Nearly 60 years ago, amid social turmoil in America, the president of the University of Chicago assembled a faculty committee to discuss and propose how UC should respond institutionally. The outcome, known widely as the Kalven Report, was named after Harry Kalven, Bigelow Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

From The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE): (Today) “As colleges are increasingly called upon to announce positions on social and political issues, the Kalven Report reminds us that they are not critics—they are “the home and sponsor of critics.” Read more here.

Read the Report on the University’s Role in Political and Social Action, “Kalven Report”