Source: Expression
by Ross Marchand
“In June 2024, the Purdue University Board of Trustees boldly declared that Purdue does not take sides on the leading, and often contentious, issues of the day. Quoting the University of Chicago’s 1967 Kalven Report, the board affirmed that, true to the principles of ‘institutional neutrality,’ the university is host to dissidents and critics but ‘it is not itself the critic.’ That is, until the critics say something the university doesn’t like. In Purdue’s case, all it took was for the independent student newspaper The Exponent to publish an editorial announcing it would remove the names and images of pro-Palestinian activists from its website over concerns that the federal government would use them in its efforts targeting what the government called ‘pro-jihadist’ speech.” (07/14/25)
https://expression.fire.org/p/purdue-fails-its-own-test-on-institutional