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Reports

Silence in the Classroom: The 2024 ��ݮ��ƵAPP�� Faculty Survey Report

New ��ݮ��ƵAPP�� survey finds faculty members are four times more likely to self-censor than at the height of the Cold War and McCarthyism.

College Free Speech Rankings

2025 Spotlight - Columbia University

College Free Speech Rankings

2025 Spotlight - Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt was penalized in this year’s rankings for removing a proposed BDS amendment from the Student Government’s funding referendum before it could be voted on.

College Free Speech Rankings

2025 Spotlight - University of Texas at Austin

UT Austin’s overall score was penalized for the outcomes of seven different speech controversies that have occurred since 2020.

College Free Speech Rankings

2025 Spotlight - University of Southern California

USC was involved in six speech controversies over the last five years, responding in a speech- protective manner in none of them.

College Free Speech Rankings

2025 Spotlight - University of South Carolina

University of South Carolina's ranking increased dramatically because of its policy improvements, becoming a “green light” institution this year.

College Free Speech Rankings

2025 Spotlight - Tulane University

There are substantial differences in self-censorship rates among liberal and conservative students at Tulane University.

College Free Speech Rankings

2025 Spotlight - Portland State University

Portland State was penalized in this year’s rankings for a 2021 incident in which administrators filed a copyright strike against Professor Bruce Gilley.

College Free Speech Rankings

2025 Spotlight - MIT

Compared with its peer institutions, MIT ranks near the middle — better than Stanford, Penn, and Harvard but behind Carnegie Mellon and California Institute of Technology.

College Free Speech Rankings

2025 Spotlight - Indiana University

Less than half of Indiana University students say they are “very” or “somewhat” comfortable expressing their views on controversial political topics.

College Free Speech Rankings

2025 Spotlight - Emory University

Emory University ranks 230 when it comes to comfort expressing ideas, with students feel less comfortable when publicly disagreeing with a professor about a controversial political topic.