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William Peace University

Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Type: Private

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  • REPORT: North Carolina is home to some of America’s best colleges for free speech

    September 24, 2018

    Eight colleges in North Carolina earn FIRE’s highest rating for free speech — more than in any other state — but 17 still maintain policies that substantially restrict student expression. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24, 2018 — A new report finds that North Carolina’s colleges and universities lead the way nationally for protecting student free speech. The… Read more

  • ‘Popehat’ Lectures Peace College on Streisand Effect, Legal ‘Thuggery’

    March 7, 2012

    As I wrote for The Torch last Friday, Peace College in Raleigh, NC, has taken drastic action against its critics, sending a threatening letter to the signatories of a letter critical of Peace’s recent administrative decisions and asking them not-so-kindly to "desist" from circulating their "damag[ing]" criticisms.  The legal blog Popehat picked up the gauntlet… Read more

  • Peace College to Critics: ‘Desist’ From Exercising Free Speech

    March 2, 2012

    In higher education, a significant transformation has been underway at Peace College in North Carolina, a women’s college that will begin admitting men to its full-time undergraduate programs starting this fall. The proverbial "winning hearts and minds" is an important task for a college leader guiding her institution through a major transformation, and criticism from… Read more