Thanks for this thoughtful review of, and improvement suggestions for, FIRE's campus free speech ratings!
"I probably could have reached out to FIRE ... If by some chance FIRE finds this article ..."
If you're interested in their having a look at this post, it probably wouldn't take too long to tag Adam Goldstein (@AdGo) on Twitter, FIRE's VP of Research.
In mid-August 2022, he responded forthrightly when @PNWSelina noted that FIRE's ideological scale characterizations of at least three speakers and their audience pushback at campus events could bear re-evaluation, and I shared her takes with Adam. See, for instance, https://twitter.com/AdGo/status/1560831788209119232.
I studied at a large Chinese university for a semester. Students who had VPNs (and/or students from HK), told stories about their peers being reprimanded and even disappeared for talking about certain issues such as feminism. The other students never told such stories. I wonder if the non-vpn students would rank their university highly on a FIRE survey.
Thanks for this thoughtful review of, and improvement suggestions for, FIRE's campus free speech ratings!
"I probably could have reached out to FIRE ... If by some chance FIRE finds this article ..."
If you're interested in their having a look at this post, it probably wouldn't take too long to tag Adam Goldstein (@AdGo) on Twitter, FIRE's VP of Research.
In mid-August 2022, he responded forthrightly when @PNWSelina noted that FIRE's ideological scale characterizations of at least three speakers and their audience pushback at campus events could bear re-evaluation, and I shared her takes with Adam. See, for instance, https://twitter.com/AdGo/status/1560831788209119232.
I studied at a large Chinese university for a semester. Students who had VPNs (and/or students from HK), told stories about their peers being reprimanded and even disappeared for talking about certain issues such as feminism. The other students never told such stories. I wonder if the non-vpn students would rank their university highly on a FIRE survey.