Within the classroom, many faculty members have an expectation that the Chicago Principles protect their right to express controversial positions. However, when they step outside of the classroom, it is unclear whether those protections still apply.
Despite its institutional commitment to freedom of expression and inquiry, which relies on access to information, the University of Chicago has long operated under a shroud of secrecy relative to its peers.
At the event, Kalven questioned whether the Report’s principles on institutional neutrality represent a “living tradition” and emphasized the importance of the obligation clause.
What UChicago students, community organizations from Woodlawn and Hyde Park, and the UChicago Institute of Politics got up to as our city hosted the Democratic National Convention.
Missed the memo on UChicago student activism around the war in Gaza? Quickly catch up with this timeline of all the events in the past year and their historical contexts.
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