The first thing that comes to mind is that there was more campus violence in the past (1960s-70s).
This seems to be true, but:
There is violence today as well, for example see Middlebury incident where one professor was injured.
There may be less violence today overall because the non-violent chilling effects are stronger (due to potential for things like social media and search engines to permanently ruin one’s reputation) and that silences people before conflicts become violent.
I think there was little or no violence in the 80s-00s? If so, the most recent trend would be negative even ignoring #2.
This seems to be true, but:
There is violence today as well, for example see Middlebury incident where one professor was injured.
There may be less violence today overall because the non-violent chilling effects are stronger (due to potential for things like social media and search engines to permanently ruin one’s reputation) and that silences people before conflicts become violent.
I think there was little or no violence in the 80s-00s? If so, the most recent trend would be negative even ignoring #2.
These are good ideas, but how to get the data?