Garvey on "Endorsements and Academic Freedom"

My friend and former colleague John Garvey (CUA) has a good piece at Touchstone, called "Endorsement & Academic Freedom."  In the essay, he works through the various questions that arise when one is trying to figure out what, say, inviting a speaker or conferring an honorary degree means or communicates.  (I wrote an essay, a little while back, on a similar topic.  It's called "Whom Should a Catholic University Honor?  Speaking with Integrity", and can be downloaded here.)  And, he points out the . . . uneasy fit between the view, on the one hand, that "giving an honorary degree to someone does not at all suggest endorsement of that person's views" and, on the other, the view that universities should deny recognition to, say, religious students groups becauses recognition would suggest endorsement of such groups' exclusionary practices.  And, running throughout the piece is the important theme that Garvey has promoted and defended elsewhere, i.e., "institutional pluralism."