A 2021 law required a survey taken at Florida’s 12 public universities to monitor freedom of speech and diversity.
Well, only 2% of the students and 10% of the employees who received the survey filled it out.
That’s 8,835 out of 368,000 students and 9,238 employees out of 98,000.
In the first ever “intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity” survey taken at Florida’s 12 public universities, 61% of students agreed that their campuses provided an environment for free expression of ideas, opinions and beliefs.Asked to share their political leanings, the 36% of employees who identified as moderates made up the largest single group. And a plurality of students — 45% — said they did not feel intimidated about sharing opinions in front of their professors, compared to 28% who said they did.—About 25% of the students who participated agreed that professors or instructors use class time to “express their own social or political beliefs without objectively discussing opposing social or political beliefs,” but more than 50% disagreed with that statement.Students were more split on whether they felt comfortable speaking up about controversial topics. About 44% said they were comfortable and 35% said they weren’t. Similarly, 41% agreed that their campuses did a good job of promoting differing viewpoints, while 27% disagreed.In addition to the 36% of employees who identified as moderates, 21% said they were conservatives and 17% said they were liberal.
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