Note: As we approach commencement season at our institutions of higher education, the world seems filled with speakers and writers offering their best advice to the newly minted graduates. However, perhaps it is not the graduates who are most in need of a pep talk.
Free Inquiry and Expression: From Principles to Educational Practice
Hundreds of colleges and universities have adopted free expression and institutional speech documents from the University of Chicago. In 1899, the University of Chicago faculty unanimously resolved that complete freedom
Leila Brammer
September 7, 2026
