REPORT: Restrictive Campus Speech Policies See Record Decline
By FIRE December 12, 2016
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 12, 2016—This year, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) saw an unprecedented decline in the percentage of universities maintaining written policies that severely restrict students’ free speech rights. This is the ninth year in a row that the percentage has dropped.
Released today, Spotlight on Speech Codes 2017: The State of Free Speech on Our Nation’s Campuses reports on written policies at 449 of America’s largest and most prestigious colleges and universities, all of which are accessible online in FIRE’s searchable Spotlight speech code database. FIRE rates schools as “red light,” “yellow light,” or “green light” institutions based on how much, if any, protected speech their policies restrict. The report’s findings were first featured in an editorial in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal.
Major findings from Spotlight on Speech Codes 2017 include:
https://www.thefire.org/report-restrictive-campus-speech-policies-see-record-decline/
