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Commentary: Protest and Civil Disobedience are Two Different Things

Keith Whittington
Chronicle of Higher Education

Excerpt: Shafik’s actions in New York City may have repercussions across the country as students elsewhere hold their own rallies in sympathy with the protesters at Columbia. College leaders should be thinking hard about what principles will guide their own response to such protests and whether Shafik’s example should be a model.

Every college needs a set of policies balancing the need to provide ample opportunity for free expression on campus with the need to preserve the efficient and effective functioning of the university.

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