In Defense of Academic Freedom and the First Amendment

FLEX credit available

AFT Guild, Local 1931

presents

In Defense of Academic Freedom and the First Amendment

When?:  Friday, 22 August 2008

10:30A – 1:30P

1:30P

Where?: San Diego Mesa College, LRC 435

Presenters include:

Erwin Chemerinsky

(Dean of the new UC Irvine Law School, First Amendment scholar, trial lawyer)

Marty Hittelman

(President, California Federation of Teachers)

Constance Carroll

(SDCCD Chancellor)

Judith Michaels

(CFT Legislative Director)

Chris Goff

(AFT Higher Ed Div./Free Exchange on Campus)

Hon. Christine Kehoe

(California State Senator)

(tentative)

Audience participation

The forum will introduce the new AFT Policy Paper, “Academic Freedom in the 21st-Century College and University;” inform the audience about the Academic Freedom principles and First Amendment rights; and address the prospect of legislated restraints on faculty through ideological litmus tests and quotas.

Complimentary light refreshments