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Announced on: Monday, Mar. 02, 2026
The Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion would like to invite you to attend COEDI on April 23rd from 12-1PM (BMU 203). The di Tullio Affair—Chico State's most significant free speech crisis—unfolded in the mid-1960s when history professor Edmond di Tullio was dismissed after publicly criticizing U.S. policy, sparking debate over academic freedom and faculty participation in public discourse. Drawing on archival research and historical analysis, History Department faculty Rod Thomson and Jason Nice revisit this defining episode to examine: • The rights of faculty to engage in public speech Series Goals: This lecture builds on recent Conversations on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion programs, including Dr. Alberto Ledesma's examination of free speech and its uneven protections, the effects of anti-immigrant and anti–Ethnic Studies rhetoric, and the right to narrate lived experience. It extends these conversations by grounding national debates over academic freedom and campus speech in Chico State's own history—connecting past crisis to contemporary challenges. For any questions please contact: edi@csuchico.edu
• Institutional responses to political dissent
• The role of historical memory in shaping campus culture
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