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Title: Ten Worst Colleges for Free Speech
Post by: roo_ster on March 04, 2015, 11:45:39 AM
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-worst-colleges-and-universities-for-free-speech/article/2561011

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-lukianoff/10-worst-for-free-speech_b_6769564.html

http://www.thefire.org/fire-announces-10-worst-colleges-free-speech-2014/

Quote from: http://www.thefire.org/fire-announces-10-worst-colleges-free-speech-2014/
PHILADELPHIA, March 2, 2015—More than half of America’s top colleges maintain speech codes that blatantly violate First Amendment standards. But every year the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) takes a closer look at the previous year’s incidents of college censorship to determine the nation’s 10 worst abusers of student and faculty free speech rights.

This year’s list of the 10 worst colleges for free speech—published with detailed descriptions at The Huffington Post—includes many public colleges or universities bound by the First Amendment. Some of them, on the other hand, are private colleges that, though not required by the Constitution to respect student and faculty rights, nonetheless promise to do so. Two of the institutions listed aren’t colleges but still deserve inclusion for the profound effect they had on campus expression throughout the country last year. This year’s list features:

    Brandeis University
    California State University, Fullerton
    Chicago State University
    Georgetown University
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    University of Iowa
    Marquette University
    Modesto Junior College (Modesto, Calif.)
    Kansas Board of Regents
    U.S. Department of Education


See details at the huffpost linky.

What can you expect from stalinist petri dishes?

No reason the taxpayer-supported colleges deserve taxpayer support when they propagandize against the taxpaying classes and impose stalinist speech codes.  I say withdraw the support until they get in line. 

Heck, withdraw the support until they cut their admin by 50% and impose state level law mandating that admin costs and growth will be some smaller percentage of the budget.  The grown of admin has been in the driver's seat of the post-secondary cost explosion.

Another cost-saving measure could be to limit admissions to those ready for college-level work.  Which would eliminate ~50% of admissions.  many fewer remedial and entry-level courses would result in fewer tenured radicals sucking on the gov't teat.














Title: Re: Ten Worst Colleges for Free Speech
Post by: vaskidmark on March 04, 2015, 04:16:53 PM
http://www.thefire.org/spotlight/

Find "your" school.

Compare their rating with the "top 10" .

If I got my list right, Historically Black Colleges/Universities come in red more often than yellow or green.

Also, I wonder how University of Virginia is going to be ranked after the recent kerfuffle caused by Rolling Stone.  Or how any college/university is going to be ranked if they cave in to the DoJ "guidelines" re: sexual assault on campus.

stay safe.