The Free Speech Problem is Real Week in Education

MIKE LACHANCE SEP 9, 2023 8:00 AM

We have been covering free speech in education for years. There have been some improvements, but in other ways things have gotten worse.

• FIRE Ranks Harvard Dead Last for Free Speech
• New Mexico Legislators Petition to Silence Matt Walsh and Other Conservatives
• University Rescinds ‘Unconstitutional’ Security Fee Charged to Conservative Group That Hosted Michael Knowles

It’s not as much of an issue for the radical left, however.

• Self-Proclaimed Marxist Library Association President: ‘Libraries Need to be Sites of Socialist Organizing’
• UC-Berkeley Prof Praises Transgender Agenda for ‘Frightening’ People

Watch Professor Jacobson’s latest media appearance.

• VIDEO: The ‘Reign of Terror’ on Campuses Post-George Floyd and the Threat of AI Internalized Bias

This sort of thing happens because people believe they can get away with it.

• Unions Advised Teachers How To Hide Gender Surveys from Colorado School District and Parents

Guess where all of this is headed.

• NY Times Magazine: ‘Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College’
• Another Survey Highlights Americans’ Doubts About Higher Education

People are starting to take notice.

• North Carolina State Stops Distributing Welcome Packet With Info on Group Sex After Parents Push Back
• Jonathan Turley Calls Out Harvard’s Laurence Tribe as the Democrats’ ‘Most Wrong Legal Expert’
• Nebraska Implements ‘Women’s Bill of Rights,’ Banning Men From Female Sports and Locker Rooms

Maybe we should be more focused on the basics.

• College Students Are Struggling With Basic Math and Professors Are Blaming the Pandemic
• Caltech Drops Calculus, Chemistry, and Physics Course from Admissions Requirement

Campus crime blotter.

• Ohio State University Student Robbed at Gunpoint Outside Dorm
• Two Burglaries Reported Near Boston University Campus on Move-in Day

What an incredibly bad idea.

• University of Pennsylvania Prof Thinks We Should Choose Political Leaders by Lottery

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