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{{Short description|Educational forum focused on action around political issues}}
{{For|the Dutch musical group|Teach-In (band)}}

A '''teach-in''' is similar to    a general educational forum on any complicated issue, usually  an issue involving current political affairs. The main difference between a teach-in and a [[seminar]] is the refusal to limit the discussion to a specific time frame or a strict academic scope. Teach-ins are meant to be practical, [[participatory]], and oriented toward action. While they include experts lecturing on their area of expertise, discussion and questions from the audience are welcome, even mid-lecture. "Teach-ins" were popularized during the U.S. government's [[Vietnam War|involvement in Vietnam]]. The first teach-in, which was held overnight at the [[University of Michigan]] in March 1965, began with a discussion of the Vietnam War draft and ended in the early morning with a speech by philosopher [[Arnold Kaufman]].

==The first teach-in==
The concept of the teach-in was developed by anthropologist [[Marshall Sahlins]] of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor during a meeting on March 17, 1965. Previously, around 50 faculty members had signed onto a one-day teaching strike to oppose the Vietnam War.<ref name="Wells">{{cite book|last1=Wells|first1=Tom|title=The war within: America's battle over Vietnam|date=1994|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley, CA|isbn=0520083679|pages=[https://archive.org/details/warwithin00tomw/page/22 22–65]|url=https://archive.org/details/warwithin00tomw/page/22}}</ref> About a dozen of these faculty members, including [[William A. Gamson]], [[Jack Rothman]], [[Eric Wolf]], [[Arnold Kaufman]], [[Frithjof Bergmann]] and Roger Lind, reconsidered the strike and gathered to discuss alternative ways to protest the war in the face of strong opposition to the strike from the Michigan legislature and governor as well as the university president.<ref>{{cite news|title=MICHIGAN FACULTY CREATED TEACH-IN; 49 at University Staged the First Vietnam Protest|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1965/05/09/archives/michigan-faculty-created-teachin-49-at-university-staged-the-first.html|access-date=11 November 2016|work=The New York Times|date=9 May 1965|page=43}}</ref> The ''New York Times Magazine'' summed up how Sahlins arrived at the idea: "They say we're neglecting our responsibilities as teachers. Let's show them how responsible we feel. Instead of teaching out, we'll teach in—all night."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Levitas|first1=Mitchel|title=Vietnam Comes to Oregon U.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1965/05/09/archives/article-9-no-title-vietnam-comes-to-oregon-u-vietnam-comes-to.html|access-date=11 November 2016|work=New York Times Magazine|date=May 1965|pages=SM24}}</ref>

The term ''teach-in'' was a variant of another form of protest, the [[sit-in]]. Later variants included the [[die-in]], [[bed-in]], lie-in, and draft card turn-in.<ref name="ZaroulisSullivan">{{cite book|last1=Zaroulis|first1=Nancy|last2=Sullivan|first2=Gerald|title=Who spoke up? : American protest against the war in Vietnam, 1963-1975|date=1984|publisher=Doubleday|location=Garden City, N.Y.|isbn=0385175477|edition=1st}}</ref>{{rp|37}}

This first teach-in was organized by faculty and [[Students for a Democratic Society]] at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor on March 24–25, 1965.<ref name="ZaroulisSullivan"/>{{rp|37}} Michigan governor George Romney and other politicians still opposed the event.<ref name="DeBenedetti">{{cite book|last1=DeBenedetti|first1=Charles|last2=Chatfield|first2=Charles (assisting)|title=An American ordeal: the antiwar movement of the Vietnam era|url=https://archive.org/details/americanordealan00debe|url-access=registration|date=1990|publisher=Syracuse University Press|location=Syracuse, N.Y.|isbn=0815602456|edition=1st}}</ref> The teach-in was attended by about 3,500 people and consisted of debates, lectures, movies, and musical events aimed at protesting the war.<ref>{{cite book|last=Olson|first=James Stuart|title=Historical dictionary of the 1960s|url=https://archive.org/details/historicaldictio00olso|url-access=limited|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=1999|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historicaldictio00olso/page/n33 26]|isbn=0-313-29271-X}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Anderson|first=David L.|title=The human tradition in the Vietnam era|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2000|pages=[https://archive.org/details/humantraditionin0000unse_g6r6/page/183 183]|isbn=0-8420-2763-7|url=https://archive.org/details/humantraditionin0000unse_g6r6/page/183}}</ref> Michigan faculty members such as [[Anatol Rapoport]] and [[Charles Tilly]] were also involved. Women students who attended received special permission to stay out during the night. Bomb threats emptied the hall three times over the course of the teach-in, sending participants into the freezing cold, where they continued their activities. Other Michigan students in the Young Republicans organization picketed the event, protesting "anti-American policy."<ref name="NYT1965">{{cite news|title=PROFESSORS HOLD VIETNAM PROTEST: 3 Bomb Threats Disrupt 'Teach-in' at Michigan U.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1965/03/25/archives/professors-hold-vietnam-protest-3-bomb-threats-disrupt-teachin-at.html|access-date=11 November 2016|work=The New York Times|agency=Associated Press|date=25 March 1965|page=9}}</ref> The teach-in ended the next morning, concluding with a 600-person rally on the steps of the library.<ref name="DeBenedetti"/>{{rp|108}}

