Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2006
Publication Title
Communication Law and Policy
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15326926clp1102_4
Additional Publication URL
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15326926clp1102_4#.VS_psJMsBhY
Abstract
Once described as a quintessential marketplace of ideas by the Supreme Court of the United States, the academic marketplace has been criticized recently for institutionalizing a left-leaning ideology within its curriculum and academic discourse. As a result, national activists and organizations have been calling on state legislatures and university administrators to adopt policies and report on steps taken to encourage intellectual diversity and protect political and cultural minorities from faculty bias and academic retribution in the classroom and other university settings. But who would win a constitutional showdown between the academy and those seeking to infuse academic discourse with alternative viewpoints? Based on an analysis of the First Amendment concerns at stake in this ongoing controversy, this article concludes that university administrators should have the upper hand in such a constitutional challenge given the specific characteristics and selective nature of the academic marketplace.
Rights
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in COMMUNICATION LAW AND POLICY on June 8, 2010, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1207/s15326926clp1102_4.
Recommended Citation
Whitmore, N. ““Vicarious Liability and the Private University Student Press,” Communication Law and Policy, Vol. 11, No. 2 Available from: http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ccom_papers/7 (Spring 2006).
