Robert Zimmer, who as president of the University of Chicago reshaped debates over ideological openness on campuses by reaffirming a free-speech code that was adopted by dozens of other institutions, died at his home in Chicago. He was 75.
against the Vietnam War. The new text restated the need to keep the university open to all speakers and political and cultural points of view.“Concerns about civility and mutual respect can never be used as a justification for closing off discussion of ideas, however offensive or disagreeable those ideas may be to some members of our community,” wrote a faculty committee in 2014 created by Dr. Zimmer to help draft the document.
Yet Dr. Zimmer faced backlash from some scholars and student groups over the broad-brush approach of the Chicago Principles, which offers no clear guidance on what constitutes hate speech and appears hostile to campusLetters sent to incoming first-year students at the University of Chicago have included a synopsis of the codes set under Dr.
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