campus free speech.
Bring the Center to Your Campus - One of the best ways to protect and to promote free speech on campus is to bring a Center representative to your college or university. On campus, Center for Campus Free Speech staff can run trainings on issues ranging from student fees to speech zones to academic freedom in order to ensure that all students understand their First Amendment rights and know how to protect those rights.
Legal Representation - In addition to providing legal guidance, the Center can also help students find legal representation when their free speech rights have been violated.
To take advantage of any of these services, please contact us at 312-291-0396.
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