In Constitution Day Speech, Betsy DeVos Says 'Government Muscle' Is Not the Answer to the Campus Free Speech Problem
"Solutions won't come from new laws from Washington, D.C., or from a speech police at the U.S. Department of Education."
"Solutions won't come from new laws from Washington, D.C., or from a speech police at the U.S. Department of Education."
The Office for Civil Rights decision is in some ways opaque and equivocal, but the message to universities seems pretty powerful -- such decisions about enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights of Act may turn on whether the university tolerates certain criticisms of Israel that OCR has now labeled "anti-Semitic."
The weird interrelationship between harassment law and campus free speech
If you believe that unconstitutional speech codes are a scandal at public universities, two recent cases should worry you.
"It was explained to them why this is hate speech and that it is offensive and triggering."
A very brief history of the rise and fall (and potential rise again) of campus speech codes. [UPDATE: Very sorry, at first accidentally labeled this as my post -- it's actually Greg Lukianoff's & Adam Goldstein's.]
At behest of a feminist professor, an academic journal's board reportedly threatened to "harass the journal until it died."
Campus mental health, freedom of speech, and government policy.
There is no "clearly established" First Amendment rights of public university professional school students to engage in such speech, a federal court holds.
The top-paid OSU diversity czar makes $265,000.
The policy -- here, applied to someone passing out religious valentines -- also bans "signs ... with offensive content," and more generally limits even nonoffensive signs and leafleting to a narrow "free speech zone."
Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff explain how "good intentions and bad ideas" have made young people super-fragile-and how to make things better.
Plus: Why Jordan Peterson may be right about postmodern neo-Marxism.
Uncensored author and new college grad Zachary R. Wood explains why his generation is so scared of viewpoint diversity.
A judge sides with a Brown University student who says the Title IX process was unfair and discriminatory.
"Okay, officially, I now hate white people" is a gross statement that deserves First Amendment protection.
#MeToo madness: it's wrong to use Title IX, a feminist tool, "to take down a feminist."
Daniele Struppa says progressives who would deny money simply because of who gives it pose "a grave threat to academic freedom."
"Trigger warnings may inadvertently undermine some aspects of emotional resilience."
Marquette is ordered to reinstate John McAdams.
Deb Mashek explains why intellectual diversity can't be optional if we're serious about higher education.
President David Cole says guidelines "are explicitly designed to help affiliates and national staff think through various factors in case selection decisions."
"Our defense of speech may have a greater or lesser harmful impact on the equality and justice work to which we are also committed."
Peterson: "SJWs" evolved from Marxism.
Left-wing critics try to silence the University of Toronto professor.
A day after DOJ joined free speech lawsuit, UM agreed to change policy that said "the most important indication of bias is your own feelings."
"The United States has a significant interest in the vigilant protection of constitutional freedoms in institutions of higher learning."
"Slowly, we will continue to crush the Left's will to resist, as they will crack under pressure."
Conservatives want to hold the left to the Roseanne standard.
A new Vice feature by Michael Moynihan highlights not just disillusioned comics but campus bookers ready to "pull the microphone" from performers who use language deemed intolerant.
"You have to stand proudly for the national anthem," Trump says, "or you shouldn't be playing."
Free extra credit to "encourage female students to go [in]to information sciences."
[UPDATE: The university is now reported (as of Friday, May 25) to be saying that no investigation is taking place, and that the original student newspaper account saying that there was such an investigation was mistaken; but the university hadn't responded to FIRE's earlier queries about the matter, and it hadn't responded to my query before I had to put up my post.]
"'Very liberal' students are nearly four times more likely than moderate and conservative students to favor prohibiting some types of speech."
The Harvard psychologist splits the difference between Dr. Pangloss and Pope Francis.
"For the safety of students of color"
New study explores liberal bias of university faculty-it's worse than we thought
Title IX creates a prisoner's dilemma: students have to file sexual misconduct complaints to avoid becoming the accused.
A pox on all the snowflakes
Does this really not violate Title IX?
"A bias response system has no place in America."
"A horrifying and chilling example of political correctness."
Students at an Oregon liberal arts college launch a self-defeating crusade for a more diverse curriculum.
Speakers' free speech rights threatened
"Let's believe what that person said."
Activists who stormed the stage were shocked when alumni in the audience dared to heckle them.
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