Where is my shocked face when I need it? – STUDY: Conservative students feel pressure to self-censor

If students feel the need to censor themselves, Wills warns, this may “derail” the learning experience.

“Student learning is derailed when students perceive a need to censor their beliefs or write on an exam what they think a professor wants to hear. That is not a positive learning experience, or really a learning experience at all,” he explained.

“We are not suggesting that students themselves are responsible for the derailing,” Wills clarified. “It’s a missed learning opportunity. Given their position of authority in the classroom, professors must take responsibility for such outcomes—especially if they are creating a classroom environment in which students do not think they can honestly express their own views.”

Seems like this research should have been done a number of years ago. I suspect the reason it wasn’t as no one gives a damn about conservative students.

I suspect most Universities are like Boulder, it’s just accepted that you are “one of them” (i.e. a liberal). If you’re not, your some type of nut job.