OPINION: Free speech, diversity of views critical to quality of education at Wisconsin universities


OPINION: Free speech, diversity of views critical to quality of education at Wisconsin universities


Intellectual and viewpoint diversity must be on an equal plane with all other types of diversity our university system promotes

When you get pushback for wanting to ask others how they feel about their free speech rights that’s a cause for concern.

That was my reaction when, in the spring of 2022, a survey of UW System students’ knowledge of and experience with free speech was cancelled. Apparently, chancellors didn’t want the survey done. In fact, UW-Whitewater Interim Chancellor, James Henderson, resigned in protest. That chancellors could fear credible academic research about students’ free speech experience boggled my mind...

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