Chancellor to serve as moderator for town hall on race, responsibility, free speech

Update: This event has been moved to Woodruff Auditorium. The time and date of the event have not changed.

LAWRENCE — Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little will serve as the moderator for a University of Kansas town hall meeting on the topics of race, respect, responsibility and freedom of speech at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, in the Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.

The town hall meeting, which was announced Monday, is designed to be an open conversation among students, faculty and staff. The goal is to create an affirming space for voices from a number of communities and backgrounds to be heard and considered.

“Recent events at the University of Missouri, Yale University and other schools have intensified our nation’s ongoing conversation about race and, more generally, about respect, responsibility and free speech,” Chancellor Gray-Little said. “We want our students, faculty and staff to be engaged in these topics and to discuss the implications for our campus, but also for our nation and society. This town hall meeting is an opportunity for us to advance the conversation.”

The event is organized by the Office of the Chancellor, the Office of Student Affairs and the Office of Diversity and Equity, in conjunction with the Office of Multicultural Affairs.