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From: Pedro Domingos <pedrod@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 4:29 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Fwd: Students for Free Expression
To: Researchers <researchers@cs.washington.edu>, cs-grads – Mailing List <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>
Cc: Pedro Domingos <pedrod@cs.washington.edu>
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From: Matthew Foldi <matthewfoldi@uchicago.edu>
Date: Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 6:00 AM
Subject: Students for Free Expression
To: Matthew Foldi <matthewfoldi@uchicago.edu>
Dear members of the Heterodox Academy,
A few months ago, the University of Chicago hosted the first ever student-run conference on free expression that I was fortunate enough to help plan with our administration. During the course of the conference, the students from 14 schools in attendance wrote a Statement of Principles (link here) for students, professors, and alumni to sign to support free expression at a time where doing so could not be more critical in both academia and society at large.
In the months since then, we started Students for Free Expression, a nonpartisan group of students who care deeply about this issue, and we have been working on campuses around the country to recruit students who support our belief that free expression is a value in and of itself, and over 1,100 students and professors from around the world that have signed onto our Statement.
In the upcoming academic year, we plan to have students on campuses across the country work to get signatures from their campus communities (including professors) and then have their student governments sign our Statement and then meet with their administrations to have them advance policies conducive to greater free expression on campus.
To that end, we already have over 40 students at over 30 campuses across the country who are already working on their campuses to increase awareness of and support for free expression.
All of you have publicly expressed your support for the principles of Heterodox Academy and we wanted to let you know that you are not alone! We’d love to have you attach your names to our Statement, but we’d also love for you to let students on your campuses know about this way to express their support for these values. The link to our Statement is simply tinyurl.com/freeexpression.
We’re planning on making a lot of progress this upcoming academic year, from student governments to campus administrations, and I wanted to, above all else, let all of you know that you’re not alone in this fight!
By all means, please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions and suggestions for how to make our efforts more successful and impactful. Thank you all for your staunch support for academic freedom and viewpoint diversity on campuses from around the world; you are far from alone in this!
My best,
Matthew Foldi
University of Chicago, 2018
PS: Here are the schools where we already have student representatives preparing for the upcoming year!
American
Amherst
Brooklyn College
Brown
Carson-Newman
Cornell
Columbia
Dartmouth
DePaul
Duke
George Washington
Georgetown
Grand Valley State
Hampshire
Hofstra
McLean High School
Middlebury
Mount Holyoke
NYU
Oberlin
Rice
Smith
UAM Xochimilco
UChicago
UMass Amherst
University of Illinois
UNC Chapel Hill
University of Maryland
University of Michigan
Yale
York College