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Sunday, April 26, 2020

New Free Speech Fellows

The University of California’s National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement announced a new class of fellows today, continuing its critical work to help educational institutions and communities foster and protect free speech and civic engagement. The 10 projects, selected from among a highly competitive pool, represent students, professors, law enforcement, policymakers and senior administrators—all of whom are tackling challenging and timely issues pertaining to expression, academic freedom and campus life.
"Our third class of fellows is pursuing critical issues shaping the national conversation around expression and civic engagement,” said Michelle Deutchman, the Center’s executive director. “Their projects will contribute to a rich legacy of research, insight and expertise on free speech in higher education; we are proud to welcome them to the Center.”

Over the course of a year, the fellows will research complex topics such as student activism, student leader information networks, targeted harassment of faculty and the relationship between students and campus law enforcement. Their projects will include developing educational materials and programs that can serve as a roadmap to safeguarding and encouraging the free exchange of ideas while simultaneously ensuring the institutional values of equity and inclusion. Each fellow will spend time on one of the 10 UC campuses to dialogue with students, faculty, administrators and others to inform their ongoing work.

The Center’s 2020-2021 fellows are:
Ernesto Arciniega, UCLA Hispanic Literatures PhD student
- "Lighting the Way for Undocumented Students at the UC: Empowerment, Campus Policies, Free Speech and Civic Engagement”
 
Cerri Banks, Dean of Students and Vice President for Student Affairs, Skidmore College
- "Black Administrators and Black Student Activism - Media’s Impact on Navigating Relationships and Transforming Learning”

Cassie Barnhardt, Associate Professor, Educational Policy and Leadership Studies, University of Iowa, College of Education
- "Comparing Contemporary Campus Mobilization at Scale: Tactics, Intensity, and Media Attention”
 
Ryan Coonerty, Third District Supervisor for Santa Cruz County, California
- "Skokie: Free Speech and Community”
 
Jill Dunlap, Director for Research and Practice at NASPA – National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, and Alice Yau, Police Officer-Instructor-Trainer, Chicago Police Department 
- "Coming Together: Student and Law Enforcement Understanding of Campus Free Speech Policies and Procedures”
 
Nina Flores, Assistant Professor, Social and Cultural Analysis of Education, College of Education, California State University Long Beach
- "Tweets, Threats, and Censorship: Campus Resources to Support Faculty Through Incidents of Targeted Harassment”

Nicholas Havey, UCLA Higher Education and Organizational Change PhD student
- "Are Campuses Echo Chambers? Exploring the Information Networks of Student Leaders”

Jennifer Lambe, Associate Professor, Communication, University of Delaware
- "Best Practices for Balancing Free Speech and Diversity in Higher Education”

Elizabeth Niehaus, Associate Professor, Educational Administration, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
- "Self-Censorship or Just Being Nice? Understanding College Students’ Moral Reasoning around Free Speech in the Classroom”
 
Brian Soucek, Professor of Law, University of California, Davis
- "Institutional Values, Academic Freedom, and the First Amendment”


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Note: More details about the individual projects can be found at: 

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