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