Trump's hyped free speech order will ask colleges to do what they already have to
Posted on AllSides March 21st, 2019
From The Left
President Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon is set to sign his much-hyped executive order on campus free speech — which he has vowed will require colleges to "support free speech" or face "very costly" penalties.
But the order essentially just reinforces what schools are already supposed to be doing by formally requiring colleges to agree to promote free inquiry in order to get billions of dollars in federal research funding.
"While many schools — or all schools — are frankly supposed to follow this currently, it will ensure that grant...