90-minute recording of live online seminar available in CD or transcript format. Includes program handouts.

By participating in this seminar, you'll learn:
• How the courts and professional associations define academic freedom
• The origins of “student” academic freedom
• How the courts balance competing claims to academic freedom
• The limits on academic freedom inside and outside the classroom
• Alternatives to punishment or censorship when confronting offensive or insensitive expression

Meet the presenter:
Gary Pavela teaches in the honors program at the University of Maryland and writes law and policy newsletters to which over 1,000 colleges and universities in North America subscribe. He was a law clerk to Judge Alfred P. Murrah of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, a faculty member for the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, DC (the training arm of the United States Courts), and a staff attorney for the State University of New York, Central Administration. He has been a fellow at the University of Wisconsin Center for Behavioral Science and Law, taught at Colgate University, and serves on the Board of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.

Identified by the New York Times as an “authority on academic ethics,” Gary Pavela has been a consultant on law and policy issues at many leading universities, including Stanford University, the University of Michigan, The University of California at San Diego, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Rutgers University, Georgetown University, The United States Naval Academy, Lehigh University, Brown University, Colgate University, Vassar College, and Smith College, among many others.

In 2002 Gary was designated a fellow of the National Association of College and University Attorneys. NACUA fellows are identified as individuals who have “brought distinction to higher education and to the practice of law on behalf of colleges and universities across the nation.” In 2005 he received the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators’ “Outstanding Contribution to Literature and Research” award. In 2006 he was designated the University of Maryland “Outstanding Faculty Educator” by the Maryland Parents' Association.

The CD contains an audio presentation with PowerPoint and can be viewed on any standard computer equipped with Windows Media Player.

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