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How should universities protect students' Free Speech rights to protest while maintaining order on campus and defending the educational and research process? What can be done to foster reasonable and civil discussion around issues that provoke deep and tense disagreements without total disruption of campuses?
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Mike Lee, Executive Director, ACLU Pennsylvania
Hilary Link, President, Drew University
Shannon Rooney, Vice President for Enrollment Management & Strategic Communications, Community College of Philadelphia
Harris Sokoloff, Co-founder and Co-director, PA Project for Civic Engagement and the Can We Talk Initiative, Committee of Seventy
Director, Center for School Study Councils, University of Pennsylvania
Sanford J. Ungar (moderator), Director, Free Speech Project, Georgetown University
Recorded on Oct. 15, 2025, as part of "Free Speech at the Crossroads: A Keystone Dialogue," a convening of discussions on challenges to Free Speech and other First Amendment freedoms at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the birthplace of American democracy.
How should universities protect students' Free Speech rights to protest while maintaining order on campus and defending the educational and research process? What can be done to foster reasonable and civil discussion around issues that provoke deep and tense disagreements without total disruption of campuses?
Featured:
Mike Lee, Executive Director, ACLU Pennsylvania
Hilary Link, President, Drew University
Shannon Rooney, Vice President for Enrollment Management & Strategic Communications, Community College of Philadelphia
Harris Sokoloff, Co-founder and Co-director, PA Project for Civic Engagement and the Can We Talk Initiative, Committee of Seventy
Director, Center for School Study Councils, University of Pennsylvania
Sanford J. Ungar (moderator), Director, Free Speech Project, Georgetown University
Recorded on Oct. 15, 2025, as part of "Free Speech at the Crossroads: A Keystone Dialogue," a convening of discussions on challenges to Free Speech and other First Amendment freedoms at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the birthplace of American democracy.
