FIRE investigative report: Alarming free speech climate at Tufts a warning to students at all private campuses (VIDEO)
By Aaron Reese and Alex Morey April 25, 2017
Students who publicly support unpopular views at Tufts University do so at their own risk.
That’s the conclusion of our months-long investigation into the state of free speech at the elite Boston-area private school.
While not bound by the First Amendment, Tufts’ broadly speech-protective policies promise students the right to free speech. But a variety of other speech codes at Tufts — like its policies on email usage and sexual misconduct, as well as a bias incident reporting system that encourages students to anonymously report each other — render a wide swath of non-criminal speech off-limits. And these speech codes are being enforced.
https://www.thefire.org/fire-investigative-report-alarming-free-speech-climate-at-tufts-a-warning-to-students-at-all-private-campuses-video/
