Greg Lukianoff

And then the biggest missing element was to be able to ask students directly what the environment was like on that campus for freedom of speech.

Are you comfortable disagreeing with each other?

Are you comfortable disagreeing with your professors?

do you think violence is acceptable in response to a speaker?

Do you think shouting down is okay?

Do you think blocking people's access to a speaker is okay?

And once we were able to get all those elements together, we first did a test run, I think in 2019, about 50, and we've been doing it for four years now, always trying to make the methodology more and more precise to better reflect the actual environment at particular schools.

And this year, the number one school was Michigan Technological University, which was a nice surprise.

The number two school was actually Auburn University, which was nice to see.

In the top 10, the most well-known prestigious school is actually UVA, which did really well this year.

University of Chicago was not happy that they weren't number one, but University of Chicago was 13, and they had been number one or in the top three for years prior to that.

They had a case involving a student.

They wouldn't recognize a chapter of Turning Point USA, and they made a very classic argument, and classic in the bad way, that we hear at campuses across the country, oh, we have a campus for Republicans, so we don't need this additional conservative group.

We're like, no, I'm sorry.

We've seen dozens and dozens, if not hundreds of attempts to get this one particular conservative student group de-recognized or not recognized.

We told them at FIRE that we consider this serious, and they wouldn't recognize the group.

That's a point down in our ranking, and it was enough to knock them from

They probably would have been number two in the rankings.

But now they're 13 out of 248.

They're still one of the best schools in the country.