Pepperdine University School of Public Policy dean Pete Peterson spoke about the recent protest against Amy Coney Barrett at the University of Minnesota.
Pepperdine University School of Public Policy’s Pete Peterson offered some optimism for free speech in the wake of ongoing campus protests and hostility against opposing viewpoints. A recent campus protest targeted Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett as she spoke at the University of Minnesota. A group of about ten protesters attempted to shout down Barrett before they were escorted out by campus police.
would say that Pepperdine and certainly the School of Public Policy, we have a saying we call viewpoint diversity. It's right on the home page of our website. And that's really the commitment that allows that students should be able to express themselves inside the classroom as long as they're doing it in a civil way. But we really do believe that how you prepare public leaders is to understand how the other side thinks,' Peterson said.
He added, 'At the next level, and this gets into, you know, issues all about inside the classroom, I do think it's important that colleges are thinking about their hiring, that they are thinking about issues of viewpoint diversity in their hiring bill. A number of universities there's not a single conservative faculty member in entire departments.
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