Mandatory first-year orientation programs that teach students the correct way to think about race, gender, sexual orientation, and religion” can potentially violate students’ right to private conscience.
Florida’s Indian River Community College is engaging in a campaign of repression against a Christian student group for attempting to show Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ on campus.
On 25 March 2004, the executive committee of the Organization of American Historians authorized appointment of a special committee to investigate "repression" in the American academy.