{"id":2024766,"date":"2023-09-07T15:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T19:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abysmal-harvard-named-worst-school-for-free-speech-scores-zero-out-of-100\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T15:10:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T19:10:11","slug":"abysmal-harvard-named-worst-school-for-free-speech-scores-zero-out-of-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abysmal-harvard-named-worst-school-for-free-speech-scores-zero-out-of-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard ranked worst for free speech, scores zero out of 100."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fabysmal-harvard-named-worst-school-for-free-speech-scores-zero-out-of-100%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=2024766&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--><section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"\u2018Abysmal\u2019: Harvard Named Worst School for Free Speech, Scores Zero Out of 100\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/large-majority-of-americans-think-biden-was-involved-in-hunters-business-dealings-cnn-poll-finds\" data-post-url id=\"print-1792215\">\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<h2>Harvard University (Twitter screenshot)<\/h2>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Harvard University has been deemed \u200dthe worst\u2064 college in the country for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/project-veritas-strips-cnn-naked\/\" title=\"Project Veritas Strips CNN Naked\">free speech<\/a>, according to a report released\u200b on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Harvard University came in dead last \u200cwith the lowest score possible, \u20640.00, more than four standard deviations below the mean,&#8221; according to\u200c the Foundation \u200bfor Individual \u2062Rights in\u2063 Education&#8217;s latest \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/research-learn\/2024-college-free-speech-rankings\">College Free Speech Rankings<\/a>. \u200dThese rankings evaluate colleges annually\u200b based on their tolerance \u2063of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-ftc-punished-twitter-for-seceding-from-the-censorship-complex\/\" title=\"Biden's FTC penalized Twitter for leaving the censorship network.\">free\u2063 speech<\/a>. \u200cThe\u2063 foundation \u200dranked 248 \u2062schools and placed \u2062Harvard at the bottom, giving it an &#8220;abysmal&#8221; rating.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064report highlights\u2064 that \u200bHarvard experienced \u2063nine attempts \u200dto deplatform\u200d scholars between 2019 and 2023, resulting in sanctions imposed by the \u2062administration, including the revocation of a speaking invitation. Harvard consistently ranks \u200cin \u2063the bottom \u2062quartile of the foundation&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-washington-d-c-worst-place-in-country-americans-say\/\" title=\"Poll: Washington, D.C. Worst Place In Country, Americans Say\">annual rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thus, while alarming,\u2063 Harvard\u2019s dismal performance this year is \u200cnot \u2062an aberration,&#8221; states the executive \u2062summary of the report.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the\u200d report found that \u206463 percent of college students believe it is acceptable to engage in &#8220;shouting down a speaker to\u200b prevent them\u2062 from speaking on campus.&#8221; Even among the top five schools \u200cfor\u2063 free speech in the foundation&#8217;s \u200brankings\u2014Michigan Technological University, Auburn\u200d University, the University of New \u200dHampshire, Oregon State University,\u2063 and Florida \u2062State University\u2014only \u200b45 percent of students said shouting down a speaker \u2062is &#8220;never\u200b acceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harvard has recently made\u200b headlines for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elizabeth-warren-demands-federal-probe-into-oil-executives-salaries\/\" title=\"Elizabeth Warren Demands Federal Probe Into Oil Executives\u2019 Salaries\">prioritizing social justice<\/a> over scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling in\u200b June that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abysmal-harvard-named-worst-school-for-free-speech-scores-zero-out-of-100\/\" title=\"Harvard ranked worst for free speech, scores zero out of 100.\">declared \u200drace-based college admissions \u200bunconstitutional<\/a>, the \u2062university hinted that it \u200cwould still\u200b consider race in deciding student \u2063admissions. In July, \u200dHarvard\u2064 Law professor\u2063 Mark Tushnet collaborated with San Francisco State professor Aaron \u200dBelkin\u200d to write an open letter urging President Joe Biden to &#8220;restrain MAGA justices&#8221; on \u200cthe Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard University ranks as the worst college for free speech in the US, scoring a perfect 0.00, according to a recent report by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. This places Harvard more than four standard deviations below the mean, as revealed in a Twitter screenshot from the university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2112,"featured_media":2024768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024766","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\/2112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2024768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}