special thanks for dean guterman for being so supportive. for their cosponsors it, and particularly to my colleague darcy. finally, i extend a special community and ssa others of you in attendance tonight. the success in this dialogue and our exemplary practice of free expressions might deeply rests with each of you, and i will explain that more in a moment. we will proceed by my giving a brief introduction to this panel. then i will introduce each of the panelists. they will each talk for about ten minutes. i will then pose a question to them. we probably won't -- i have given them four questions. i think that is a bit ambitious, we will probably get through one or two. then i will us to this evening's informal event which will involve an informal dialogue amongst all of us. so, a bit of a social experiment is to come. so in 1915, the american association of university of professors advanced a declaration of principles that laid the foundation for much of today's legal and tacit understanding of academic freedom and tenure within institutio

for those of you who don't know me i'm neil guterman, the dean of the school of social service administration here at the university of chicago and i want to thank you for joining us for this evenings event. american universities have long been unique institutions that generate novel sometimes controversial and even classic ideas that will challenge and sometimes press popular wisdom bringing to bear deeper more rigorous analyses of evidence. such ideas can at times you'll advances or even breakthroughs of the most vexing questions and problems of our day. one of the most indispensable pillars in higher education, which makes such advanced wholly possible, is a cardinal principle and practice of academic freedom, the protection and the unfettered pursuit of ideas, concepts, evidence and knowledge, and the passing on of such in our education students. while the principle of academic freedom is a central freedom of american education, the university of chicago has a rather distinctive and deeply held approach to academic freedom, a which i'm sure you'll be hearing more about this evening from s

for those of you who don't know me i'm neil guterman, the dean of the school of social service administration here at the university of chicago and i want to thank you for joining us for this evenings