==Subsequent antiwar teach-ins==
[[File:Ucla-vietnam-war-teach-in-1966-03-25.jpg|alt=Leaflet is 8.5 x 14 inches and lists 21 speakers.|thumb|UCLA Vietnam Day Committee leaflet promoting its 25 March 1966 antiwar teach-in]]
The Michigan teach-in received national press, including an article published in the March 25, 1965 issue of the ''New York Times''.<ref name="NYT1965"/> It went on to inspire 35 more teach-ins on college campuses within the next week. By the end of the year, there had been teach-ins at 120 campuses.<ref name="DeBenedetti"/>{{rp|108}} Antiwar teach-ins were held until the end of the Vietnam War. These included:<ref name="ZaroulisSullivan"/>
* Columbia University, March 26, 1965<ref>{{cite news|last1=Phillips|first1=McCandlish|title=Now the Teach-In: U.S. Policy In Vietnam Criticized All Night|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E00E0DA153CE733A25754C2A9659C946491D6CF&legacy=true|access-date=11 November 2016|work=The New York Times|date=27 March 1965|page=29}}</ref>
* University of Wisconsin, April 1, 1965
* University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, and Temple University (coordinated), April 7, 1965
* Rutgers University, April 23, 1965<ref>{{cite news|title=A Rally at Rutgers|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1965/04/24/archives/a-rally-at-rutgers.html|access-date=11 November 2016|work=The New York Times (special)|date=24 April 1965|page=2}}</ref>
* Boston University, May 5, 1965
* National Teach-In (televised), Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington DC, May 15, 1965
* U.C. Berkeley, May 21–22, 1965
* Kent State University, spring 1965
* Harvard University, spring 1965
* Goucher College, spring 1965
* Marist College, spring 1965
* Principia College, spring 1965
* Flint Junior College, spring 1965
* Case Western University, spring 1965
* Berkeley, October 15, 1965
* UCLA, March 25, 1966<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/ucla-vietnam-war-teach-in-1966-03-25|title=UCLA Vietnam Day Committee planning and promotional documents for 25 March 1966 antiwar teach-in|date=25 March 1966}}</ref>
* New York University, March 30, 1971
* First Congregation Church, Washington, October 25–26, 1971
* Brandeis University, April 1975

Not all college students at the time were antiwar protesters, however. At many teach-ins, pro-war students showed up to protest or signed letters of support for college administration, including at Kent State University, the University of Wisconsin, and Yale University.<ref name="DeBenedetti"/>{{rp|108}}

===Teach-in at U.C. Berkeley===
The largest Vietnam teach-in was held on May 21–22, 1965 at [[University of California, Berkeley|U.C. Berkeley]]. The event was organized by the newly formed [[Vietnam Day Committee]] (VDC), an organizing group founded by ex-grad student [[Jerry Rubin]], Professor [[Stephen Smale]], and others. The event was held on a playing field where [[Zellerbach Hall|Zellerbach Auditorium]] is now located. Over the course of 36 hours, an estimated 30,000 people attended the event.<ref>{{cite book|last=Farrell|first=James J. |title=The spirit of the sixties: making postwar radicalism|publisher=Routledge|year=1997|isbn=0-415-91386-1}}</ref>
The State Department was invited by the VDC to send a representative, but declined. UC Berkeley professors [[Eugene Burdick]] and Robert A. Scalapino, who had agreed to speak in defense of President Johnson's handling of the war, withdrew at the last minute. An empty chair was set aside on the stage with a sign reading "Reserved for the State Department" taped to the back.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rorabaugh|first1=W.J.|title=Berkeley at war: the 1960s|url=https://archive.org/details/berkeleyatwar19600rora|url-access=registration|date=1989|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=0195066677}}</ref> {{rp|91–94}}

