{"id":33056,"date":"2024-11-26T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T22:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=33056"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:00:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T22:00:40","slug":"podcast-on-free-speech-democracy-and-campus-discourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=33056","title":{"rendered":"podcast on free Speech, democracy, and campus discourse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enrollify.org\/episodes\/pulse-check-reclaiming-free-speech-democracy-and-discourse-on-campus-pt-3\">episode<\/a> of\u00a0Pulse Check, entitled <em>Reclaiming Free Speech, Democracy, and Discourse on Campus: A Post-2024 Election America<\/em>, I was interviewed by Dr. J. Cody Nielsen. Recorded just days after the 2024 U.S. presidential election, our discussion addressed the election&#8217;s implications for higher education, democracy, and meaningful dialogue and civic engagement on college campuses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key Takeaways (as summarized by the podcast organizers)<\/strong>:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Shifts in Youth Engagement:<\/strong>\u00a0While youth voter turnout has improved [since the early 2000s], today\u2019s students are more critical of social media\u2019s role in public discourse and democracy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Role of Higher Education:<\/strong>\u00a0Colleges are pivotal in teaching nonviolence, civic history, and bridging ideological divides while navigating heightened polarization.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Practical Civic Education:<\/strong>\u00a0Institutions must focus on actionable outcomes, like developing research-based initiatives on civic issues rather than performative statements.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Opportunities Amid Challenges:<\/strong>\u00a0Despite political instability, fostering consensus in civic education and equipping students with tools for nonviolent activism is essential.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Resilience and Positionality:<\/strong>\u00a0Faculty and administrators, especially those with privilege, must stand up for civic democracy and support those most vulnerable to harm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=32917\">building power for resisting authoritarianism<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=31978\">strategizing for civil resistance in defense of democracy<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=33045\">countering selective harassment in the Trump Administration<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=17618\">time for civil courage<\/a> (2016)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of\u00a0Pulse Check, entitled Reclaiming Free Speech, Democracy, and Discourse on Campus: A Post-2024 Election America, I was interviewed by Dr. J. Cody Nielsen. Recorded just days after the 2024 U.S. presidential election, our discussion addressed the election&#8217;s implications for higher education, democracy, and meaningful dialogue and civic engagement on college campuses. Key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academia","category-audio-and-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33058,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33056\/revisions\/33058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}