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Longwood Board adopts resolution affirming public higher education's civic purpose
Summary
The Longwood University Board of Visitors unanimously adopted a resolution reaffirming the role of public higher education in defending free inquiry, academic freedom, and civic education, presenting it as a guiding statement for university policy.
The Longwood University Board of Visitors unanimously adopted a resolution on June 5 affirming the university’s role in defending free inquiry, academic freedom, and civic education.
Board member Brian Schmalzbach presented the resolution, saying it was prepared with the counsel of "leading jurists of the Commonwealth and scholars of the Constitution," and moved its adoption; Vice Rector Jeff Nottingham seconded and the motion passed unanimously. The text states, in part, that "this University shall defend, with the utmost integrity, the right of students and faculty alike to speak, to dissent, to question, and to explore."
