This comprehensive one-stop resource examines the history, development, and present state of affairs concerning free speech issues on college campuses, including fair and impartial representations of conservative and liberal perspectives. This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative resource for understanding the issue of free speech at American institutions of higher learning. It explains such concepts and forces as academic freedom, intellectual benefits of open debate, using speech as a weapon of hate and harassment, and the history of campus social protest. It also provides an impartial survey of the arguments and rhetoric-as well as the actual record-of America's two major parties on campus free speech and academic freedom issues. Other focuses of coverage include major laws and commonly employed college and university policies governing free speech and civil liberties for students, faculty, and other employees on campuses and classrooms across the country. This book accomplishes all of the above via a combination of informative resources-tables and graphs, primary documents, biographical profiles, illuminating essays, a chronology, and more-that are the trademark of the Contemporary World Issues series. Includes graphs, charts, and primary documents offering different contextual vantage points for understanding trends in different campus free speech issues Offers a strong selection of personal and scholarly perspectives Profiles influential individuals and organizations in campus free speech controversies and debates Identifies and explains key events, controversies, and other social and political contributors to debates raging over free speech and hate speech on campus

What started as a journey of brokenness, transformed one woman's walk with God.If we could see the true nature of who God is and could sit in His presence for even a short time, we could see there is no priority greater than our desperate need for Him. We would walk any desert to find Him. We would launch into any sea - no matter how rough it was - to be with Him. If He was a hurricane making landfall, we would find the highest coastal bluff to wait, so that we might dance in the wind of Him.Refiner's Fire is about finding that kind of passion for God. There are times when walking through the desert, launching into the stormy sea, or enduring the hurricane is what it takes to get our lives focused enough to hear the whisper of the Lord. Jerrie Price crafts a beautiful story that will sound familiar to many who have walked through the fiery furnace and come out on the other side closer to God than ever before. It is a story of how God seeks us out and how He sometimes breaks us down using trials to turn our hearts back to Him. You cannot read this book without examining your heart to see who you truly are. You'll see the heart of your Father and fall in love with Him all over again.Jerrie Price resides in Northwest Arkansas with her husband and their two children. She is an assistant principal at Siloam Springs High School in Siloam Springs, AR. Jerrie has been in education since 1995, serving as a teacher, coach, and administrator. She was built to teach, and it is truly her first love. Now, a passion for teaching physics and chemistry is slowly developing into a passion for teaching the Word of God. Jerrie plans to continue writing and speaking in hopes that God may open doors for full-time ministry. For more information, visit www.jerrieprice.com.