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78% of college students reported they favor an open learning environment that includes offensive views. While a majority of U.S. adults (56%) believe their freedom of speech is secure, their confidence greatly lags behind college students (73%).
When asked how they rated the importance of free speech in a democracy, 74% of college presidents responded "Extremely important", and none responded "Not that important". However, 56% of students responded "Extremely important" and 1% responded "Not that Important".
As part of the 2018 ACE survey, 100% of college presidents responded that free speech was one of the following: "Extremely important" (74%), "Very important" (24%) or "Moderately important" (2%). 99% of students chose one of those same options.
According to an American Council on Education survey, 58% of students felt their counterparts at other colleges are less adept at listening to other voices. However, they felt students at their own colleges are doing a good job of seeking out and listening to different viewpoints
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The Foundation for Individual Rights (FIRE) survey found that 60% of students reported feeling they could not express an opinion because of how students, a professor, or their administration would respond.
A total of 21% of Ivy League students expressed some level of acceptance for violence in these cases—with 1% saying it was “always” acceptable, 3% saying “sometimes” and 17% saying “rarely"—compared with 18% overall and 15% among students in the Southeastern Conference.
37% of Ivy League students say that shouting down a speaker is “always” or “sometimes” acceptable, compared to 26% of students not enrolled at Ivy League colleges. When it comes to removing flyers, the figures are 37% to 28%.
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Allison Stranger, a professor at Middlebury College, was injured in a melee following the campus appearance of Charles Murray, who co-wrote The Bell Curve—a book discussing racial differences in intelligence. While protesting against Murray, some students attacked Stranger.
People blocked from speaking include Janet Mock (TV host and transgender rights activist) at Brown University, Ben Shapiro (Jewish conservative) at California State University, and Nicholas Dirks (Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley) at his own institution.
In response to questions asking whether respondents support a ban on speech offensive to different groups (e.g. white people, Muslims, the police), two age groups (18-24 and 25-35 year olds) supported banning offensive speech 44% and 43% of the time respectively.