Public Policy Professor Emeritus George La Noue recently published a new book, Silenced Stages, about academic freedom and the impacts of limiting campus discourse for policy debates.
Join him at the Bipartisan Policy Center on July 30 for a breakfast conversation and book discussion.
July 30, 2019 from 8:00 am to 9:30 am EDT
Bipartisan Policy Center
1225 Eye St NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC, 20005
"Disinvitations, protests, and speech codes make headlines, but just as important is the chilling of campus discourse to the point some views and arguments are not brought forward at all. What is left out of campus debates may be more worrisome than the overt suppression of speech.
These are issues George R. La Noue takes up in his just-released book, Silenced Stages: The Loss of Academic Freedom and Campus Policy Debates. Professor La Noue researched nearly 100 campuses and found that, on far too many campuses, some ideas are deemed too unorthodox for open discussion and some speakers are judged too controversial to be invited. This limiting of campus discourse prevents students from fully testing their deepest convictions and learning from arguments across the spectrum of ideas.
Please join us for a breakfast conversation with Professor George R. La Noue and distinguished higher education experts about his findings and recommendations that college leaders, higher education donors, and students can take to invigorate open campus discussion."
Featuring:
Fred Fransen
Co-Founder, DonorAdvising
George R. La Noue
Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Jenna A. Robinson
President, James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
Moderated by:
Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill
Director, Campus Free Expression Project, BPC
