Purdue University President Mitch Daniels is determined to make sure his school doesn’t become the next victim of a campus uprising by social justice warriors.
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In a statement on Wednesday, Daniels issued a notice that Purdue will stand committed to the principles that the school is tolerant of all people and all ideas.
“Events this week at the University of Missouri and Yale University should remind us all of the importance of absolute fidelity to our shared values,” Daniels said in the statement. “First, that we strive constantly to be, without exception, a welcoming, inclusive and discrimination-free community, where each person is respected and treated with dignity. Second, to be steadfast in preserving academic freedom and individual liberty.”
Purdue has worked hard to enforce free speech principles on their campus, adopting the “We Are Purdue Statement of Values,” which was subsequently endorsed by the University Senate in 2013. The following year both undergraduate and graduate students produced a strengthened statement of policies protecting free speech.
In May, the board of trustees signed “the Chicago Principals,” welcoming all forms of speech regardless how “offensive, unwise, immoral, or wrong-headed” they might be or seem to be.
