From a NYT op-ed by Emma Camp, “I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead [1].”
“Viewpoint diversity is no longer considered a sacred, core value in higher education,” Samuel Abrams, a politics professor at Sarah Lawrence College, told me. He felt this firsthand. In 2018, after he published an Opinion essay in The Times [2] criticizing what he viewed as a lack of ideological diversity among university administrators, his office door was vandalized [3]. Student protesters demanded his tenure be reviewed. While their attempts were unsuccessful, Dr. Abrams remains dissatisfied [4] with fellow faculty members’ reactions. In response to the incident, only 27 faculty members [5] signed a statement supporting free expression — less than 10 percent of the college’s faculty.
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