ASHE SCHOW: Ten colleges with free speech problems.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has released its annual list of colleges and universities that don’t uphold free speech for their students.

In an article for the Huffington Post, FIRE President and CEO Greg Lukianoff provided specific details as to how each school ended up on the list.

Mount St. Mary’s University, for example, made the list due to the firing of two employees who were critical of the university president’s plan to use a student survey to identify potentially low-performing students to dismiss from the school. After a backlash, the president reinstated the employees, but that has done little to assuage fears of retribution for dissension.

Northwestern University also makes the list for opening up a Title IX investigation against professor Laura Kipnis because she had written an article disagreeing with how universities are handling campus sexual assault. Kipnis was eventually cleared of wrongdoing, but not before witnessing firsthand how the process is used as a weapon. One of the kickers to this story is that in these Title IX investigations, the accused is allowed to bring a “support person” to accompany them during the proceedings, although this person is not allowed to speak. The “support person” who sat in with Kipnis was then accused of violating Title IX because he spoke generally about the process during a Senate meeting.

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