Earlier this month, the New York Post published a recent report that ranked Harvard as the very worst college campus in America for free speech. The article details the annual rankings by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a non-profit seeking to protect speech rights in America. FIRE’s annual report on freedom of speech at college campuses uses a variety of methods to rank 254 colleges nationwide, including the school’s free speech policies, whether community members have been disciplined or targeted, if administrators ever stand up to defend free speech, and a student survey with over 55,000 participants. These and other factors are used to calculate a “score” for each school, ranking the speech climates across varying campuses.
Harvard, the world’s most renowned academic institution, scored the worst out of every school with a zero out of a 100-point scale. The second to last? University of Pennsylvania with a score of 11.13. While Harvard is not exactly known for being the most conducive school for free speech in America, is it really the worst?
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