A new survey of 461 colleges and universities around the country found that roughly one in three schools still maintain policies that drastically limit free speech on campus.
According to an annual study conducted by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), 32.3 percent of colleges and universities surveyed “received FIRE’s lowest, red light rating for maintaining speech codes that clearly and substantially restrict freedom of speech.”
The “Spotlight on Speech Codes” report, however, notes that the percentage of red light institutions has been consistently shrinking throughout the last decade, pointing out that “This year’s figure is seven percentage points lower than last year and almost 42 percentage points lower than in FIRE’s 2009 report.”
Education, politics, and anything else that catches my attention.
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Slow But Steady Progress
What's the word that means slow but unstoppable? I'll know it when I hear it. Anyway, that word seems to apply here:
relentless?
ReplyDeleteNo, it's a little more esoteric than that. I keep thinking "leviathan" but that's not it.
ReplyDeleteI have an image in my mind; I think it comes from learning the origins of the word I'm looking for. I'm seeing a large, stone statue being moved on a cart. Slow, steady, and unstoppable.