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Exploring Free Expression & Academic Freedom
In these conversation guides to exploring free expression and academic freedom, you will find materials you can distribute, along with substantive conversation guides organized around specific themes. Each guide will include suggestions for substantive goals, timing, activities, and different kinds of discussion questions…
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Summer 2025
All is quiet at the CAT this summer while ZSR Library undergoes renovations, but check back in the Fall for exciting 2025-2026 academic year programming!
Teaching @WFU: A CAT Blog
- Making Sense of Neutrality
CAT Executive Director Betsy Barre recently appeared on the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast to discuss recent debates about political neutrality in the classroom. You can listen to the episode in the embedded player below or via your favorite podcast player. - Why Don’t Students Read?
CAT Executive Director Betsy Barre recently appeared on the Tea for Teaching podcast to discuss both longstanding and recent concerns about the amount of time college students spend reading outside of class […] - Holding Class While Holding Our Breath
Like many, I have vivid memories of my first presidential election. It was the year 2000, and I was voting in the crucial battleground state of Ohio. I was a conscientious student, but I was so distracted by the race that week, I put off starting a paper that was […]