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“Despite the fact that our campuses have not encountered any substantiated cases of restrictions being placed on free speech, have had no speakers shouted down, no visitors assaulted, no ‘disinvited’ speakers, and no student complaints for at least the last 12 years, which is remarkable in the current political environment, there are still external forces that continue to perpetuate the notion that North Dakota colleges and universities are actively working against free speech and freedom of expression,
Lisa Johnson, the NDUS s vice chancellor for academic and student affairs, said in March before the bill passed. While that may be true of certain coastal institutions, this is simply not true of NDUS institutions.
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by Margaret Menge, The Center Square | April 19, 2021 10:00 AM Print this article
Indiana legislators are taking bold steps to hold the state’s public universities accountable – asking the state agency that oversees them to report on what universities have done to reduce the cost of a college education and what they are doing to protect intellectual property from “foreign malfeasance.”
All public universities under the proposal would also be required to survey all students on free speech by May 1, 2022.
The proposal was authored and introduced by Rep. Jack Jordan, R-Bremen.
“We are in the middle of a transformation of technology and yet, our universities are really a capital-intensive business that is archaic in the manner in which it delivers information,” Jordan said in a committee meeting in March. “In the private sector, knowledge transfer is now pennies on the dollar…The infrastructure that was needed is significantly