Participants in the event included Dr. [[Benjamin Spock]]; veteran socialist leader [[Norman Thomas]]; novelist [[Norman Mailer]]; independent journalist [[I. F. Stone]] and historian [[Isaac Deutscher]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Isaac Deutscher, UC Berkeley Teach-In, May 1965|url=http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificaviet/deutschertranscript.html|website=Library, University of California, Berkeley|access-date=11 November 2016}}</ref> Other speakers included: California Assemblymen [[Willie Brown (politician)|Willie Brown]], [[William Stanton (California Assemblyman)|William Stanton]] and [[John L. Burton|John Burton]]; [[Dave Dellinger]] (political activist); James Aronson ([[National Guardian]] magazine); philosopher [[Alan Watts]]; comedian [[Dick Gregory]]; [[Paul Krassner]] (editor, [[The Realist]]); [[M.S. Arnoni]] (philosopher, writer, political activist); [[Edward Keating]] (publisher, [[Ramparts Magazine]]); [[Felix Greene]] (author and film producer); Isadore Zifferstein (psychologist); Stanley Scheinbaum ([[Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions]]); [[Paul Jacobs (activist)|Paul Jacobs]] (journalist and anti-nuclear activist); [[Hal Draper]] (Marxist writer and a socialist activist); Levi Laud ([[Progressive Labor Movement]]); Si Casady ([[California Democratic Council]]); [[George Clark (activist)|George Clark]] (British [[Committee of 100 (United Kingdom)|Committee of 100]]/[[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]]); Robert Pickus (Turn Toward Peace); [[Bob Moses (activist)|Bob Moses]] ([[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]]); [[Jack Barnes (politician)|Jack Barnes]] (National Chair of the [[Young Socialist Alliance]]); [[Mario Savio]] ([[Free Speech Movement]]); Paul Potter ([[Students for a Democratic Society (1960 organization)|Students for a Democratic Society]]); and Mike Meyerson (national head of the Du Bois Clubs of America). British philosopher and pacifist [[Bertrand Russell]] sent a taped message to the teach-in.

Faculty participants included Professor [[Staughton Lynd]] (Yale); Professor [[Gerald Berreman]]; and Professor [[Aaron Wildavsky]]. Performers included folk singer [[Phil Ochs]]; the improv group [[The Committee (improv group)|The Committee]]; and others. The proceedings were recorded and broadcast, many of them live, by Berkeley FM station KPFA. Excerpts from the speeches by Lynd, Wildavsky, Scheer, Potter, Krassner, Moses (credited as Bob Parris, his middle name), Spock, Stone, Gregory, and Arnoni were released the following year as an LP by Folkways Records, FD5765.<ref>{{cite web|title=Berkeley Teach-In: Vietnam. Voices and Documents.|url=http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/folkways/FW05765.pdf|website=Smithsonian Folkways|publisher=Folkways Records|access-date=11 November 2016}}</ref> An online archive, including recordings and transcripts of many of the participants, is maintained by the Library of the University of California, Berkeley.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificaviet.html#65anti | title = The Pacifica Radio/UC Berkeley Social Activism Sound Recording Project:Anti-Vietnam War Protests in the San Francisco Bay Area & Beyond | publisher = University of California Berkeley Library | access-date = 8 December 2016 }}</ref>

