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Free Expression at JHU

Johns Hopkins University is committed to the steadfast protection of free expression. This commitment emerges from the university’s time-honored role in the creation of knowledge and the exploration of ideas. Without full and vigorous protection of this value, the university’s ability to discharge its mission would be compromised.

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About Free Expression

What is free expression? Learn more about this foundational value, and its scope and responsibilities.

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Get Involved

How can you participate in expression on campus? Find out more about the programs and initiatives that support and promote dialogue across the university.

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Contacts

Where can you turn if you have questions about expression on campus? Here are some of the people available to talk to.

Quote from President Ronald J. Daniels

“We honor and celebrate the right to challenge received wisdom and advance ideas that are bracing, provocative, sometimes unsettling. We do so because we believe that open debate and discussion, the rigorous contestation of ideas, are indispensable to our truth-seeking function.

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President Ronald J. Daniels
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