“There are best practices all over. There are organizations working with you, including leadership development with the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, to shine a bright light on examples of critical inquiry and civil discourse on campuses.”
-Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, along with representatives from every public university in the Commonwealth and more than half of its private colleges, gathered at the University of Virginia on November 28, 2023 for the Higher Education Summit on Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity. Attendees shared ideas on how to support free speech and intellectual diversity on their respective campuses.
During the daylong event, Citizens & Scholars President Rajiv Vinnakota was also a panelist alongside representatives from the Constructive Dialogue Institute and the Heterodox Academy. The group spoke about efforts to promote dialogue and debate at other institutions.
Governor Youngkin encouraged higher education leaders to develop plans to protect free speech and viewpoint diversity more fully on their campuses. The drafts of those plans will be sent to the state’s secretary of education by March 1, 2024.
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