===Scrutiny and surveillance===
As part of the [[Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War|antiwar movement]] at the time, teach-ins were regarded by the FBI (then directed by [[J. Edgar Hoover]]) and the Lyndon B. Johnson administration as potentially dangerous to national interests. At a teach-in organized by the Universities Committee on Problems of War and Peace, 13 undercover agents attended and identified students, faculty, speakers, and activists by name and affiliation, passing the information to the FBI.<ref name="davis">{{cite book|last1=Davis|first1=James Kirkpatrick|title=Assault on the left the FBI and the sixties antiwar movement|date=1997|publisher=Praeger|location=Westport, Conn.|isbn=0275954552|url=https://archive.org/details/assaultonleftfbi00davi}}</ref>{{rp|29}}
A Senate study, "The Anti-Vietnam Agitation and the Teach-In Movement," was prepared in October 1965 by the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws.<ref name="senatestudy">{{cite book|last1=United States Senate|title=The Anti-Vietnam Agitation and the Teach-In Movement: A Study Prepared for the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws to the Committee on the Judiciary.|date=October 22, 1965|publisher=US Government Printing Office|pages=28–33}}</ref> This report stated, "In reality, the great majority of teach-ins (there were a few notable exceptions to this rule) have had absolutely nothing in common with the procedures of fair debate or the process of education. In practice, they were a combination of an indoctrination session, a political protest demonstration, an endurance contest, and a variety show." The study claimed that teach-ins were a form of Communist activity, noting that "people of known Communist background were frequently involved."<ref name="senatestudy"/>{{rp|xii}}

===Legacy of antiwar teach-ins===
<blockquote>
"[The] stroke of genius out there in Michigan ... put the debate on the map for the whole academic community. And you could not be an intellectual after those teach-ins and not think a lot and express yourself and defend your ideas about Vietnam." —[[Carl Oglesby]], organizer at the 1965 University of Michigan teach-in and then-president of SDS, quoted in'' The War Within, ''Tom Wells<ref name="Wells"/>{{rp|24}}
</blockquote>

<blockquote>
"The 1965 teach-ins were significant, in fact, more because of their very organization than for their novelty or the extent of student protest. They legitimized dissent at the outset of the war. The vacuum of understanding which they exposed created a market for information. … Moreover, the 1965 teach-ins served to identify a coterie of academic experts who challenged national policy, helped to make connections among them, and established them as an alternative source of information and understanding." —''An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era,'' Charles DeBenedetti<ref name="DeBenedetti"/>{{rp|109}}
</blockquote>

<blockquote>
"In raising anti-war consciousness in the nation as a whole, far beyond the academic community, the teach-ins were an historic turning point in the politics of the Vietnam War. ... This liberal bias of the teach-in movement, however, was one of the too-many-reasons-to-recount-here why the academic community lost its leadership role as fast as it had gained it. Part of the problem was that as soon as the teach-in movement politicized the counterculture, the latter began to counterculturalize the politics. Hence the tension between the political and the carnival in the student left as it moved from liberal protest to radical resistance and campus violence... Alienated by the left students’ tactics, the largely liberal anti-war public reverted to traditional modes of protest, although the marches and demonstrations were now massive in scale, varied in social composition and increasingly joined by establishment politicians." —Marshall Sahlins in ''Anthropology Today'', 2009<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Sahlins|first1=Marshall|title=The Teach-ins: Anti-war protest in the Old Stoned Age|journal=Anthropology Today|date=February 2009|volume=25|issue=1|pages=3–5|doi=10.1111/j.1467-8322.2009.00639.x}}</ref>
</blockquote>

Teach-ins were one activity of the [[New Left]]. Students, faculty, and other activists involved in the teach-ins would go on to organize other antiwar protests, including the 20,000-person rally at the Washington Monument in April 1965.<ref name="Wells"/>{{rp|25}} Teach-ins have continued through the decades since 1965 in response to other national crises, including climate change.

==Modern events==

In the 1990s activists began a new series of teach-ins focused on the [[corporatization of education]] and on [[corporate power]] generally. These began under the name of the 'National Teach-Ins on Corporations, Education, and Democracy' in 1996<ref>{{cite web|title=Corporations And Democracy Teach-in, October, 13-19, 1996 [announcement email for Wisconsin event]|url=https://ratical.org/corporations/OctTeachin.html|website=Ratical|access-date=11 November 2016}}</ref> and continued on as the '[[Democracy Teach-Ins]]' (DTIs) of 1998, 1999, 2001, and 2002. Leading activist and intellectual figures of the 1990s, including [[Cornel West]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sawano|first1=Nanaho|title=Cornel West Opens Democracy Teach-Ins|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1998/3/3/cornel-west-opens-democracy-teach-ins-pprofessor/?page=|access-date=11 November 2016|work=Harvard Crimson|date=1998-03-03}}</ref> [[Medea Benjamin]], [[Richard Grossman (author)|Richard Grossman]], [[Naomi Klein]], and [[Vandana Shiva]] spoke at the Democracy Teach-Ins, which were coordinated in their first years by Ben Manski. The Democracy Teach-ins were coordinated on hundreds of campuses at once, and were intended to build campus-based networks of pro-democracy activists. The 1999 Democracy Teach-Ins, in particular, played a role in mobilizing students for the [[1999 Seattle WTO protests]]; the 2002 teach-ins played a similar role in preparing for the 2003 national [[Books Not Bombs]] student strike. After 1998, the DTIs became a project of the campus syndicalist movement [[180/Movement for Democracy and Education]].

