Speech Freedom on Campus: Past, Present, and Future

Description

Traditionally, the university or college is thought to be the ultimate location for the discovery and sharing of knowledge. After all, on these campuses are some of the great minds across all fields, as well as students who are not only eager to learn, but who often contribute to our shared wisdom. For those ideals to be achieved, however, ideas require access to some kind of virtual marketplace from which people can sample and consider them, discuss and debate them. Restricting the expression of those ideas for whatever reason is the enemy of not only this process, but also of knowledge discovery. Speech freedom on our college and university campuses, like everywhere else, is fragile. There are those who wish to suppress it, more often than not when the words express ideas, opinions, and even facts that conflict with their beliefs. Why is this effort, so completely at odds with the foundational values of this country, made? This topic explored in Speech Freedom on Campus: Past, Present and Future is multi-layered, and its analysis is best accomplished through multiple perspectives. Joseph Russomanno’s edited collection does precisely that, utilizing 10 different scholars to examine various aspects and issues related to speech freedom on campus. Dedication Contents Foreword ixErwin Chemerinsky Introduction • Joseph Russomanno 1 Free Speech on Campus: A Challenge of Our Times • Geoffrey R. Stone 2 The Holmesian Experiment and the Democratization of Truth in the Academy • Ronald K. L. Collins 3 Teaching and Preaching Free Speech • Rodney A. Smolla 4 Conservatism and Free Speech in Higher Education • Joe Dryden 5 Doing the Work: Defending Campus Speech Rights in the Culture War • Will Creeley 6 A Confluence on Campus • Joseph Russomanno 7 Beyond Free Speech Rhetoric: Framing Campus Free Speech Conflicts • Christina E. Wells 8 The Awful Ruling of Garcetti v. Ceballos and Its Application at the University Level • David L. Hudson, Jr. 9 Free Speech Values in the Classroom • Erica Goldberg 10 Managing the Peculiar Marketplace in the Face of Extremism • Brett G. Johnson and Jeremiah P. Fuzy Bibliography Index About the Contributors