#SpeechMatters: The Future of Free Expression on Campus

University of California’s National Center for
Free Speech and Civic Engagement

In the midst of an unprecedented level of controversy and activism on college campuses across the United States, the University of California Irvine (UCI) created the National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement (the Center) to serve as a leading researcher and facilitator of critical free speech issues. Recognizing the need for thoughtful, constructive dialogue around the First Amendment and its impact on campus, the press, the Internet and beyond, the Center enlisted the Glen Echo Group to brand, organize, publicize and execute its inaugural conference on Free Speech on Campus in the spring of 2019.