Teach-ins have more recently been used by environmental educators. The ‘2010 Imperative: A Global Emergency Teach-in’ was held on February 20, 2007, at the New York Academy of Science and organized by Architecture 2030, led by architect [[Edward Mazria]] and viewable online through a webcast.<ref>{{cite web|title=2010 Imperative Global Emergency Teach-In|url=http://architecture2030.org/2010-imperative-global-emergency-teach-in/|website=Architecture 2030|access-date=11 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Global Emergency Teach-In|url=http://architecture2030.org/global-emergency-teach-in/|website=Architecture 2030|access-date=11 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Rich|first1=Sarah|title=THE 2010 IMPERATIVE: Global Emergency Teach-In|url=http://inhabitat.com/the-2010-imperative-global-emergency-teach-in/|website=Inhabitat|access-date=11 November 2016}}</ref>

The teach-in model was also used by a ‘Focus the Nation’ event January 31, 2008, to raise [[Climate change education|awareness about climate change]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Colleges host 'teach-in' on warming - Climate Change|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna22950109|access-date=11 November 2016|work=NBC News|publisher=Associated Press|date=12 May 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Manning|first1=Cyril|title=01.28.2008 - Campus joins national Focus the Nation "teach-in" with Jan. 31 global warming symposium|url=http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/01/28_focus.shtml|access-date=11 November 2016|work=UC Berkeley News|date=2008-01-28}}</ref> A 'National Teach-in' was held in February 2009, also addressing global climate change.<ref>{{cite web|title=Join NAU in: The National Teach-In on Climate Change Solutions|url=http://cefns.nau.edu/Projects/NTI/|website=Northern Arizona University|access-date=11 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=National Teach-In [Internet Archive snapshot]|url=http://www.nationalteachin.org/|access-date=11 November 2016|date=26 July 2009|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090726194318/http://www.nationalteachin.org/|archive-date=26 July 2009}}</ref>

In 2011, [[Occupy Wall Street]] movement began using teach-ins to educate people about the inherent problems of capitalism.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Occupy Wall Street Plans 'Teach-In' After Jay-Z Questions Movement|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/occupy-wall-street-plans-teach-in-after-jay-z-questions-movement-20120910|access-date=11 November 2016|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=2012-09-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Lucas|first1=Bobbie|title=Occupy Wall Street teach-in inspires - Democracy Matters|url=http://www.democracymatters.org/dm-in-the-news/occupy-wall-street-teach-in-inspires/|website=Democracy Matters|date=15 November 2011|access-date=11 November 2016}}</ref>

In 2015 and 2016, [[Black Lives Matter]] teach-ins were held across the United States, including in [[Ithaca, New York]];<ref>{{cite news|last1=Daniel|first1=Aloi|title=Black Lives Matter teach-in aims to inspire, inform|url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/10/black-lives-matter-teach-aims-inspire-inform|access-date=11 November 2016|work=Cornell Chronicle|date=2015-10-19}}</ref> the [[Pratt Institute]];<ref>{{cite web|title=Black Lives Matter Teach-In Old|url=https://blacklivesmatterpratt.com/teachin-old/|website=Black Lives Matter Pratt|access-date=11 November 2016|date=3 February 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161112023247/https://blacklivesmatterpratt.com/teachin-old/|archive-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> [[Framingham State University]];<ref>{{cite news|last1=Morrison|first1=Bailey|title=FSU holds forum to discuss last week's Black Lives Matter teach in|url=http://fsugatepost.com/2016/03/04/fsu-holds-forum-to-discuss-last-weeks-black-lives-matter-teach-in/|access-date=11 November 2016|work=FSU Gatepost|date=4 March 2016}}</ref> and Greenville, South Carolina.<ref>{{cite news|title=Activists hold Black Lives Matter Teach-In in Greenville|url=http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/33181562/activists-hold-black-lives-matter-teach-in-in-greenville|access-date=11 November 2016|work=Fox Carolina|date=2016-10-02}}</ref>

