Key:
Pink – Incidents in which a speaker’s invitation was formally rescinded
Blue – Incidents in which a speaker withdrew in the face of protest
Yellow – Incidents in which students or faculty persistently disrupted the speaker, effectively preventing the speaker from conveying his or her message (the “heckler’s veto”)
White – Incidents in which the disinvitation attempt was ultimately unsuccessful
Year | School | Speaker |
2000 | Maris College | Bob Kerrey |
2000 | Old Dominion University | Fred Rogers |
2000 | University of Texas at Austin | Henry Kissinger |
2000 | The George Washington University | Madeline Albright |
2000 | University of California, Berkeley | Madeline Albright |
2000 | Antioch College | Mumia Abu-Jamal |
2001 | Cornell University | Ann Coulter |
2001 | Stanford University | Carly Fiorina |
2001 | Seton Hall University | Delores E. Cross |
2001 | Yale University | George W. Bush |
2002 | Stanford University | Condoleezza Rice |
2002 | James Madison University | Doris Kearns Goodwin |
2002 | University of Delaware | Doris Kearns Goodwin |
2002 | Ohio State University | George W. Bush |
2002 | California State University, Sacramento | Janis Besler Heaphy |
2002 | University of California, Berkeley | Jonny Moseley |
2002 | University of California, Los Angeles | Laura Bush |
2002 | Syracuse University | Rudy Giuliani |
2002 | Harvard University | Tom Paulin |
2002 | Harvard University | Zayed Yasin |
2003 | Georgetown University | Cardinal Francis Arinze |
2003 | Rockford College | Chris Hedges |
2003 | College of the Holy Cross | Chris Matthews |
2003 | Michigan State University | Dan Flynn |
2003 | Saint Louis University | Donald J. Carty |
2003 | Princeton University | Fred Hargadon |
2003 | Guilford College | Howard Coble |
2003 | Saint Joseph’s University | Rick Santorum |
2003 | University of California, Berkeley | Ward Connerly |
2003 | Rutgers University | Natan Sharansky |
2004 | Mount Saint Mary’s College | Alberto Gonzales |
2004 | University of Arizona | Ann Coulter |
2004 | Villanova University | Caroll Spinney (Big Bird) |
2004 | University of Arizona | George W. Bush |
2004 | American University | Michelle Malkin |
2004 | University of Saint Francis | Nancy Snyderman |
2004 | Hamilton College | Susan Rosenberg |
2005 | Butler University | David Horowitz |
2005 | Calvin College | George W. Bush |
2005 | Santa Monica College | Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger |
2005 | Rice University | Michelle Hebl |
2005 | California State University, East Bay | Richard Rodriguez |
2005 | Middlebury College | Rudolph Giuliani |
2005 | New York University | Shirley Tilghman |
2005 | Hamilton College | Ward Churchill |
2005 | Earlham College | William Kristol |
2005 | University of Wisconsin – Whitewater | Ward Churchill |
2005 | Antioch College | Ward Churchill |
2005 | Wheaton College | Ward Churchill |
2005 | Eastern Washington University | Ward Churchill |
2006 | Boston College | Condoleezza Rice |
2006 | Oklahoma State University | George W. Bush |
2006 | Columbia University | Jim Gilchrist |
2006 | Columbia University | John McCain |
2006 | The New School | John McCain |
2006 | Columbia University | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
2006 | Brown University | Nonie Darwish |
2006 | Portland State University | Peter DeFazio |
2006 | Nova Southeastern University | Salman Rushdie |
2006 | Brandeis University | Tony Kushner |
2007 | University of St. Thomas | Archbishop Desmond Tutu |
2007 | Brigham Young University | Dick Cheney |
2007 | Saint Vincent College | George W. Bush |
2007 | Columbia University | Jim Gilchrist |
2007 | Saint Mary’s College | Justice Samuel Alito |
2007 | University of California | Lawrence Summers |
2007 | Regent University | Mitt Romney |
2007 | Harvard University | Robert Trivers |
2007 | College of Saint Mary | Roberta Wilhelm |
2008 | St. Catherine University | Al Franken |
2008 | St. Catherine University | Bay Buchanan |
2008 | University of Georgia | Clarence Thomas |
2008 | Furman University | George W. Bush |
2008 | St. Catherine University | Hillary Clinton |
2008 | Northwestern University | Jeremiah Wright |
2008 | Northwestern School of Law | Jerry Springer |
2008 | Aquinas College | John Corvino |
2008 | The George Washington University | Julian Bond |
2008 | Boston College | Michael Mukasey |
2008 | Washington University in St. Louis | Phyllis Schlafly |
2008 | Smith College | Ryan Sorba |
2008 | University of Nebraska | William Ayers |
2009 | Arizona State University | Barack Obama |
2009 | University of Notre Dame | Barack Obama |
2009 | University of Vermont | Ben Stein |
2009 | King’s College | Bob Casey |
2009 | Saint Louis University | David Horowitz |
2009 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Don Feder |
2009 | Xavier University of Louisiana | Donna Brazile |
2009 | University of California, Los Angeles | James Franco |
2009 | Harvard University | Jim Gilchrist |
2009 | McHenry County College | Marc Falkoff |
2009 | UCLA Anderson School of Management | Meg Whitman |
2009 | University of North Carolina School of Law | Michael Mukasey |
2009 | California Polytechnic State University | Michael Pollan |
2009 | Princeton University | Nonie Darwish |
2009 | University of Massachusetts | Raymond Luc Levasseur |
2009 | University of Oklahoma | Richard Dawkins |
