This is a campaign issue that frightens the Left, and with good reason. Republicans should move swiftly.
This
is how bad higher education has gotten: Republican Senators who worry
about federal overreach and don’t wish to harm large institutions in
their own states have decided that colleges and universities have fully
abandoned their Ivory Tower mission and can only be repaired from the
outside. The remedy is called the “Campus Free Speech Restoration Act,”
which was introduced by Tom Cotton. Stanley Kurtz explains the salient elements of the Act here.
The proposal is simple. “Under
CAFSRA,” Kurtz writes, “public colleges and universities that promulgate
restrictive speech codes, so-called free-speech zones, and other
unconstitutional speech policies will lose their eligibility to receive
federal student loans and grants through the Higher Education Act.”
Private universities will face lesser scrutiny, required only to
disclose their rules for free speech and adhere to them or else face
lawsuits..............To Read More....
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