Supporting Students Free Expression

By The Editorial Board
Wall Street Journal Opinion

Excerpt: Bureaucracies pushing the political DEI agenda—diversity, equity and inclusion—have proliferated in higher education, becoming speech censors and racial hiring enforcers. The bullying has courted a needed backlash, and the latest comes from Texas.

By Sydney Shuler
Daily Progress

Excerpt: The University of Virginia already tracks the gender and race of its students, but some of the newest members on the school’s governing body want to know why it isn’t tracking their religious and political affiliations as well.

By Amanda Nordstrom
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

Excerpt: Graduation time used to be known as “disinvitation season” around FIRE’s offices, as we prepared for the yearly increase in demands by faculty members and students to revoke the invitations of guest speakers — often commencement and keynote speakers — because of something the speaker did, said, or believes.

By Michelle Bocanegra
Gothamist

Excerpt: Faculty at the CUNY School of Law are calling on the university’s administration to retract a statement characterizing a student’s graduation address as “hate speech,” following criticism of her speech as antisemitic.

By Piper Hutchinson
Louisiana Illuminator

Excerpt: The president of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System did not mince words Wednesday while testifying on a resolution that requested all public schools in the state — K-12 and colleges — submit reports on programs and activities related to diversity, equity and inclusion, critical race theory and social emotional learning.

By Holly Lawford-Smith
Quillette

Excerpt: Kathleen Stock tweeted recently that ‘Many philosophers have existed only in their own minds, but I think I may well be the first to exist only in other people’s.’ She was responding to the latest outbreak of leftist moral panic about gender-critical feminism, in this case a series of actions taken by student activists at the University of Oxford in protest against her being invited to participate in a debate hosted by the Oxford Union—which describes itself as ‘the world’s most prestigious debating society’.