Support for requiring DEI statements in job applications is associated with willingness to restrict speech and investigate colleagues for controversial expression.
University of Utah’s Department of Communication is barring faculty from communicating disfavored words and ideas under its Anti-Racist Code of Conduct that requires the “eradication” of certain speech from teaching and curricula.
Jenny Martinez’s 10-page tour-de-force on free speech in higher ed addresses the backlash and paves a path forward. Time will tell if Stanford Law students will take it.
Washington state Senate Bill 5427, which would have created a bias reporting system for the entire state, failed to advance out of the Senate Ways and Means committee.
Several states in the past three months have either issued executive orders or introduced legislation on this topic that would regulate how race and sex is discussed on college and university campuses.
Stanford College Republicans will host conservative commentator Matt Walsh, and in response students have torn down and burned flyers advertising Walsh’s event.
