Ian Bogost, Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, writing in The Atlantic:  “Reactionary speech suppression is taking hold at public universities. Many schools, including Auburn and the University of Michigan, have shut down their DEI offices; Texas A&M censored courses based on race and gender content; and Indiana University halted the print edition of the student newspaper, an act its journalists said amounted to censorship. Some private schools, including Columbia, Northwestern, and Cornell, have struck deals to restore funding that included provisions on civil rights standards, disciplinary processes, DEI rubrics for admissions and hiring, and policies related to sex and gender identity. (On the other hand), Schools like Davidson and Amherst are far less exposed than research universities to the threat of withheld money and have not been explicitly asked to sign Trump’s Compact.” Read more here.

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