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This year, the Washington Examiner started a series on campus speech codes, whether they call them that or not, but the news is mostly good.

A joint study conducted by Gallup, the Knight Foundation, and other foundations recently surveyed American college students on the First Amendment, otherwise known as the freedom of speech.

As FIRE reported, Purdue is now the leader in promoting free speech on their campus: The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is pleased to announce that Purdue University has earned FIRE’s highest, “green light” rating for free speech. With help from FIRE, Purdue revised its speech-related policies to comply with the First Amendment. […]

As the College Fix reported: More than 100 colleges and universities are flouting a deadline given to them by the chairman of a powerful congressional committee, regarding their commitment to freedom of expression. At least some of them are keeping the committee waiting because they are asking for advice from a First Amendment watchdog on […]

The College Fix reported on a recent Foundation for Individual Rights in Education report: According to the foundation’s report, “Spotlight on Speech Codes 2015: The State of Free Speech on Our Nation’s Campuses,” nearly 55 percent of the 437 universities analyzed have “policies that clearly and substantially prohibit protected speech,” earning the group’s “Red Light” […]

It is a good intention, to prevent anti-Semitic speech on University of California campuses, but it is unconstitutional to have such speech codes.

A veteran professor has come up with an objection to new campus sex codes that may not have occurred to other critics of the recent policies who are fixated on the First Amendment. “You have to feel a little sorry these days for professors married to their former students,” Laura Kipnis writes in The Chronicle […]

University of Chicago professor Eric Posner claimed university students need restrictions on free speech. What is this, the Soviet Union?

George Mason University, out in suburban northern Virginia, isn’t the only university to have speech code issues on campus. Check out this op-ed by Todd Zywicki on the issue of speech codes at universities.

Accuracy in Academia has signed onto a letter to the U. S. Department of Education urging the agency not to encourage more restrictive speech codes at colleges and universities.

The federal government is poised to adopt or at least preside over something politically correct college administrators have yet to achieve—national speech codes.

You would think that a policy that both liberals and conservatives find abhorrent would cease to exist.