That was me in college as well. And it definitely caused me to have to work sometimes several times harder than my liberal classmates for the grade I deserved, but I was incapable of compromising my fundamental values in deference to their "authority." Can't tell you how many times a fellow student approached me following class and said, "wish I'd said that" or "I'm so glad you said what you did because it's what I was thinking."
That often happened while I was in my undergrad classes. I was more open-mouthed then.
This university...I speak, but they are even less tolerant of contrariness. From what I can see, they are even more likely to can you, too. I gotta watch myself, but they certainly know where I stand; I’ve said and written enough on that, lol!
(Even to the point one evening of, I believe, upsetting one prof (who I corrected in class and on paper when she said we live in a “democracy”). I let her and everyone else know, in no uncertain terms, we live in a REPUBLIC, and what that means. She was miffed at my overturning her applecart, I believe.....