Posted on 01/20/2014 3:13:09 PM PST by Kaslin
And that's an improvement. According to a new report released by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a non-profit educational organization, 59 percent of campuses around the country severely restrict free speech. These campuses maintain restrictions on students through speech codes and other policies. Here are the main findings from the report:
59% (58.6%) of the 427 schools surveyed have speech codes that clearly and substantially restrict protected speech. (FIRE labels these “red light” schools.) Another 35.6% have “yellow light” policies that overregulate speech on campus.
This represents a nearly 17% decline in red light schools from six years ago, when policies at 75% of schools seriously restricted student speech.
The percentage of red light public schools, which are legally bound by the First Amendment, continued to drop, from 61.6% last year to 57.6% this year.
The percentage of red light private schools (which promise free speech but do not deliver it) also fell, from 63.4% last year to 61.5% this year.
In more good news, Eastern Kentucky University eliminated all of its speech codes this year, earning FIRE’s highest, “green light,” rating.
"The U.S. Supreme Court has called America's colleges and universities 'vital centers for the Nation's intellectual life.' However, the reality today is that many of these institutions severely restrict free speech and open debate. Speech coeds -- policies prohibiting speech that would, outside the bounds of campus, be protected by the First Amendment -- have been repeatedly struck down by federal and state courts for decades," the executive summary of the report states. "Yet they persist, even in the very jurisdictions where they have been ruled unconstitutional."
Although the speech police on campus still exist, FIRE is hopeful moving forward as some campuses come to their senses to either pull back on speech restrictions or to eliminate them altogether.
“We are heartened to see another drop in the percentage of campuses maintaining restrictive speech codes,” FIRE’s Director of Policy Research Samantha Harris said in a statement. “There is much more work to be done, however, particularly in light of the confusing messages coming from the federal government about the relationship between harassment and free speech. For starters, the Department of Education needs to make clear to universities, once and for all, that prohibiting harassment does not mean restricting protected speech.”
Wherever liberalism and progressives take over - free speech is restricted and eventually dies.
The communists had a saying - “You have plenty of free speech speech, as long as you agree with the party.”
Revolt is coming.
Free speech interferes with pro-big federal government indoctrination.
Liberalism and communism are so week that they can’t withstand freedom of speech. Speaking the truth easily destroys the both of them.
Another good reason for my kid to not go to college.
Now that they control them, they need to shut down all opposition; the very things they protested against in the 60's and 70's. It's how they operate. We all know who "they" are.
Hell does its damage by taking things that heaven created, and using them inappropriately, out of context.
One effect is the dumbing down and twisting of mores. Instead of it being discouraged to advocate for evil, it becomes discouraged to advocate for good.
The bright news here is that God has always backed those who advocate for good. The devil is but a runt in God’s sight. People who stand up for the good may suffer but then God will bless their suffering. They will get rewarded for having been willing to do it.
Academia can certainly no longer be viewed as unalloyed good, if it ever was (and no, it wasn’t, but its vices were different and less notorious).
Wisdom should still apply. Engineers and scientists and doctors have no alternative; however they also are limited in how many hellish humanities they need to steep in on their way. Teach the lad from early on about the Lord and about the victories He works, and you will have worked with God in forming a soldier that will be formidable to these liars.
Obama’s new college standards will make this number go higher again I bet
Thanks for both, Kaslin.
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Posted on 1/20/2014 5:02:29 PM by Kaslin
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Any campus that restricts speech should be banned from having tenured professors.
Excellent point
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