{"id":6746,"date":"2023-10-31T04:03:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T05:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6746"},"modified":"2023-10-31T05:56:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T05:56:09","slug":"state-republicans-push-free-speech-punishments-for-university-of-wisconsin-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6746","title":{"rendered":"State Republicans Push Free Speech Punishments for University of Wisconsin Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Benjamin Yount<\/h5>\n

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Republicans at the Wisconsin Capitol say students need free speech protections on University of Wisconsin campuses.<\/p>\n

The Assembly Committee on Colleges and University held a public hearing on a pair of plans Republicans say will not only make sure the Universities of Wisconsin are respecting the First Amendment but will also open the campus to more students.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe stark difference between Democrats\u2019 confidence level in higher education, which is about 59 percent positive according to Gallup, and that of Republicans, which is only about 19 percent positive and Independents confidence which is measured at about 32 percent positive, is also reflected in the UW Free Speech Survey results shows the lack of intellectual diversity and tolerance for opposing viewpoints on UW campuses is directly affecting enrollment,\u201d State Rep. Amanda Nedweski, R-Pleasant Prairie, told lawmakers.<\/p>\n

She is shepherding one of the two plans, Assembly Bill 553, through the legislature.<\/p>\n

Nedweski helped write the legislation after the UW Free Speech Survey last year and after a series of public hearings at UW campuses.<\/p>\n

That survey showed half of UW students don\u2019t speak their minds out of fear of being \u201ccanceled.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMore than half of our students, 57 percent, reported wanting to express their views about a controversial topic in class but decided not to,\u201d UW President Jay Rothman said on Twitter\u00a0of the survey<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cSome worried that other students would disagree with their views, or that the instructor would find their views offensive, or that they would get a lower grade.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nedweski said so far, the University of Wisconsin has resisted requests to protect and promote free speech.<\/p>\n

She said lawmakers must now do something else.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is to put pressure on the universities,\u201d Nedweski said.<\/p>\n

Nedweski\u2019s plan would include a requirement that would send prospective students a letter explaining that their UW campuses violated the new free speech policy.<\/p>\n

Democrats at the Capitol don\u2019t like that idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, we\u2019re putting pressure on the Universities?\u201d State Rep. Alex Joers, D-Middleton said. \u201cI don\u2019t know how I would read that as a student, but they may say \u2018Whoa, I don\u2019t want to go to the University of Wisconsin.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes,\u201d Nedweski said, \u201cThat\u2019s the idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Benjamin Yount is a contributor to The Center Square.\u00a0<\/a>
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