Diversity in Academe: Do Colleges Quash Conservative Views?, Fall 2019Colleges are supposed to be places where people with diverse viewpoints from lots of backgrounds learn how to coexist. Thats long been one of higher educations major selling points. But as critics tell it, colleges are where conservative views are quashed, right wing speakers are run off campus, and liberal student mobs sway administrative decision making. As polarizing forces threaten campus conversations across difference and higher educations