Evidence That Conservative Students Really Do Self-Censor

Sachs and I watched the same controversies unfold on various campuses and drew very different conclusions about their implications for campus life. Last spring, three professors at the University of North Carolina surveyed undergraduates to get a sense of the campus climate. Rather than focus on discrete controversies, such as the time in 2015 when UNC student protesters seized control of a room where a journalist was speaking, or the time in 2019 when a UNC student assaulted a sign-carrying anti-abortion activist, they sought to understand day-to-day undergraduate experiences.