At a special meeting of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this morning, I delivered these remarks following a vote on a motion proposed by Professor Franz Ulm. A slightly longer, written version of my statement can be found here.
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“Neutrality, Diversity, and the University: The Making of the Kalven Report”
Here is the recording of an MIT Dialogue across Difference on the Kalven Report and the issue of institutional neutrality that I did on October 26, 2023 in conversation with Tracie Jones-Barrett.
A Better Way to Protect Free Speech on Campus
Taking the liberty of sharing MIT’s new Statement on Free Expression and Academic Freedom as well as my essay for the Chronicle of Higher Education on the campus free expression debate and the movement to adopt the Chicago Principles. Thank you to Leila Govi for her helpful suggestions on the essay, as well as to my friends on the MIT Ad Hoc Working Group on Free Expression who taught me most of what I know about this subject.