As the population of traditional college students continues to dwindle due to numerous factors (demographics, politics, alternative learning opportunities, etc.), lifelong learning has become more than a slogan for tertiary-level institutions that struggle to maintain viable cohorts of learners for the range of disciplines they house. A Google Scholar search for “lifelong learning” produces almost a million results, pulled from such publications as the International Journal of Lifelong Education, the Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, and Adult Education Quarterly.

Free Inquiry and Expression: From Principles to Educational Practice
Hundreds of colleges and universities have adopted free expression and institutional speech documents from the University of Chicago. In 1899, the University of Chicago faculty unanimously resolved that complete freedom


