America s Institutions of Higher Indoctrination: A New Study Shows the Continued Decline of Free Speech on Campuses – The Messenger

Harvard University has long prided itself on being the place for curve-breakers, a super-achieving university that leaves other schools as distant seconds. The recent ranking of schools by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) on free speech in higher education certainly fulfilled that reputation, but not in the way most would want. 

Harvard was ranked dead last as the country s most hostile school for free speech. It received a score of 0.000 and even that was subject to grade inflation; its actual score was -10.69. 

Harvard s dismal ranking is of little surprise to most of us in the free-speech community. While Harvard recently committed itself to “having a conversation” about free speech, any conversation may prove strikingly one-sided. A Harvard Crimson study found that most departments had effectively purged their ranks of conservatives. Only 1.46% of the faculty now self-identifies as conservative, while 82.46% of faculty surveyed identify as liberal or very liberal.  This, in a country that has split down the middle between Republicans and Democrats.

via themessenger.com

Jonathan Turley.