This one-day course, Free Speech and Responding to Protests and Activism in Educational Settings, provides a comprehensive overview of the complexities involved in navigating tensions between freedom of expression and ensuring an educational environment free from harassment and discrimination. ATIXA’s expert faculty will explore schools’ responsibilities in responding to protests, preventing and addressing disruptions, and ensuring that all voices are heard in a respectful and lawful manner. Topics include understanding the limits of free speech, addressing hate speech and harassment, protest management strategies, referral considerations to other institutional support systems or processes, and institutional legal obligations. Through case studies and practical exercises, participants will gain the skills needed to respond to Title VI discrimination and harassment complaints in a timely and equitable manner.
Pre-learning will be available to the course participants when the ATIXA Event Lobby opens 5 days before the start of the course.
After completing this training, participants will be able to:
- Create or improve procedures for responding to Title VI complaints, ensuring timely and effective action
- Explain the legal principles governing free speech and protest activity in public and private educational institutions, including the limits of those rights
- Distinguish between protected speech, hate speech, and harassment under federal and state law, and understand the institution's role in addressing each
- Assess how to balance the rights of protestors with the need for safety, maintaining order, and protecting the educational environment
- Create clear and legally sound institutional policies and protocols for handling protests, ensuring compliance with free speech protections
- Implement strategies to manage protests that disrupt institutional operations while respecting lawful expressions of free speech
- Develop proactive strategies to foster open, respectful dialogue on controversial issues, reducing the likelihood of conflicts escalating to protests
Who Should Attend?
- Compliance Officers
- Student Affairs Administrators
- Campus Security Personnel/School Resource Officers
- District/Institutional Leaders
- Legal Counsel Responsible for Managing Free Speech and Protest-Related Issues in Educational Environments
Upcoming Sessions
| Schedule | Member | Non-Member | |
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January 29 8:30am - 4:30pm PT Hilton Lake Las Vegas Resort and Spa |
$799 | $999 | |
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March 11 10:00am - 5:00pm ET |
$699 | $899 |
The pricing above is effective if purchased today. Take advantage of our Early Bird Pricing to secure your spot at a reduced rate until typically 10 weeks prior to the event. After the Early Bird pricing ends, our Regular Pricing takes effect, typically available up to 2 weeks before the event begins. Last Chance Pricing is your final opportunity to register, typically during the last 2 weeks before the event start date.
Register yourself or your team for two to four courses and receive a 15% discount; register for five or more and receive a 25% discount. Please create your order, click the 'Pay Later' option upon checkout, and reach out to events@atixa.org for the discounts to be applied.
Contact events@atixa.org to learn more about multi-registration discounts.
- Attendance for each day of training or access to eTraining course for three months
- An extensive course-specific selection of articles, customizable forms and templates, case studies, videos, and more
- Instructional slides or transcript for eTraining
- Access to ATIXA content experts
- Ability to interact with faculty and attendees via course discussion and activities
- Certification upon corresponding course completion
To obtain certification from ATIXA, you will need to sign-in to your Event Lobby each day of training and attend the whole event. It is our expectation that you are present for the entire duration of your training course. Certification will only be provided once ATIXA has verified attendance through the Event Lobby.
Please allow 7-10 days following the completion of the course and then log in on our website and visit the My ATIXA page to access the Continuing Certification Credit (CCC) program system. Please follow the instructions on the webpage to obtain your certification. Our CCC program allows those certified by ATIXA to track, maintain, and extend their professional development through our programs.
PLEASE NOTE: Certification refers to attendance at a qualifying event; TNG cannot speak to individual attendees’ knowledge, expertise, or command of the material.