Chief academic officers are guardians of academic freedom at a time when this essential academic value is under intense stress. Chief academic officers must bolster campus stakeholder understanding of what faculty academic freedom protects—and what it doesn’t. They must ensure campus academic freedom policies are up-to-date and consistently enforced at the dean and department level. They must support the president in building board support for academic freedom and in responding to state and federal pressures on academic freedom.Join this session to hear from David Rabban, a national expert on academic freedom. Bring your questions and leave with ideas and strategies to uphold faculty academic freedom, institutional academic freedom, and institutional autonomy.
David Rabban, Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail, and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair in Law, University of Texas at Austin School of Law
Moderator: Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill, Senior Director of Civic Learning and Free Expression Projects, Council of Independent Colleges