{"id":6812,"date":"2022-09-08T07:40:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T01:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=6812"},"modified":"2022-09-08T07:40:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T01:40:35","slug":"columbia-university-is-worst-college-in-nation-for-free-speech-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/world\/2022\/09\/08\/news\/6812\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia University is worst college in nation for free speech: report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Columbia University came in last in FIRE’s College Free Speech Rankings and was the only school to be slammed with a Speech Climate rating of “abysmal.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON, Broadcasting news corporation : If you like free speech, don\u2019t go to Columbia. A leading free speech organization ranked the best and worst college campuses for freedom of speech and New York\u2019s top school, Columbia University, came in dead last. On Wednesday, The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) released its third annual College Free Speech Rankings for the 2022-2023 school year. In partnership with College Pulse, they surveyed nearly 45,000 students from more than 200 colleges \u2014 making it the largest ever survey about campus expression. The University of Chicago came first for campus free speech, scoring 77.92 points out of 100. Four public universities rounded out the top five: Kansas State University, Purdue University, Mississippi State University and Oklahoma State University. The University of Chicago has been widely celebrated as a champion of free expression since publishing the Chicago Principles in 2014, which stated that, \u201cthe University has a solemn responsibility not only to promote a lively and fearless freedom of debate and deliberation, but also to protect that freedom when others attempt to restrict it.\u201d The principles have since been adopted by dozens of other institutions, including Princeton and Johns Hopkins University.
\nMeanwhile, Columbia University came last and was the only school to be slammed with a Speech Climate rating of \u201cabysmal.\u201d Scoring just 9.91 out of 100, New York City\u2019s Ivy was dragged down by its high number of scholars who were sanctioned for expressing their views. Between 2019-2020, seven academics faced investigation or disciplinary action for tweets or comments deemed unacceptable. Columbia did not immediately respond to The Post for comment. The University of Pennsylvania was second to last, with a score of 14.32 out of 100. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Georgetown University and Skidmore College also ranked in the bottom five.
\n\u201cThe situation for freedom of speech and academic freedom has been in trouble on campus since before FIRE was founded in 1999,\u201d FIRE President and CEO Greg Lukianoff said in a press release. \u201cThat situation has gotten far worse in the last few years.\u201d College students across the nation have made headlines in recent years for shouting down speakers or disinviting them from campus for controversial beliefs. In the report, 62 percent of students said it\u2019s \u201cat least sometimes acceptable\u201d to shout down a speaker, and one in five students said using violence to stop a campus speech is \u201csometimes acceptable.\u201d A shocking 63 percent of students said they fear their reputation will be damaged if they speak their minds, and nearly a quarter report that they are often self-censoring. And while only 13 percent of liberal students say they \u201coften\u201d cannot express their opinions freely, nearly half of conservative students say the same. The issues students feel the most discomfort expressing include abortion, racial inequality and vaccine mandates followed by transgender issues, gun control, mask mandates and police misconduct. \u201cThat so many students are self-silencing and silencing each other is an indictment of campus culture,\u201d said FIRE Senior Researcher Sean Stevens, one of the authors of the report. \u201cHow can students develop their distinct voices and ideas in college if they\u2019re too afraid to engage with each other?\u201d Since launching the rankings three years ago, Stevens said administrators from multiple schools have contacted FIRE for advice on how to improve their rankings and the state of free speech on their campus. He said he hopes his research and advocacy at FIRE will continue to inspire meaningful change. \u201cWe hope that schools will recognize these trends themselves \u2014 or feel some pressure from current students, faculty and alumni \u2014 and make changes if they\u2019re lower in the rankings,\u201d he told The Post. \u201cWe hope this report will be used to push schools to change their policies to foster more open expression on campuses. \u201cWe want to provide information to parents and prospective students deciding on where to go to college,\u201d Stevens added. \u201cIf the ability to express their views and free expression on campus is something that matters to them, these rankings give them information about what campuses might be better for them.\u201d NEWS COLLECTED FROM NEW YORK POST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, Broadcasting news corporation : If you like free speech, don\u2019t go to Columbia. A leading free speech organization ranked the best and worst college campuses for freedom of speech and New York\u2019s top school, Columbia University, came in dead last. On Wednesday, The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) released its third annual …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6814,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812\/revisions\/6814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}