Faculty Senate, University Council, and Akron-AAUP  are co-sponsoring a lecture by Hans Joerg Tiede on Free Speech on Campus: Know Your Rights on April 10, from 3-5pm at the Student Union, Ballroom A. This presentation provides an overview of the concept of academic freedom, recent attacks on academic freedom, and how you can defend academic freedom.

Hans-Joerg Tiede is Senior Program Officer in the Department of Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Governance at the American Association of University Professors. He is the editor of Policy Documents and Reports (the AAUP “Redbook”) (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015) and author of University Reform: The Founding of the American Association of University Professors (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015).