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Public Forum 2.1: Public Higher Education Institutions And Social Media, Robert H. Jerry Ii, Lyrissa Lidsky

Faculty Publications

Public colleges and universities increasingly are using Facebook, Second Life, YouTube, Twitter, and other social media communications tools. Yet public colleges and universities are government actors, and their creation and maintenance of social media sites or forums create difficult constitutional and administrative challenges. Our separate experiences, both theoretical and practical, have convinced us of the value of providing guidance for public higher education institutions wishing to engage with their constituents-including prospective, current, and former students and many others-through social media.

Together, we seek to guide public university officials through the complex body of law governing their social media use and …

Into The Tangled Web: K-12 Educators, Free Speech Rights, And Social Media, John David Andrews

Theses and Dissertations

Much attention has recently been given to K-12 educators and their use of social media. This quantitative study surveyed a targeted sample (n = 543) of known social media users to learn about K-12 educators’ use of social media, their legal knowledge of the First Amendment as it relates to free speech and education, and their dispositions toward the First Amendment. Survey respondents self-reported levels of social media use, completed a legal knowledge section, and responded to a series of items used to gauge their disposition toward the First Amendment. These were analyzed through various demographic and contextual factors in …

State Of First Amendment' Panel Discussion At Dominican, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

The panel included first amendment attorneys David Greene and Peter Scheer, KQED newscaster Joshua Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Bob Egelko, and first amendment advocates Mickey Huff and Steve O’Donoghue.

Dominican Receives First Amendment Grant, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

1 for All and its campus effort, The Liberty Tree Initiative, were founded in partnership with the American Society of News Editors, the Knight Foundation, the McCormick Foundation, the First Amendment Center, and the Newseum.