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Ivy League university moves to prioritize 'free expression' months after students heckled conservative pundit
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Cornell University unveiled plans to use 'free expression and academic freedom' as its theme for the 2023-2024 year on Friday, following student pushes to censor conservatives.
Cornell President Martha E. Pollack is expected to announce the theme, encouraging students to "engage with these ideas, and in civil discourse about them, through a wide range of scholarly and creative events and activities, from lectures to community book reads to artistic exhibitions and performances," according to Friday's announcement. Taylor Penley is a production assistant with Fox News.
Pollack called the initiative "critical," per the report, arguing that the university's must focus on its mission to "think deeply about freedom of expression and the challenges that result from assaults on it, which today come from both ends of the political spectrum."