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Over 90% of America’s Top Colleges Regulate Campus Free Speech
Posted By Rachel Frommer On December 20, 2017 @ 5:00 am
Over 90 percent of the America's top colleges maintain policies regulating campus free speech, with one third employing severely restrictive policies, according to a study released Tuesday.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) reported in its annual end-of-year analysis on campus speech and harassment policies—what FIRE terms "speech codes"—found that over half of the 461 schools included in FIRE's study continue to use methods that have some "chilling effect" on expression.
URL to article: http://freebeacon.com/culture/90-americas-top-colleges-regulate-campus-free-speech/ (http://freebeacon.com/culture/90-americas-top-colleges-regulate-campus-free-speech/)