Who are the professors censoring themselves for? Mostly the woke students.
The College Fix reports:
At UMich, nearly half of professors feel pressured to censor themselves: surveyJust over 40 percent of faculty at the University of Michigan said they have either felt pressure to censor course content or speech or have been censored or self-censored, according to a recent Faculty Senate survey.The survey is a follow-up to a similar report in 2025 that found more than half of faculty are “self-censoring” their instruction. The most recent report asked faculty about their experiences with censorship and self-censorship in speech and curriculum since the last survey.Of the more than 700 faculty who answered, 31 percent said they “self-censored” or had their curriculum censored. Another 11 percent said they have “felt pressure” to censor their teaching, but did not act on it.The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs and the Faculty Protections Working Group devised the survey in “light of what we learned” in the 2025 report and “the political challenges that have arisen in the past few months.”The information gathered from the survey, published at the end of March, will be used to “inform faculty governance: how can we advocate for faculty, what types of events can we offer, etc.,” according to the introduction to the survey.The College Fix contacted the Faculty Senate and university media relations several times over the past three weeks, asking for comment on the results of the survey as well as the university’s efforts regarding free speech and faculty. Neither responded.The report did receive attention from one UMich professor online.“About half of the 700+ faculty who responded said they’ve felt pressure to censor teaching. 226 respondents have acceded to this pressure due to fears of the general climate, student retaliation evals etc,” medical school Professor Kristen Collier wrote on X. Collier declined to comment further when contacted by The Fix. The survey included dozens of detailed, anonymous comments about faculty members’ personal experiences as well as the statistics.When asked about the reasons for censorship, professors cited fear due to the general higher education climate as the major reason, including fear of students recording a lecture, bad reviews from students, and student retaliation.
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