Free Speech

Colleges and universities are exploring curricular and co-curricular settings to encourage critical thinking, free speech and respectful disagreement among students.

Another guide labeling higher education institutions has entered the arena. This one’s metrics include graduation rates, ROI … and DEI.

Joseph Edelman resigned over a looming vote to divest from companies linked to the war in Gaza. He called the vote, spurred by student pressure, “morally reprehensible.”

A recent report from FIRE shows that while protests over the Israel-Hamas war are driving campus conversations around free speech, administrators and students aren’t always on the same page about how to respond.

Multiple institutions agreed to consider divestment from weapons manufacturers and others profiting off the war in Gaza. Only a handful have moved toward doing so.