I’m a university president. Our profession should finish what Charlie Kirk started

One year ago this week, on Sept. 10, Charlie Kirk was killed on a college campus in the middle of a debate. He was 31 years old. He was sitting under a tent at Utah Valley University in front of roughly 3,000 people, taking a question from a student who disagreed with him, and he was shot in the middle of his answer.

I have thought about that scene for a year, and the detail that still bothers me is the tent. Charlie had to bring his own stage, his own microphone and his own security to hold an open debate on an American campus.