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NEW YORK\u2014On Monday, October 17, PEN America will release the groundbreaking new report “And Campus for All: Diversity, Inclusion, and Free Speech at U.S. Universities”, which examines the future of free speech in American higher education. To encourage and support informed media coverage of this important issue, PEN America will offer student journalists privileged access to cover the release with a conference call briefing on the report and the related free speech issues at 5:00pm on October 17, featuring a Q&A with PEN America Executive Director Suzanne Nossel and award-winning journalist EJ Graff, the lead investigator for the report.<\/p>\n
And Campus for All combines extensive reporting and thorough analysis of all sides of recent debates, as well as three case studies informed by exclusive interviews with protagonists in some of the most pitched campus battles in recent years: skirmishes over free speech and issues of race at Yale, conflict surrounding activism on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at UCLA, and controversies over the implications for free speech of specific provisions of Title IX\u2014the law that bars sex discrimination at educational institutions\u2014at Northwestern University. Coming from the American arm of the world\u2019s leading free expression organization, the incorporated \u201cPEN America Principles on Campus Speech\u201d stand to shape the direction of these raging debates nationally. The PEN America Principles offer a way to address some of the most polarizing campus unrest in decades over issues such as sexist speech, racial epithets, controversial campus speakers, trigger warnings, and so-called \u201csafe spaces\u201d and \u201cmicroaggressions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Participants in the briefing call will be eligible to apply for financial support to attend a follow-up closed-door symposium with 30 prominent figures involved in campus free speech controversies at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on November 17-18, 2016.<\/p>\n
WHO: PEN America Executive Director Suzanne Nossel and Journalist EJ Graff<\/p>\n
WHAT: Student journalist briefing call for new report “And Campus for All: Diversity, Inclusion, and Freedom of Speech at U.S. Universities”<\/p>\n
WHEN: Monday, October 17, 2016, 5:00pm<\/p>\n
WHERE: Conference call dial-in will be provided upon registration<\/p>\n
WHY: Amid concerns that recent campus controversies may lead a rising generation to grow alienated from core American values of free speech, PEN America will release on Monday the \u201cPEN America Principles on Campus Speech\u201d to help guide university students, faculty, and administrators to advance inclusion and equality while safeguarding intellectual and academic freedom.
\nJournalists who wish to join the conference call must register here. An embargoed copy of the report and dial-in number for the conference call will be provided to all those who register.<\/p>\n
PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the United States and worldwide. We champion the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world. Our mission is to unite writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible.\u00a0PEN.org<\/a><\/p>\n U WIRE NEW YORK\u2014On Monday, October 17, PEN America will release the groundbreaking new report “And Campus for All: Diversity, Inclusion, and Free Speech at… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Student Briefing: Diversity, Inclusion, and Free Speech at U.S. Colleges","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3398],"tags":[10474,106,10473,103],"class_list":["post-29013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-and-campus-for-all-diversity-inclusion-and-free-speech-at-u-s-universities","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-pen-america","tag-tiger-media-network"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29013"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29017,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29013\/revisions\/29017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"