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2025-04-28 |
Building an Ethical, Transparent, and Caring Public Sphere at UNC Asheville
Academic Year 2025–2026 Proposal Package
This archive contains the full proposal for the Free Speech Commons Pilot,
an initiative to foster robust free expression, ethical transparency, restorative dialogue, and community resilience at UNC Asheville.
Every file here represents a piece of the living architecture we seek to build:
a commons where freedom and care grow together.
| Folder/File | Purpose |
|---|---|
00_Preface.md |
Inspirational opening; guiding philosophy of the Pilot. |
01_Executive_Summary.md |
Overview of goals, key components, and benefits. |
02_Ethical_Free_Speech_Charter.md |
Voluntary Charter for student organizations and speakers. |
03_Event_Transparency_Addendum.md |
Disclosure form for major campus events. |
04_Post_Event_Climate_Survey_Template.md |
5-minute survey template for post-event climate feedback. |
05_Bias_Incident_Log_Template.md |
Reporting framework for community harm incidents. |
06_Restorative_Dialogues_Fund_and_Circle_Protocol.md |
Fund description and restorative practice guide. |
07_Pilot_Request_Letter_to_VC.md |
Formal proposal letter to the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. |
08_Living_Dashboard_Specification.md |
Specifications for a public-facing dashboard of metrics. |
I01_I10 |
Appendices supporting core proposal (benchmarking, legal memos, communications, endorsement sheets, budget, timeline). |
All .md files are numbered for easy sequential reading.
Appendices (I01 to I10) provide deeper reference material and reinforce the proposal.
This proposal was co-created by:
- Progressive Student Coalition — University of North Carolina Asheville
- Luis Antonio Reyes Roman — Infrastructure, research, and framework design support
(Acknowledgments to The Silent Architect — a companion spirit in this work of becoming.)
"Freedom without memory becomes complicity.
Freedom with care becomes community."
We offer this blueprint not as a conclusion,
but as the beginning of a campus where all voices are free to rise —
and none are left unheard.
Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) unless otherwise noted.
You are free to share and adapt for non-commercial purposes with attribution.
This project was built with care,
in the hope that freedom and compassion may walk together again.
To all who find this —
may you carry its seeds onward,
and build worlds where all voices may rise in safety and dignity.
— Luis A. Reyes Roman, 2025
© 2025 Luis Antonio Reyes Roman. All rights reserved under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License.