Happy summer and welcome to the twenty-ninth installment of the Project on Civil Discourse’s Weekly News Digest, hosted on our Real Talk blog! Campus Speech Campus Reform released an article about the University of Louisiana – Lafayette’s updated free speech policy. The public university did so after the school’s chapter of Young Americans for Liberty advocated for […]
Civil Discourse and Civility
Weekly News Digest, No. 28
School Speech Associate Editor of Fox News Caleb Parke writes about a movement at the University of Texas at Austin that is threatening to dox incoming conservative students if they join conservative groups like Turning Point USA and Young Conservatives of Texas. Students leading the movement have compiled reports with conservative students’ phone numbers, addresses, […]
Weekly News Digest, No. 28
Happy summer and welcome to the twenty-seventh installment of the Project on Civil Discourse’s Weekly News Digest, hosted on our Real Talk blog. Campus Speech Richard Adams, education editor, writes about the UK policy that aims to prevent the recruitment of terrorism. According to Corey Stoughton, director of Liberty, the UK’s Prevent Strategy is the “biggest threat […]
Weekly News Digest, No. 27
Happy summer and welcome to the twenty-seventh installment of the Project on Civil Discourse’s Weekly News Digest, hosted on our Real Talk blog. Campus Speech and Discourse Scott Jaschik, editor and co-founder of Inside Higher Ed, authors an article about Pride month at the University of Central Arkansas. The university library had a sign that quoted Lady Gaga: […]
Weekly News Digest, No. 23
Welcome to the twenty-third installment of the Project on Civil Discourse’s Weekly News Digest, hosted on our Real Talk blog. Last week, the regular digest was replaced with a special edition focused on President Trump’s executive order on campus free speech. Last Monday, Kira Pyne wrote about her experiences studying abroad in Copenhagen and the […]
Asking to Understand: Having Productive Conversations Abroad
By Kira Pyne, AU SPA ’20 I have spent the past two months studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS), focusing on terrorism and counterterrorism from a European perspective. Classes at DIS focus on learning outside of the classroom, and my terrorism course took a week-long study tour around […]
Weekly News Digest, No. 22
Welcome to the twenty-second installment of the Project on Civil Discourse’s Weekly News Digest, hosted on our Real Talk blog. Student Discussions Are you interested in the role of political, social, and racial identity in speech? Do you want to talk with your peers about campus speech, civility, or post-truth conversations? The Project on Civil […]
Weekly News Digest, No. 20
Welcome to the twentieth installment of the Project on Civil Discourse’s Weekly News Digest, hosted on our Real Talk blog. Upcoming Events On Monday, March 4th, Floyd Abrams will participate in a Q&A session about the Supreme Court and free speech at the Washington College of Law. To RSVP, click here. On Wednesday, March 6th, […]
Weekly News Digest, No. 19
Welcome to the nineteenth installment of the Project on Civil Discourse’s Weekly News Digest, hosted on our Real Talk blog. Director Lara Schwartz and Daniel Ritter co-authored an article on civil discourse that appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of Academe. They discussed the importance of cultivating civil discourse in the classroom and outlined best […]
Student Journalism’s Voice in Campus Discourse is Vital
By Samantha McAllister, AU SIS ’21 Due to the current social climate, we are seeing attacks on media and journalism. As the death of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi fades from headlines, the necessary role that dedicated journalists play in how we as a society speak to each other is increasingly highlighted, or dismissed, by […]