Mizzou Ranked As Worst School In The Country For Ideological Diversity

The University of Missouri (MU) and University of Oregon have been dubiously honored as the worst major colleges in the country when it comes to respecting diverse viewpoints.

The “honor” comes from a new ranking by Heterodox Academy, a non-profit founded earlier this year by several academics concerned with the overwhelming ideological homogeneity of American colleges.

In its newly-released Guide to Colleges, Heterodox scores the top 150 schools in the U.S. (according to U.S. News and World Report’s ranking of national universities) on four factors indicating their overall openness to minority political viewpoints.

The four factors in the rankings are:

• Whether a school has endorsed the Chicago Principles, a robust set of free expression principles adopted by the University of Chicago.
• A university’s rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a campus free-speech group
• A school’s rating from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), which assesses how open schools are to conservative and libertarian political beliefs.
• Major news events at the school which revealed particularly strong institutional support or opposition towards free expression.

n the initial version of the list, MU and Oregon finished in dead last with a big fat 0 out of 100 for their scores. Besides having a Red rating from both FIRE and ISI, each school also had several “relevant events” since 2014 that Heterodox flagged as harmful to free expression. 

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