Open Letter to College and University Presidents on Student Protests
Academic freedom and free speech are essential. Universities must protect them.
- Schools must not single out particular viewpoints for censorship, discipline, or disproportionate punishment
- Schools must protect students from discriminatory harassment and violence
- Schools can announce and enforce reasonable content-neutral protest policies but they must leave ample room for students to express themselves
- Schools must recognize that armed police on campus can endanger students and are a measure of last resort
- Schools must resist the pressures placed on them by politicians seeking to exploit campus tensions
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