<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:11pt">Join Project Censored, the Park Center for Independent Media, and the Illinois Conference of the American Association of University Professors for a free Constitution Day webinar on academic freedom and the
current crisis in higher education on <b>Thursay, September 17, 4-5pm <span style="background:yellow">
ET</span>. Use the <span style="background:yellow">following zoom link to join: </span></b><span style="background:yellow"><a href="https://v8k6.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=68bf75e6f385ec4d24233ce8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fzoom.us%2Fj%2F94194942144&w=5fd5700c674bc6778f3ffce4&c=b_68bb608f3c09c51cf6575de7&e=2025-09-10T00%3A33%3A53.228409899Z&l=en-US&s=J2ygcRnrJFMpDNUtdO2GbI8F2NY%3D" target="_blank"><b>https://zoom.us/j/94194942144</b></a></span></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Panelists include <b>Tom Ginsburg</b> of the University of Chicago and <b>Sarah McLaughlin</b> of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) for this Constitution Day discussion about the constitutionality
of government restraints on higher education in the US. Tom Ginsburg is the Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law at the University of Chicago, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, Professor of Political Science, Faculty Director,
Malyi Center for the Study of Institutional and Legal Integrity, and Faculty Director, Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression. Sarah McLaughlin is a senior scholar of global expression at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), and the author
of <a href="https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53835/authoritarians-academy" target="_blank">Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech</a> (Johns Hopkins University Press,
August 19, 2025)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">The event will be moderated by <b>John K. Wilson</b>, <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/debatable-ideas" target="_blank">columnist</a> for
<i>Inside Higher Ed</i> and the author of eight books, including <i>Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies. </i>The event will be introduced and hosted by <b>Mickey Huff</b>, director of <a href="https://www.projectcensored.org/" target="_blank">Project
Censored</a>, president of the Media Freedom Foundation, Distinguished Director of the <a href="https://www.ithaca.edu/academics/roy-h-park-school-communications/park-center-independent-media" target="_blank">Park Center for Independent Media</a> and Professor
of Journalism at Ithaca College. Huff will also assist the Q&A portion of this online event and has hosted Constitution Day events on college campuses for more than a decade.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Sponsored by the <a href="https://ilaaup.org/" target="_blank">Illinois conference of the American Association of University Professors</a> (AAUP), <a href="https://www.projectcensored.org/" target="_blank">Project
Censored</a>, and the <a href="https://www.ithaca.edu/academics/roy-h-park-school-communications/park-center-independent-media" target="_blank">Park Center for Independent Media</a> at Ithaca College.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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