The Bias Impact Response Group (BIRG) was established in 2024 to give key campus stakeholders a mechanism to quickly assemble to address incidents of bias. BIRG helps ensure that affected parties have ...

T he past decade has seen an explosion of “bias-response teams” (BRTs) on college campuses. (Some campuses opt for other variants, like “bias-education team” or “bias-support team,” less aggressively ...

The doctor-patient relationship is an important part of helping and healing. But it can be hijacked by racial or other biases that either party holds. A novel study published Monday using the placebo ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider whether university "bias-response teams" chill students' speech in violation of the First Amendment, sidestepping a clash of free speech ...

Over 450 U.S. colleges and universities, public and private, maintain some form of a reporting system aimed at policing campus speech, according to a new report from a campus free speech organization.

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. The Supreme Court is still slowly ...

According to a recent report in The Washington Free Beacon by reporter Aaron Sibarium, these reporting systems allow people to "snitch" on their neighbors. Connecticut allows people to report "hate ...

Over the dissents of two justices, the U.S. Supreme Court is declining to take up a case about whether educational institutions’ bias-reporting policies targeting hateful or derogatory speech have a ...

In recent years, colleges have introduced "bias hotlines," allowing any student to report a perceived offense -- leading to a rash of subjective complaints and a chilling effect on campus free speech.

In a paper initially prepared for the planning meeting for this review, Peytchev (2013) observes that drawing “unbiased inference from probability-based surveys relies on the collection of data from ...