The 10 worst colleges for free speech: 2018

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The 10 worst colleges for free speech: 2018

By FIRE February 12, 2018

Every year, FIRE chooses the 10 worst colleges for free speech — and unfortunately, 2017 left us with plenty of options: Campuses were rocked by violent mob censorship, monitored by bias response teams, plagued by free speech zones, and beset by far too many disinvitation attempts. Although the number of colleges with the most restrictive speech codes has continued to decline, 90 percent of schools still maintain codes that either clearly restrict or could too easily be used to restrict free speech.

Today, we present our 2018 list of the 10 worst colleges for free speech. As always, our list is presented in no particular order, and it includes both public and private institutions. Public colleges and universities are bound by the First Amendment; the private colleges on this list, though not required by the Constitution to protect student and faculty speech rights, explicitly promise to do so.

https://www.thefire.org/the-10-worst-colleges-for-free-speech-2018/

[Fishrrman]

The list:

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.)
Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.)  (surprise!)
Los Angeles Community College District (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Fordham University (New York, N.Y.)
Evergreen State College (Olympia, Wash.)  (who woulda guessed it?)
Albion College (Albion, Mich.)
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)
University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, Calif.)
Texas State University (San Marcos, Texas)
Lifetime Censorship Award: DePaul University (Chicago, Ill.)

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The list:

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.)

Shirley Ann Jackson lives like a queen while the once fine engineering school she administers goes to pot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Ann_Jackson

[Gefn]

Thanks for posting this.

The two schools that accepted me for graduate studies this summer aren't on the list but when I looked them up on the website they both said they scored high against free speech.

[Sanguine]

Texas State University