{"id":1279318,"date":"2022-02-07T12:17:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T17:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1279318"},"modified":"2022-02-07T17:22:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T22:22:47","slug":"here-are-americas-worst-colleges-for-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/here-are-americas-worst-colleges-for-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Are America\u2019s Worst Colleges For Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhere-are-americas-worst-colleges-for-free-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1279318&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Readers-Pass-Zeisloft-These-Are-The-Worst-Colleges-For-Free-Speech-In-2022-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>It is no secret that higher education in the United States is a breeding ground for the worst strains of leftism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Many once-great universities are making national news for succumbing to the leftist zeitgeist gripping the nation \u2014 by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/legal-analyst-weighs-in-on-supreme-court-affirmative-action-cases\"><span>discriminating<\/span><\/a><span> against Asian and white applicants,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-penn-students-disturbed-by-transgender-swimmer-dominating-female-swim-team-fear-retaliation-from-leftist-classmates\"><span>forcing<\/span><\/a><span> female athletes to compete against men,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/college-students-push-back-against-draconian-covid-rules\"><span>pushing<\/span><\/a><span> COVID-19 vaccine mandates, and even by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/columbia-to-host-six-graduation-ceremonies-divided-by-sex-race-income\"><span>encouraging<\/span><\/a><span> racial segregation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Perhaps the most dangerous trend in academia is censorship \u2014 an utter disregard for free speech, coupled with the violent suppression of anyone who would engage in \u201cwrongthink\u201d that deviates from progressive orthodoxy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Each year, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) \u2014 a legal nonprofit that defends the First Amendment rights of professors and students \u2014 assembles a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/10-worst-colleges-for-free-speech-2022\/?utm_source=FIRE_Update&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Update&amp;fb_subscribed=true\"><span>list<\/span><\/a><span> of the worst colleges for free speech. As FIRE explains, these universities \u201chave been steadfast in their refusal to grant students and faculty even the most basic guarantees of freedom or fairness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Here are the worst of the worst.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Emerson College<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Emerson College cozied up to authoritarian communism by punishing students who distributed stickers critical of the Chinese regime:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span>On Sept. 27, members of the campus chapter of Turning Point USA distributed stickers that referenced a popular video game and depicted the phrase \u201cChina Kinda Sus\u201d \u2014 slang for suspicious. The \u201cChina Kinda Sus\u201d sticker also featured an image of a hammer and sickle. One of those stickers \u2014 guess which \u2014 drew student objections online, and Emerson\u2019s administration quickly condemned the stickers, stating that they \u201cexpressed anti-China hate.\u201d Under pressure from campus groups and others, Emerson suspended its chapter of TPUSA and launched an investigation.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Although the school concluded that TPUSA \u201cdid not intend to target anyone other than China\u2019s government,\u201d the group was still held responsible for violating Emerson\u2019s policies against biased behavior. When blasted on social media, Emerson hid Twitter comments featuring Winnie the Pooh \u2014 a symbol used to mock Chinese President Xi Jinping.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>University of Illinois at Chicago<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The University of Illinois at Chicago lashed out against a professor, temporarily suspending him from his position for including censored racial slurs in an exam about employment discrimination:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span>Law professor Jason Kilborn asked an exam question in his civil procedure class involving an employment-law hypothetical where, among other things, a woman accused her former employer of discrimination. The question included the fact that the complainant claimed they were called \u2014 and this is verbatim \u2014 \u201ca \u2018n____\u2019 and \u2018b____\u2019 (profane expressions for African Americans and women)\u201d on the job. Kilborn had used the prompt in previous years\u2019 exams without incident.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>With the help of FIRE, Kilborn reached an agreement with UIC that would return him to the classroom. However, the administration soon reneged on the agreement, forcing Kilborn to take individual training about \u201cclassroom conversations that address racism\u201d before being allowed to return.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kilborn, however, soon noticed that the training mentioned the same slur \u2014 redacted in the same way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>University of Florida<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The University of Florida denied professors\u2019 requests to serve as expert witnesses in a lawsuit about voting rights legislation:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span>In October, after professors Sharon Wright Austin, Michael McDonald, and Daniel Smith filed disclosure forms with UF concerning their planned involvement in the voting rights lawsuit, the university denied the requests, vaguely claiming that the professors\u2019 activity \u201cmay pose a conflict of interest to the executive branch of the State of Florida\u201d and that \u201clitigation against the state is adverse to UF\u2019s interests.