Overview

• Harvard moved from last to 245th of 257 schools yet still received an F in FIRE’s college free speech rankings released Tuesday.
• Barnard ranked lowest overall and Columbia ranked second-worst, with Indiana University also in the bottom three, according to the report.
• FIRE surveyed more than 68,000 students across 257 institutions and found 166 schools earned an F as students showed growing resistance to hosting controversial speakers.
• At Harvard, only 20% of students say the university clearly protects free speech and just 8% expect administrative defense in an offensive-speech controversy.
• Columbia agreed to reform protest rules under a federal settlement, and a judge blocked the administration’s attempt to cut more than $2 billion in Harvard funding.