Assaultive Speech on Campus and Insufficient Campus Responses: Now It's Time for Meaningful Change

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The purpose of this interactive symposium is to (1) explore how campuses experience constraints to negotiate the space of an open, robust expression and inclusion, (2) examine the strategies and tactics that organized groups have taken to attack higher education’s equity and inclusion mission, and (3) outline, through an interactive discussion, future campus actions for scholarship, advocacy, and leadership development.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Law and Education

Chair

• Dwayne Kwaysee Wright, The George Washington University

Papers

• When Free Speech Turns Into Financed Ideology - Jeffrey C. Sun, University of Louisville

• A Critical Race Examination of Free Speech in U.S. Campus Communities: Words That (Still) Wound - LaWanda W. Ward, Pennsylvania State University

• Repressive Legalism: Understanding How the Legal Environment Undermines a Focus on Inclusion - Liliana M. Garces, University of Texas at Austin

• Student Activism and Disrupting the Status Quo - Karen L. Miksch, University of Minnesota