Front Page: Bias Response Ream Defeated at University of Texas–Austin. Although all people of goodwill abhor racial prejudice and bias, the popular practice of deploying “bias response teams” is a step backward, inhibiting the discussions that ultimately move us forward. On December 22, 2020, the University of Texas–Austin (UT) reached a settlement with Speech First to disband its Campus Climate Response Team (CCRT). The student group sued the university in 2018 to prohibit enforcement of policies that discouraged conservative and libertarian students from discussing controversial public policy issues on campus.
Stanford University has adjusted its “Protected Identity Harm” reporting system after widespread criticism that it ...
Free Expression and the Task of American Colleges and Universities There are certain truths of American political life that antedate even the Founding and are as important for our age as they were for ages past. Among these are that demagogues hold most sway over the ignorant, that a free people must be an informed […]
The Honorable José A. Cabranes, United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, warns of the destructive synergy of non-academic administrators and student activists on freedom of expression at America’s colleges and universities. He gave this speech upon accepting ACTA’s 2019 Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to […]
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