"It all came as a bit of a surprise," Lukianoff said. He said he hadn't heard anything more from Bhattacharya or the Trump transition team on the plan. "We do the campus free speech ranking in part to draw attention to threats to free speech and academic freedom, so we want it ultimately to be a tool for reform."
Bhattacharya has been a vocal critic of both COVID-19-related restrictions and what he calls violations of free speech and academic freedom that limited open discussion about the pandemic.
Lukianoff emphasized, "The devil is absolutely in the details. If there are going to be reforms based on our data, I want the data to be used in a way that improves academic freedom and science—not in a manner that itself violates academic freedom or the U.S. Constitution."
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