In 2017 and 2018, the University of Michigan ran a number of free online "Teach-Outs" on topics such as free speech, fake news, hurricanes, and science communications.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/michigan/articles/2017-03-14/university-of-michigan-launching-online-teach-out-series|title=University of Michigan Launching Online 'Teach-Out' Series|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180509014108/https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/michigan/articles/2017-03-14/university-of-michigan-launching-online-teach-out-series|archive-date=2018-05-09|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2018/02/university_of_michigan_hosting_3.html|title=University of Michigan hosting online series about free speech issues|date=22 February 2018}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.educationdive.com/news/in-wake-of-irma-harvey-and-jose-university-of-michigan-experts-offer-onli/504998/|title=In wake of Irma, Harvey and Jose, University of Michigan experts offer online 'teachouts' on hurricanes}}</ref> Some of the Teach-Outs were hosted on [[Coursera]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

In 2018, the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame partnered to offer a series of teach-ins and an online "Teach-Out" on Puerto Rico's hurricane recovery efforts.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.news-medical.net/news/20180829/Increase-in-Puerto-Rico-death-toll-not-surprising-says-U-M-expert.aspx|title=Increase in Puerto Rico death toll not surprising, says U-M expert|date=2018-08-29|work=News-Medical.net|access-date=2018-10-16|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://wsbt.com/news/local/notre-dame-and-michigan-universities-team-up-to-give-voice-to-puerto-rican-people|title=Notre Dame and Michigan team up to give voice to Puerto Rican hurricane victims|last=Ortega |first=Veronica |work=WSBT|access-date=2018-10-16|language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2018, Stanford University held a teach-in for gun-violence in schools.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://ed.stanford.edu/news/stanford-gse-holds-teach-research-gun-violence-schools|title=Stanford GSE Holds Teach-in on Research into Gun Violence in Schools|date=2018-04-19|work=ed.stanford.edu|access-date=2018-10-31|language=en}}</ref>

In 2018, students, faculty, and alumni at [[Edinburgh University]] held teach-ins on a range of issues while occupying the George Square lecture theatre in support of the University College Union strikes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thetab.com/uk/edinburgh/2018/03/25/we-spoke-to-the-george-square-occupiers-about-what-theyre-doing-and-what-its-like-living-in-a-lecture-theatre-44741|title = We spoke to the George Square occupiers about what they're doing and what it's like living in a lecture theatre|date = 25 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://studentnewspaper.org/article/students-should-support-those-occupying-george-square|title=Students should support those occupying George Square - the Student}}</ref>

In 2020, students and faculty at [[Haverford College]] held teach-ins on racial justice and other related issues during a strike against the college for its refusal to meet the demands proposed by Black and other POC students.

==See also==
*[[Bed-In]] a 1969 campaign for peace in the [[Vietnam War]] by [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]]
*[[Die-in]]
*[[Sit-in]]
*[[Work-in]]
*[[Central Park be-in]]
*[[Human Be-In]]
*[[List of peace activists]]
*[[Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam]]
*[[National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam]]

==References==
<references/>

==Further reading==
* ''OUT NOW! A participant's account of the American movement against the Vietnam war''. Fred Halstead. New York:Monad Press, 1978.
* [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-85305?view=text Arnold S. Kaufman papers: 1954-1971 (finding aid)], held at the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan—Ann Arbor
* [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-88244?view=text Richard D. Mann papers: 1965-1984 (finding aid)], held at the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan—Ann Arbor
* [http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/uarchives/teachinsf.html Inventory to the Records of the Office of Public Information on the Vietnam War Teach-Ins, 1965-1966], held at Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries 
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070216142900/http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/searches.hom/forpol.hom/VIETNAM.asp National Security File, Files of McGeorge Bundy], held at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library

==External links==
* [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificaviet Texts and online audio recordings] of Berkeley Teach-in speakers
* [https://archive.today/20090116061500/http://www.focusthenation.org/focus-nation-2008-0 Focus the Nation Teach-in]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090203192612/http://www.architecture2030.org/2010_imperative/index.html 2010 Imperative Teach-in]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20171215202124/http://www.teach-in.co.uk/ 2012 Imperative Teach-in - Ecological Literacy in Design Education]

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