Free Speech on Campus

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by Martin P. Golding

Rowman and Littlefield

Due/Published April 2000, 128 pages, paper

ISBN 0847687929

If the university had a constitution, would it contain a free speech provision as the U.S. Constitution does? Golding confronts this question, examining issues of principle in the debate over campus speech. He suggests that the University is a special social institution that has as its goal the dissemination and advancement of knowledge, and he explores some of the implications of this approach, including its implication for faculty hiring. Golding examines the claim that there are academic orthodoxies in the University that inhibit the introduction of new ideas and methods, and he critically discusses in detail arguments that have been advanced for campus speech codes.