Higher education legal expert Dr. Jim Castagnera will explain how to accommodate divergent ideas while keeping your campus safe. You will learn techniques to balance First Amendment rights with individual protections that you can use immediately.
What You'll Learn
- May students protest controversial issues? How should you contain them?
- Must you allow all outside speakers, no matter how controversial?
- How can you balance decorum and freedom on your campus?
- What types of speech does the First Amendment cover? Are there exceptions?
Training Overview
Your 2022–23 Campus Speakers: Too controversial?
This academic year, colleges and universities across the nation have already hosted controversial speakers, faced student protests, and struggled to create climates that welcome conflicting views without creating conflict. Protecting students from hate while adhering to laws permitting free speech is a duty all institutions must fulfill.
You need to balance First Amendment rights with the need to maintain civil dialogue on campus. To accomplish this, you must understand the latest case law and government expectations.
- May students protest controversial issues? How should you contain them?
- Must you allow all outside speakers, no matter how controversial?
- How can you balance decorum and freedom on your campus?
- What types of speech does the First Amendment cover? Are there exceptions?
Learn answers to our questions and more during our upcoming webinar.
Who Should Attend?
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Expert Presenter
Dr. Jim Castagnera
- Served for 23 years as associate provost and legal counsel for academic affairs at Rider University, where he received the university’s highest annual award for distinguished service
- Adjunct Professor of Law in the Kline School of Law at Drexel University
- President of Dr. Jim’s One-Stop HR Shop, a full-service HR law and compliance company
- Partner with Portum Group International LLC, a data-privacy and compliance-consulting firm
- Of Counsel to WIBC Law, a business-law boutique
- Arbitrator for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Taught at UT-Austin and Widener University Law School as a full-time law professor
- Previously worked as a labor, employment, and intellectual-property attorney with Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr
- M.A. in Journalism from Kent State University
- J.D. and Ph.D. (American Studies) from Case Western Reserve University
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