While most students prioritize exposure to all speech at college, one in five favor protections

If you had to choose, do you think it is more important for colleges to:

Prior to 2021, respondents were not shown “no opinion” but could volunteer it as a response.

In 2016, the question was: “If you had to choose, do you think it is more important for colleges to [create a positive learning environment for all students by prohibiting certain speech or expression of viewpoints that are offensive or biased against certain groups of people, (or to) create an open learning environment where students are exposed to all types of speech and viewpoints, even if it means allowing speech that is offensive or biased against certain groups of people]?”