Posted on 09/12/2022 4:15:50 AM PDT by DoodleBob
If you like free speech, don’t go to Columbia.
A leading free speech organization ranked the best and worst college campuses for freedom of speech and New York’s top school, Columbia University, came in dead last.
On Wednesday, The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) released its third annual College Free Speech Rankings for the 2022-2023 school year. In partnership with College Pulse, they surveyed nearly 45,000 students from more than 200 colleges — making it the largest ever survey about campus expression.
The University of Chicago came first for campus free speech, scoring 77.92 points out of 100. Four public universities rounded out the top five: Kansas State University, Purdue University, Mississippi State University and Oklahoma State University.
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Meanwhile, Columbia University came last and was the only school to be slammed with a Speech Climate rating of “abysmal.” Scoring just 9.91 out of 100, New York City’s Ivy was dragged down by its high number of scholars who were sanctioned for expressing their views. Between 2019-2020, seven academics faced investigation or disciplinary action for tweets or comments deemed unacceptable. Columbia did not immediately respond to The Post for comment.
The University of Pennsylvania was second to last, with a score of 14.32 out of 100. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Georgetown University and Skidmore College also ranked in the bottom five.
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A shocking 63 percent of students said they fear their reputation will be damaged if they speak their minds, and nearly a quarter report that they are often self-censoring. And while only 13 percent of liberal students say they “often” cannot express their opinions freely, nearly half of conservative students say the same. The issues students feel the most discomfort expressing include abortion, racial inequality and vaccine mandates followed by transgender issues, gun control, mask mandates and police misconduct.
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And at 63,000 a year is the most expensive school in the country. That’s just tuition.
1960s the birth of the Free Speech movement on campuses across the nation by the same leftest that now shut down any form of “speech” they don’t like.
With the left it is never what they say it is, it is about control.
That’s where all the pukes go for their ‘journalism’ training.
The utter stupidity of such administrators is breathtaking.
A degree from Columbia is a huge red flag for any industry unless the employer is looking for an employee who will to lie through their teeth.
Yet these people pay to go to school at such horrible places. I just can’t fathom the stupidity of the leftist mind.
Of course that's true. They want power. They don't care about anything else, though some of them probably have deluded themselves into believing that they do.
They don't care about violence, racism, equality, tolerance, or any of the issues they claim to champion. Such claims are merely tools to convince the gullible and the useful idiots to help them seize more and more power.
Leftists regularly resort to violence to promote their agenda.
They are utterly intolerant.
They would unhesitating enslave anyone who disagrees with them if they could get away with it, or ship them off to death camps.
Abolishing the USA and all the blessings it bestows is one of their main objectives because the freedom, prosperity, and all the promises are obstacles to their unquenchable lust for power--and more power.
The link to the list doesn’t work.
I lost all respect for Columbia when it permitted and encouraged slander against the male student with probably false claims of rape by a scorned woman — and encouraged students to walk around with mattresses as part of the harassment campaign.
Columbia also “Admits Submitting Incorrect Data That Goosed Its U.S. News Ranking To #2.”
When I attended college in the 1960’s free speech was what it was all about. And there was a war going on.
Their delay in pulling a prize for a made up anti-gun narrative was it for me. I think mine was first?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arming_America
It took quite a lot of pressure on Columbia, well after it was known that Bellesiles was a liar, to get them to pull the Bancroft Prize they had awarded him.
And I just looked, mine was 2001 time frame, yours 2014-17.
Uuuuh . . . It’s the taxpayer that’s paying for those people to go to such a horrible place.
Especially don’t ask anything about proving Obama really attended.
“That’s where all the pukes go for their ‘journalism’ training.”
Many decades ago, when I was in high school, I attended a journalism conference at Columbia University. It was a very exciting time for a high school newspaper editor.
That was back when a newspaper had news articles covering who, what, when, where, and sometimes why. No personal opinion was permitted in a news article. Editorials and opinion pieces were clearly identified with the author’s name, unlike almost all straight news stories.
It was that way 40 years ago when I was there.
It was that way before that, and since.
toe the line or get zotted.
for many it was “Duck & Graduate”
But they once did have the longest losing streak in college football history
And just like that, their "student loans" are forgiven.
Re my tag line.
Oh I think my alma mater Fordham can make a run at being Number 1.
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