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Free speech is in trouble: Higher education needs higher standards

We've witnessed an unprecedented number of professors targeted for firing, and one in six professors say that they have been punished or threatened with punishment for speech, research or in-class instruction. And according to data from a survey of student experiences that FIRE conducted last summer, one in 10 students said that they had been punished or threatened with punishment for their expression.