The @TheFIREorg "Ten Worst Colleges for Free Speech" for 2020 has arrived: https://www.thefire.org/10-worst-colleges-for-free-speech-2020/ …
Unsurprisingly, @Harvard is still on the list (they'll probably be top 10 forever), but note the surprise Lifetime Censorship Award win for @rpi!
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Replying to @cmuratori @TheFIREorg and
wait, not a single christian university on the list? You'd expect them to be up there.
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Replying to @nraynaud @TheFIREorg and
They have very stiff competition from secular universities to get top ten. There are _lots_ of red-code places on the general list, if you want more:https://www.thefire.org/resources/spotlight/?x=&speech_code=Red&y=&institution_type=&speech_code_advanced=Red&y_advanced=#search-results …
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Replying to @cmuratori @nraynaud and
Their list of schools is rather incomplete. My undergrad alma mater, a Christian school where you could get booted for being gay or having premarital sex (among many other things) isn't on the list at all.
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Replying to @ProbablyMonty @cmuratori and
Tons of other schools are missing, seemingly most smaller schools. But the list isn't at all devoid of small schools.
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Replying to @ProbablyMonty @cmuratori and
After further reading, I'm almost positive those types of schools would get "Warning" labels instead of "Red" marks, because they don't advertise free speech as a primary value in the first place. (Omission of small schools seems understandable; there are tons.)
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Replying to @ProbablyMonty @nraynaud and
Well, also, that particular list is for free speech specifically. There are other "freedom" issues that are not speech-related, such as if a school _only_ admitted Catholics, that is not a free speech problem per se, but it clearly has other implications for "freedom" in general.
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But in general, I don't know that FIRE pays much attention to private schools which _say_ they do not permit speech up front, because then it is clear to prospective students. They are more concerned with universities that claim to support freedom of speech and then don't.
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Replying to @cmuratori @nraynaud and
Right. I think that's the exact distinction between what deserves a warning on their metrics and what deserves a red score.
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