Only a sliver of students in the State University System of Florida responded to a controversial state-mandated survey designed to measure “intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity” on campuses. Less than 3% of students given the survey took it. State legislators required all public colleges to administer the survey to students, faculty and staff with a law passed in 2021. The survey asks how comfortable they are expressing their personal beliefs and whether they think institutions welcome varied political opinions. The employee response rate, a little less than 10%, was slightly higher than the student one.
