The GOP should take this up as a national campaign and distinguish themselves as the free speech party.
Campus Reform reports:
EXCLUSIVE: SD lawmakers mount free speech pressure campaign
South Dakota lawmakers in recent months have pressured the state’s Board of Regents (BOR) to implement policies geared toward fostering free expression on college campuses.
Letters...
Lisa Daftari is a FOX News guest, writer, and speaker who focuses on anti-radicalism. She is an Iranian-born Jew and an alumna of Rutgers University, where she was scheduled to give a talk on October 16th. Some students objected for entirely predictable reasons and the school caved.
All public schools which try to designate certain areas for free speech must be called out.
The College Fix reports:
Texas public university has five ‘designated free speech areas’ on campus
Texas Woman’s University, a public university located in Denton, Texas, denotes certain areas of its campus where students are permitted to exercise their...
The message is that students are trying to be protected from free speech rather than using it or hearing it.
The College Fix reports:
Free speech on campus has become weaponized, Congress told
A congressional hearing addressed the status of the First Amendment on college campuses on Wednesday, and witnesses argued that students are...
Free speech zones are a joke. Why are colleges even allowed to use them?
Campus Reform reports:
College clarifies free speech zone policy amid mounting pressure
A community college in Texas clarified its policy on free speech zones after more than three months of questioning from concerned students and Campus Reform.
Lone Star College-Tomball, a...
It’s very encouraging that members of the Trump administration are addressing this issue.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Betsy DeVos accurately diagnoses higher ed’s free speech problem
On the occasion of Constitution Day, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos delivered her first major address on free speech in higher education – and she didn’t hold back.
In her...
Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to fire Germany’s intelligence chief Hans-Georg Maassen after he refuted her claims of right-wing “mobs” chasing migrants during the late August demonstrations in the eastern German city of Chemnitz, German newspaper Die Welt reported.
“We have video recordings of [people] hunting down others, of unruly assemblies, and...
Free speech advocates are worried about these policies but the left has brought us to this point. How else do you deal with this problem?
Campus Reform reports:
College’s ‘protest guidelines’ concern free speech advocates
The University...
The deplatforming of Alex Jones by social media sites should disturb you whether you are a fan or not. I’ve never been a fan of Jones or his Infowars site. I’ve never gotten past the time Jones led an angry mob against Michelle Malkin in 2008. Still, if this can be...
This doesn’t sound like a very fair trade. Why is free speech always such an issue in higher education?
The College Fix reports:
University demands professor sign away his free-speech rights if he wants his job back
Ken Peterson thought he was in the clear after winning an appeal of his dismissal by Dixie...
It’s amazing that something as seemingly simple as free speech continues to be an issue on college campuses.
National Review reports:
Despite North Carolina’s Campus-Free Speech Act, UNC Continues to have Problems
North Carolina was...
Can we make this a national policy, somehow?
The Blaze reports:
Professor’s contract with students: ‘Drop the class immediately if you are triggered by free speech’
A professor has taken a novel approach when it comes to dealing with the increasing number of students railing against and even shutting down academic ideas they don’t...
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has come to his aid.
The College Fix reports:
Professor who complained about white people on Facebook loses appeal with Rutgers
A controversial Rutgers University professor who wrote Facebook posts complaining about gentrification in his neighborhood was found guilty of violating university policies late last month.
His...
In early May 2018, we covered a lawsuit brought by a new group called Speech First challenging U. Michigan’s Bias Response Teams, Lawsuit: U. Michigan speech code and Bias Response Team “profoundly chill free speech and open discourse”.
Alex Jones was deplatformed on at least four major social media platforms in a day: Facebook, Apple, YouTube and Spotify.
The Guardian reports:
You can have all the free speech you want, just fill out these forms and wait two business days.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Code Red: Speech only approved after ‘assessment’ at University of Miami
The University of Miami, a private university in Coral Gables, Fla., holds a red speech code rating, according to the...
This is happening at a public school, so technically, the entire campus is a free speech zone.
Campus Reform reports:
College hangs up on student asking about free speech policy
School officials at a public community college in Texas are refusing to clarify the details of its controversial free speech policy despite repeated...
