Honorary Degrees and Academic Freedom with Bob O’Neil

Bob O'Neil, founding director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and former president of the University of Virginia, talks about how honorary degrees can trigger issues of academic freedom and advises how to avoid such controversy.

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