Free speech ratings at college campuses

[Mick1]

FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) just publicized their fourth annual rankings of 248 universities, ranking them on defending and sustaining the individual rights of all Americans to free speech and free thought. This was derived from over 55,000 student responses at the 254 colleges (six fundamentalist Christian universities; e.g., Pepperdine and BYU, were not included in the overall rankings).

Of note:

– Harvard ranked dead last (least open to free speech) with a 0.00 score out of 100. Actually, technically they scored a -10.89, but the official scale starts at 0.00.

– Two Jesuit colleges, Georgetown (#245) and Fordham (#244), were in the bottom five, and Santa Clara ranked poorly as well (#192 of the 248 colleges). The “Free-est” religious university was DePaul at #67, a Catholic/Vincent order school which mentions dialogue repeatedly as a fundamental commitment.

– Princeton was #187 (second best among Ivies, actually), right behind San Jose State at #186.

– The other Ivies were Cornell (#212), Columbia (#214), Yale (#234), Dartmouth (#241), Penn (#247), and Harvard (#248). Best score among Ivies, shockingly, was Brown (#69 overall).

– Stanford was #207.

– UC scores were all over the map. “Freest” was Merced (#61), UC-San Diego (#125), Riverside (#126), Berkeley (#147 – so much for free speech…), Irvine (#150), UCLA (#169), UC-SB (#173), UC-Davis (#237). UC-Santa Cruz not on the list.

– Other Pac-12 schools were Oregon State (#4), Colorado (#10), Arizona State (#77), Arizona (#84), Oregon (#143), Washington State (#151), U of Washington (#178), Utah (#181)

https://www.thefire.org/

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[Brix]

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[Legend]

Here’s what I think:

The closer your institution is to the globalist agenda, the less free speech.  So, it stands to reason that Harvard, which is the most globalist of globalist institutions by virtue of being possibly the best college in the world, is the least free because it actively courts people from countries (China) that are not free.

Oregon State, on the other hand, probably serves and graduates students to serve largely American interests.  Therefore its hierarchy isn’t handcuffed by the globalist anti-freedom movement.

One man’s guess.

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[Neodymium60]

Good guess.  I agree. But is does not explain the place at the other end of Mass Ave that is not as badly infected and even more international.

A few years ago I asked a family member who is an Ivy League professor what has happened to make all of these schools so anti American?  He said that the schools used to be run by the faculty but no more.   Once affirmative action hit the schools the faculty ceded control to the administrators.  From there it fed upon itself.

Once you allow yourself to be labeled a racist, sexist, hater, Nazi, or KKK you lose it all.  It may be that easy.

[Beeg_Dawg]

Another article on 2020 election censorship.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/07/government-censorship-op-targeted-the-federalists-mollie-hemingway-sean-davis-during-2020-election/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=personally_targeted_by_the_us_government&utm_term=2023-11-09

 

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