Category: Resources
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Jenny Martinez on Free Speech
On March 9th, 2023, students at Stanford disrupted a talk by Judge Kyle Duncan. In response, then Dean Jenny Martinez penned a detailed memo explaining Stanford Law’s commitment to free speech. In August 2023, Martinez became Stanford’s Provost.
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On Searle’s The Campus War
Having seen many references to John Searle’s 1971 book The Campus War, I got a copy from the Gardner and couldn’t put it down. It’s a fascinating, polemical, and often riotous internal-liberal critique of student movements and university governance. What struck me most is how clearly Searle explains the institutional logic of campus responses to…
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Policy on Academic Freedom (1970)
POLICY ON ACADEMIC FREEDOMApproved by The Regents on June 19, 1970Students who enroll on the campuses of the University of California are parties to a moral and contractualrelationship.in which the University, on its side, is obligated to provide quality education, to recognizestudent achievement with grades and degrees which have an accepted meaning for transfer to…