2009 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Tom Tancredo |
2009 | Boston College | William Ayers |
2009 | DePaul University | Jacob Shrybman |
2009 | DePaul University | Natan Sharansky |
2009 | Saint Louis University | Jacob Shrybman |
2009 | University of Chicago | Ehud Olmert |
2009 | University of Kentucky | Ehud Olmert |
2010 | Seton Hall University School of Law | Chris Christie |
2010 | Temple University | Geert Wilders |
2010 | Syracuse University | Jamie Dimon |
2010 | Ohio Wesleyan University | John McCain |
2010 | State University of New York at Oswego | John McHugh |
2010 | Butler University | John Roberts |
2010 | University of Minnesota | Karl Rove |
2010 | Brandeis University | Michael Oren |
2010 | University of California, Irvine | Michael Oren |
2010 | The George Washington University | Michelle Obama |
2010 | Saint Louis University | Pietro Sambi |
2010 | University of Arizona | Sandra Soto |
2010 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Tom Tancredo |
2010 | Indiana University | Tom Woods |
2010 | Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs | Vikram Pandit |
2010 | University of Wyoming | William Ayers |
2011 | Villanova University | Anna Quindlen |
2011 | Washington University in St. Louis | Bristol Palin |
2011 | University of California, Santa Barbara | David Horowitz |
2011 | San Diego City College | District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis |
2011 | University of Pennsylvania | Eric Cantor |
2011 | Messiah College | Frances Piven |
2011 | Dartmouth College | George H.W. Bush |
2011 | Fontbonne University | Greg Mortenson |
2011 | Messiah College | Jason Mattera |
2011 | The Catholic University of America | John Boehner |
2011 | Washington University in St. Louis | Marvin Casey |
2011 | Rutgers University | Nicole Polizzi |
2011 | Everett Community College | Raymond Ibrahim |
2011 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Rex Tillerson |
2011 | University of Michigan | Rick Snyder |
2011 | University of Wisconsin | Roger Clegg |
2011 | Albright College | Tom Corbett |
2011 | City University of New York | Tony Kushner |
2011 | Anna Maria College | Victoria Reggie Kennedy |
2012 | Fordham University | Ann Coulter |
2012 | Gonzaga University | Archbishop Desmond Tutu |
2012 | Emory University | Ben Carson |
2012 | The George Washington University | Carlos Slim |
2012 | Fordham University | John Brennan |
2012 | Earlham College | Jonah Lehrer |
2012 | Georgetown University | Kathleen Sebelius |
2012 | University of North Carolina | Michael Bloomberg |
2012 | Cornish College of the Arts | Mike Daisey |
2012 | Liberty University | Mitt Romney |
2012 | University of California, Irvine | Osama Shabaik |
2012 | Indiana University Bloomington | Pastor Douglas Wilson |
2012 | Adrian College | Pat Boone |
2012 | Mercy College: St. Elizabeth Campus | Rep. Robert Hagan |
2012 | Michigan State University | Rick Snyder |
2012 | Temple University | Robert Spencer, Nonie Darwish, Pamela Geller |
2012 | University of San Diego | Tina Beattie |
2013 | The George Washington University | Alec Baldwin |
2013 | University of Michigan | Alice Walker |
2013 | Xavier University | Anthony Munoz |
2013 | Johns Hopkins University | Ben Carson |
2013 | Midwestern State University | Ben Carson |
2013 | University of Montana – Western | Carol & Pat Williams |
2013 | Skidmore College | Cynthia Carroll |
2013 | Boston College | Enda Kenny |
2013 | University of California, Berkeley | Eric Holder |
2013 | University of Oklahoma | Fareed Zakaria |
2013 | Duquesne University | Geraldo Rivera |
2013 | Georgetown University | Greta Van Susteren |
2013 | Pasadena City College | James Deen |
2013 | University of Michigan | Jennifer Gratz |
2013 | Providence College | John Corvino |
2013 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Karl Rove |
2013 | Morehouse College | Kevin Johnson |
2013 | Western New England University School of Law | Lois Lerner |
2013 | University of Pennsylvania | Narendra Modi |
2013 | Benedictine College | Paul Ryan |
2013 | St. John’s University | Peter King |
2013 | Georgetown University | Ramy Jan |
2013 | Brown University | Ray Kelly |
2013 | Grand Valley State University | Rick Snyder |
2013 | Swarthmore College | Robert Zoellick |
2013 | Saint Louis University | Scott Brown |
2013 | University of Illinois | Shahid Khan |
2013 | Coastal Carolina University | Tim Scott |
2013 | Millersville University | Tom Corbett |
2014 | Suffolk University | Abraham Foxman |
2014 | Brandeis University | Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
2014 | Barnard College | Cecile Richards |
2014 | Azusa Pacific University | Charles Murray |
2014 | Smith College | Christine Lagarde (IMF) |
2014 | Rutgers University | Condoleezza Rice |
2014 | University of Minnesota | Condoleezza Rice |
2014 | Pasadena City College | Dustin Lance Black |
2014 | Montana Tech of the University of Montana | Greg Gianforte |
2014 | University of California, Hastings College of Law | Janet Napolitano |
2014 | Harvard University | Michael Bloomberg |
2014 | Harvard University Graduate School of Education | Michael Johnston |
2014 | University of California – Irvine | Nonie Darwish |
2014 | Haverford College | Robert J. Birgeneau |
2014 | Howard University | Sean “Diddy” Combs |
2014 | Laney College | Janet Napolitano |