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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsFIRE's Annual Report on Campus Free Speech
By Ed Brayton
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has issued its annual report on free speech on college campuses and it contains a little good news.
FIRE's fourth annual report on campus speech codes, Spotlight on Speech Codes 2010: The State of Free Speech on Our Nation's Campuses reports on policies at 375 of the largest and most prestigious American colleges and universities. FIRE found that while the percentage of public campuses that unconstitutionally restrict student speech dropped from 77 percent to 71 percent, the percentage of private campuses that similarly restrict freedom of speech has risen by 3 points from 67 to 70 percent.Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 16, 2009 (boomark / email).
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