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Dear UC Davis Faculty, Staff, Students and Community Members,
We would like to remind you that the next event in the Provost’s Forums on the Public University and the Social Good, which is co-sponsored with the Academic Senate’s Committee on Academic Freedom and responsibility, will be held on Friday, March 14, 2014.
Robert Post, Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Yale Law
School will speak on the topic of “The Constitutional Dimensions of
Academic Freedom”. After his talk, he will be joined by a panel
comprised of Ralph Hexter, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor at UC
Davis, Roberta Rehm, Associate Professor in the Department of Family
Health Care Nursing at UC San Francisco, and Henry Reichman, Professor
Emeritus of History at CSU Easy Bay and First Vice President of the
AAUP and its Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure.Prior to assuming his position as Dean of the Yale Law School, Dean
Post spent twenty years as a professor at the UC Berkeley School of
Law. His areas of expertise include constitutional law, First
Amendment law, legal history, and equal protection. He has written and
edited numerous books, including, For the Common Good: Principles of
American Academic Freedom (2009), and more recently Democracy,
Expertise, Academic Freedom: A First Amendment Jurisprudence for the
Modern State (2012).The event will begin at 2 p.m. in the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre at
the UC Davis RobertMondavi Center. It is free and open to the general public. There will
be a reception with light refreshments directly following the lecture
in the Yoche Dehe Grand Lobby of the Mondavi Center.
If you are unable to attend this event, videos of all Provost’s Forums
lectures are available to the public and can be found on the official
Provost’s Forums website
(http://provost.ucdavis.edu/initiatives-and-activities/activities/future/past-events.html).
Our most recent lecture, “The Public University: What Should We Be
Doing on Climate Change?” featuring Professor Naomi Oreskes, is now
available for viewing along with all of the 2013-2014 season lectures.For more details and information on this event, please see the
attached flyer, visit our website: The Provost’s Forum on the Public
University and the Social Good (http://provost.ucdavis.edu/initiatives-and-activities/activities/future/index.html), or contact Casey Castaldi (cvcastaldi@ucdavis.edu).
In addition, please forward this information to any interested parties, as all events are open to the public. We hope to see you at this important event!
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