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FIRE Speakers at 2014 AAUP Conference
FIRE’s Director of Legal and Public Advocacy, Will Creeley, and Director of FIRE’s Individual Rights Defense Program, Peter Bonilla, will be speaking tomorrow at the 2014 American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Conference. Their presentation will cover the current campus climate for academic freedom, and they’ll discuss FIRE’s work defending professors’ academic freedom and free speech rights. If you are planning on attending the AAUP conference, be sure to check out their presentation at 10 a.m. tomorrow!
See the rest of the conference program here.
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