Legislation based on ACTA’s Intellectual Diversity: Time for Action has now been introduced in Oregon — the fifth state this year. Others include Georgia, where the UGA student government has endorsed the bill, and Missouri, where a poll of undergraduates at the state’s two largest public universities had some interesting results:

  • 58.7 percent reported that “some professors use the classroom to present their personal political views”;
  • 56.8 percent reported courses that “have readings which present only one side of a controversial issue”; and
  • 51 percent reported “courses in which students feel they have to agree with the professor’s political or social views in order to get a good grade.”