The first thing that comes to mind is that there was more campus violence in the past (1960s-70s). e.g. Paris in May ’68, the Zenkyoto riots, Students for a Democratic Society, internal Black Power murders, and so on.
When, at the 1966 SDS convention, women called for debate they were showered with abuse, pelted with tomatoes.
(Though one of the most notable student movements, the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, was actually about lifting institutional restrictions on discussion specifically Vietnam War protest.)
I don’t have data, but this fear was maybe a stronger chilling effect than of being called names and disapproved of. Ideas for operationalising the culture:
How many admin restrictions on acceptable speech? How many expulsions for speech?
How many protests at lectures? How many successful no-platforms?
How many students left college after cancelling?
some measure of polarisation, of people self-sorting into their tribe’s college.
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.
The first thing that comes to mind is that there was more campus violence in the past (1960s-70s). e.g. Paris in May ’68, the Zenkyoto riots, Students for a Democratic Society, internal Black Power murders, and so on.
(Though one of the most notable student movements, the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, was actually about lifting institutional restrictions on discussion specifically Vietnam War protest.)
I don’t have data, but this fear was maybe a stronger chilling effect than of being called names and disapproved of. Ideas for operationalising the culture:
How many admin restrictions on acceptable speech? How many expulsions for speech?
How many protests at lectures? How many successful no-platforms?
How many students left college after cancelling?
some measure of polarisation, of people self-sorting into their tribe’s college.
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?