Free Speech and Higher Education, Part 2

More words of my badly written sh*tty first draft that you probably shouldn’t even be reading

L.D. Burnett
11 min readMar 17, 2022
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Not sure what is misfiring in my writerly brain, but my current drastic re-set / fix involves just publishing my random thougths in no particular order without revision. This is the stage of writing I call “puke on a page,” and no one ever sees this stage of the process. But desperate times…

Anyway, if you want to read part 1 (why?), you can find it here:

Okay, as I was saying…

Free Speech Outside the Classroom Walls

The principles of academic freedom (defined by the American Association of University Professors—something I should mention in this talk!) do address the issue of “extramural speech”—speech outside the walls of the classroom, but also, in a more figurative sense, outside the walls of the campus. Extramural speech is speech that falls outside the official duties of a professor—views you express off the clock, on your own time, not in your capacity…

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L.D. Burnett
L.D. Burnett

Written by L.D. Burnett

Writer and historian from / in California’s Great Central Valley. Book, “Western Civilization: The History of an American Idea,” under contract w/ UNC Press.

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