Free Speech
Free Speech, initiated in response to the results of the 1996 Faculty Survey, is held during all Faculty Senate meetings. Meetings are open and all faculty are invited to participate in this agenda item. See our meeting schedule for date and location. Note that views presented during the “Free Speech” period are not necessarily those of the Clemson University Faculty Senate.
“Free Speech” Presentations
Open Forum
Open Forum provides a venue for any faculty member to exercise freedom of speech in an effort to uplift and improve Clemson University. All University faculty are invited to submit essays to be considered for Open Forum. Open Forum submissions should be submitted to senate@clemson.edu and are reviewed by the Open Forum editors. Open Forum editors are appointed annually by the Faculty Senate President. Although all essays have been reviewed by the editors of the Faculty Senate Open Forum, the published essays do not necessarily represent the views of the editors or the Clemson University Faculty Senate.
Open Forum Essays
2018
Matthew Saltzman
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
March 2018
“Admissions and Commitment”
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Bryan Denham
Department Chair, Communication
January 2018
“Executive Compensation and the University, Inc.”
2017
Sean Sather-Wagstaff, Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences
“Flier Recruiting for White Supremacist Organization”
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Jan Holmevik, 2017-2018 Faculty Senate Vice President/President-Elect
Amy Lawton-Rauh, 2017-2018 Faculty Senate President
“We Will Not Be Divided”
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Terry Walker, Professor of Biosystems Engineering, EEES
Dan Warner, Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Sciences
Kelly Flynn, Associate Coordinator IPM & Sustainable Agriculture Programs, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Caye Drapcho, Associate Professor of Biosystems Engineering, EEES
Rajendra Singh, D. Houser Banks Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and
Automotive Engineering
“A Case for a Resilient Future-Clemson at a Crossroad”
Amy Lawton-Rauh, Faculty Senate President 2017-2018
Jan R. Holmevik, Vice-President/President-Elect, Faculty Senate Vice President/President-Elect 2017-2018
Jennifer Ogle, Faculty Senate Secretary 2017-2018
Mary Beth Kurz, Faculty Manual Consultant 2017-present and Faculty Senate President 2016-2017
O. Thompson Mefford, Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees
Derek Wilmott, Chair of the Commission on Latino Affairs
Megan Che, President of the Clemson Chapter of the AAUP
Susanna Ashton, Vice President of Clemson Chapter of the AAUP
“Support for Those Impacted by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program“
2016
Bryan Denham
Department Chair, Communication
August 2016
“On Women’s Athletics at Clemson: University Sports Culture Needs to (Re)Evolve”
Mary Beth Kurz
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
Clemson University Faculty Senate President, 2016-2017
Faculty Senate’s ad hoc Committee on Diversity and Inclusion
Todd May – January 2016
Dept. Philosophy and Religion
The Administration of Vulnerability
2015
Brian A. Powell, Scott Brame, Michael Carbajales-Dale, Cindy Lee, Stephen M. Moysey, Lindsay Shuller-Nickles
Department of Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
Discussion of the pending split of the College of Engineering & Science
Jeremy King – July 2015
Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Sustainable Leadership, Historical Remembrance, and Transforming Community: Renaming Tillman Hall as a Substantive Element of 2020Forward
Jeremy King – July 2015
Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Erratum
Past Presidents of Faculty Senate – July 2015
We Have the Appetite to Rename Tillman Hall. Do You?
Leidy Klotz – February 2015
Professor of Civil Engineering
Please call it Old Main
2014
English Department – December 2014
Faculty Assessment
James McCubbin – March 2014
Professor of Psychology
Threats to Academic Freedom in South Carolina