Stanford University’s comedy of errors began with a case of censorship so outlandish, it quickly went viral. The "wind of freedom" no longer blows at Stanford University, where a student was investigated for political satire. Stanford University (Stanford, Calif.) Stanford Law student Nicholas Wallace Ladies and gentlemen, here are America’s worst colleges for free speech. Private colleges on this list are not constitutionally required to respect student and faculty speech rights, but explicitly promise to do so. Public colleges and universities are bound by the First Amendment. For that, Yale earned FIRE’s 2022 Lifetime Censorship Award, joining DePaul University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Syracuse University as a recipient of this shameful “honor.”Īs in previous years, FIRE’s 2022 “worst-of-the-worst” list is presented in no particular order, and both public and private colleges are featured. This world-renowned institution, which famously recommitted to freedom of expression and inquiry in 1974, doubled down this year on trampling the rights of students and scholars. This year, we also bestow a special distinction upon Yale University. ![]() The bar for good behavior is, unfortunately, quite low, though we here at FIRE are working every day to raise it. ![]() The colleges you’ll read about below have been steadfast in their refusal to grant students and faculty even the most basic guarantees of freedom or fairness. Since our first list in 2011, FIRE has named and shamed 80 institutions in 33 statesfor actively working to shut down student and faculty speech rights. Some institutions are worse than others, which is why each year for over a decade, FIRE compiles a list of the worst-of-the-worst. There’s no shortage of colleges and universities that will go to great lengths to stifle free speech.
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