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Self-Censorship or Just Being Nice
Understanding College Students’ Decisions About Classroom Speech
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Explores college students’ moral reasoning around free expression issues in the classroom. Through surveys and interviews, examines students’ judgments about others’ classroom speech and how they make decisions about whether to share their own perspectives in the classroom or not.
Self-Censorship or Just Being Nice from University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement
The “free speech” or“self-censorship crisis” on college campuses is hotly debated, yet student self-censorship is a poorly understood phenomenon. As more and more states engage in legislative efforts to address this problem, it is critical that we develop a deeper understanding of how students think about speech on college campuses, and especially in college classrooms.
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