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The university\u2019s decision was met with outrage \u2014 and other professors began to come forward to describe similar instances of censorship. Fortunately, the professors had the last laugh:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span>Under rising pressure, UF relented and allowed the professors to testify, and ultimately revised its policy governing faculty members\u2019 outside activities to make it more speech-protective. But the professors sued, and, in a blistering decision, a federal judge blocked UF from enforcing even the revised policy because it still gave the university too much discretion. It didn\u2019t help that the chairman of UF\u2019s board of trustees went on record condemning faculty members who \u201cimproperly advocate personal political viewpoints to the exclusion of others.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The University of Florida\u2019s viewpoint discrimination has also occurred on the basis of race. As The Daily Wire reported last year, the school <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/university-department-invites-students-to-town-hall-event-but-not-white-students\"><span>invited<\/span><\/a><span> all of the students in an anthropology course to a virtual town hall \u2014 except for the white students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Stanford University<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Stanford University earned its spot on FIRE\u2019s list for investigating a student who engaged in political satire:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span>On Jan. 25, 2021, Stanford law student Nicholas Wallace sent a satirical email to a student listserv, inviting students to a fake Federalist Society event: \u201cOriginalist Case for Inciting Insurrection.\u201d The fake event (scheduled for Jan. 6 \u2014 almost three weeks in the past) would feature Sen. Josh Hawley and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton as keynote speakers, suggesting insurrection and \u201cdoing a coup\u201d as approaches to achieving limited government.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>After Stanford\u2019s Federalist Society complained, the university launched an investigation and placed Wallace\u2019s diploma on hold \u2014 a mere two weeks before his graduation. Stanford only dropped the investigation after pressure from FIRE and several mainstream media outlets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At the end of the year, Stanford\u2019s student government engaged in the same type of censorship before reversing its decision:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span>In December, Stanford\u2019s Undergraduate Senate declined to fund a College Republicans\u2019 request for a speaker event with former Vice President Mike Pence, scheduled to be held later this month. Student senators initially cited concerns about the spread of COVID-19 and the potential for the event to draw large crowds from outside of the county and state in denying the request. However, audio recordings suggest the decision was instead based on objections to the \u201cpropagation of ideals\u201d or \u201cmorals and values,\u201d not safety.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Stanford\u2019s restrictions upon student liberties extend into every facet of university life. As The Daily Wire reported in 2020, Stanford <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/stanford-university-requiring-graduate-students-to-sign-agreement-restricting-guests-indoor-gatherings-travel\"><span>required<\/span><\/a><span> graduate students to sign a \u201cCampus Compact\u201d that barred them from participating in indoor events, hosting guests in university housing, or traveling outside of northern California without quarantining.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Stanford also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/stanford-opens-new-research-center-linked-to-the-chinese-communist-party\"><span>locked<\/span><\/a><span> arms with the most repressive regime on the planet by launching the \u201cStanford Center on China\u2019s Economy and Institutions\u201d \u2014 run by the Freeman Spogli Institute, a foreign policy organization connected to the Chinese government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Last year, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill considered hiring 1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones as a journalism professor \u2014 even <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/unc-chapel-hill-grants-nikole-hannah-jones-tenure-after-backlash\"><span>suspending<\/span><\/a><span> the normal tenure process to do so. When professors expressed their disdain, administrators surveilled their communications:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span>Specifically, UNC targeted journalism professors Deb Aikat and Daniel Kreiss, who both have given interviews or spoken out on social media about their frustration with the university\u2019s handling of Hannah-Jones\u2019 tenure bid. UNC called Aikat and Kreiss in for investigatory meetings, claiming it was doing its due diligence to discover who had disclosed the allegedly confidential donor agreement between UNC and Walter Hussman \u2014 the mega donor after whom UNC\u2019s journalism school is named.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The problem? Neither Aikat nor Kreiss had access to the donor agreement before it was widely distributed. Thus, it would have been difficult for either professor to be the source of the alleged leak, making the investigation\u2019s focus on them appear to be retaliation for their criticism of the university. On the other hand, numerous administrators, development personnel, and administrative staff did have access to the document before its wide distribution.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Indeed, FIRE points out that the move violated the school\u2019s own electronic privacy policy, which generally disallows administrators from looking through faculty emails.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mimicking the administration\u2019s actions, hackers <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/university-of-north-carolina-student-publication-vandalized-hacked-nazi-scum-fk-off\"><span>broke<\/span><\/a><span> into the website for The Carolina Review \u2014 a conservative student publication \u2014 and vandalized their distribution boxes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cCarolina Review is the only publication on campus openly willing to break with the culturally-left orthodoxy of the university\u2019s student body, and some people here can be unhinged,\u201d editor-in-chief Bryson Piscitelli told The Daily Wire. \u201cWe\u2019ve had writers never submit again or resign because of intense personal pressure from classmates, roommates, even sorority sisters.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is no secret that higher education in the United States is a breeding ground for the worst strains of leftism.Many once-great universities are making national news for succumbing to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}