Seven Texas universities failed a free speech report card while five others earned Ds, according to a national advocacy group’s annual review.
Together, the state’s campuses received an average speech climate grade of F, compared with a D-minus nationally. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE, based its grades on surveys of undergraduates, policies governing student expression and how schools handled controversies involving students, faculty and campus events.
The group also ranked each school against 260 others. Four Texas schools ranked 248th or lower out of 261…