LSU ranks 152nd out of 154 in Free Speech Rankings

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Wow, nothing like being near the worst place to express your real opinion...sure the new admins will improve this

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The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), College Pulse, and RealClearEducation released their 2021 student assessment of free speech on major American college campuses this week, which found that the percentage of students who support shutting down speakers they don’t like has increased over the last year.

The report surveyed students from 159 colleges, more than triple the number from the first annual report published in 2020, about their experiences with free speech issues on campus.

Key findings from the report included:

“More than 80% of students report self-censoring their viewpoints at their colleges at least some of the time, with 21% saying they censor themselves often.”
“More than 50% of students identify racial inequality as a difficult topic to discuss on their campuses.”
“Almost one in four (23%) say it is acceptable to use violence to stop a campus speech, sharply up 5 percentage points from last year’s 18%.”
“Two-thirds of students (66%) say it is acceptable to shout down a speaker to prevent them from speaking on campus, up 4 percentage points from last year.”
“Generally, students showed much greater intolerance and much less support for allowing speakers with conservative messages on campus. Speakers with liberal messages generally had much more support for their expression, but full tolerance remained low.”
“With regard to disrupting a speaker on campus, non-binary students were significantly more likely to find disruption acceptable. … Non-binary students also siginificantly more often (23%) said it was acceptable to use violence to stop a campus speech compared to their peers (7% of males and 6% of females).”
The College Free Speech Rankings are based on a composite score of the following seven factors: Openness, Tolerance for Conservative Speakers, Tolerance for Liberal Speakers, Administrative Support for Free Speech, Comfort Expressing Ideas, Disruptive Conduct, and FIRE’s Speech Code Rating.



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Colby College 53.54
Utah State University 53.41
Tulane University 53.39
Bates College 53.06
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 52.77
Boston College 52.53
Wake Forest University 52.34
Louisiana State University 52.09
Marquette University 51.61
DePauw University 50.80


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Claremont McKenna College 72.2
University of Chicago 70.43
University of New Hampshire 67.16
Emory University 67.14
Florida State University 66.95
Purdue University 66.57
University of Maryland 66.44
University of California, Los Angeles 66.43
University of Arizona 66.41
College of William and Mary 65.88
University of Mississippi 65.87
George Mason University 65.42
Oregon State University 65.38