ACADEMIC FREEDOM

Sep 20 2024POLITICS

Breaking Free from Campus Control

In recent times, higher education has been a focal point for heated debates and laws aimed at regulating campus life. The latest development in this saga is the passage of the GOP's "End Woke Higher Education Act" in the US House. This measure seeks to bar accrediting organizations from requiring colleges and universities to adopt diversity, equity, and inclusion pol...

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Sep 10 2024EDUCATION

Are Elite Universities Stifling Free Thought? A Critical Look at Campus Speech

Are our most prestigious universities becoming hotbeds of censorship? A recent survey by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) suggests that might be the case. The survey found that some of the nation's most elite schools, including Columbia, NYU, Penn, and Harvard, rank at the very bottom for free speech. This begs the question: are these insti...

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