Free Speech Group Calls Out 10 Censorship-Prone Colleges To Avoid

When my son, Anthony, began looking at colleges, the environment they offer for free-wheeling debate was an important consideration. Respect for freedom of speech and thought at colleges has been on the ropes for a while and worsened over the past year. Some schools, like the ones to which my son applied, rank well when it comes to tolerance for diversity of ideas, but others are the absolute pits.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a civil liberties group that began with a focus on academia, just published...