{"id":2981,"date":"2026-01-23T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2026-04-30T18:44:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:44:44","slug":"spring-2026-free-speech-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/spring-2026-free-speech-center\/","title":{"rendered":"SPRING 2026 FREE SPEECH CENTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<p>The Free Speech Center at MTSU is a nonpartisan, nonprofit public policy center dedicated to building understanding of the five freedoms of the First Amendment through education, information, and engagement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teaching the First Amendment, a new guide to sharing the core principles of free expression with students, has recently been published by the Free Speech Center as part of its educational outreach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The electronic book offers a highly accessible guide to incorporating First Amendment education into existing courses or in stand-alone lessons. Each of the five First Amendment freedoms is explained and explored with an emphasis on conveying these key principles to the next generation of citizens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authors are Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center; John Vile, dean of the MTSU Honors College; and Deborah Fisher, acting director of the John Seigenthaler Center for Excellence in First Amendment Studies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book was released in November at the annual journalism conference of the National Scholastic Press Association and the Associated Collegiate Press. The e-book is being made available to educators, students, and the public through a free download on the Free Speech Center\u2019s site at firstamendment.mtsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/First-Amendment-Book_FINAL.pdf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Free Speech Center at MTSU is a nonpartisan, nonprofit public policy center dedicated to building understanding of the five freedoms of the First Amendment through education, information, and engagement. Teaching the First Amendment, a new guide to sharing the core principles of free expression with students, has recently been published by the Free Speech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":192,"featured_media":2982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2983,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/2983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}