ACADEMIA HAS A DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PROBLEM: UNC professor speaks out: Conservative students silenced, too many peers biased. “A University of North Carolina Chapel Hill professor said he’s found that conservative students are overwhelmingly afraid to speak up about and defend their beliefs in class for fear of bullying from peers and being marked down on grades by professors. And what’s more, Business Professor Michael Jacobs said too many of his peers are content to teach only one side of the issue, almost in an attempt to convince rather than educate.”