College Student Views on Free Expression and Campus Speech 2024 · Mar 7–28, 2024 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Ipsos independent
- Sponsor
- John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
- Commissioned by
- John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
- Fielded
- Mar 7–28, 2024
- Population
- currently enrolled college students ages 18-24
- Sample size
- 1,678
- Sample frame
- probability panel
- Panel
- Ipsos KnowledgePanel; YouthPulse Panel
- Mode
- online - Ipsos KnowledgePanel (address-based probability panel) plus the YouthPulse Panel; non-internet households provided a tablet and connection
- Margin of error
- +/- 2.7 percentage points
- Weighting
- weighted to be representative of 18-24 year-old enrolled college students; design effect 1.29
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- 418 students at two-year colleges and 1,246 at four-year colleges.
Sources
Verification note. Wording and totals read from the Knight-Ipsos 2024 report PDF (Q10 and Q13). These items name gender identity only as one of four protected characteristics inside the survey's definition of hate speech - they are not trans-specific items, and are recorded here because the assignment covers free-expression surveys touching gender identity. Subgroup values in the Q10 chart could not be reliably mapped to their labels after PDF extraction, so only totals (and the male/female split, which the report narrative confirms) are recorded.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
whether hate speech attacking people on the basis of gender identity (among other characteristics) should be protected by the First Amendment
The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that hate speech - which attacks people based on their race, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation - is legally protected free speech.
The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that hate speech - which attacks people based on their race, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation - is legally protected free speech. Do you think hate speech is a form of expression that should or should not be protected by the First Amendment?
No, should not be protected
52%
Yes, should be protected
46%
Skipped
2%
Wording notes: gender identity appears only inside the definition of hate speech, not as the subject of the question | stem asserts the Supreme Court's holding before asking the opinion, which anchors toward 'should be protected' | the 2017 version of this item omitted the four-characteristic definition entirely and is therefore not comparable for this database
loaded_terms — the preamble states the legal answer before asking the normative question, and 'hate speech' is left to the respondent's own construction beyond the four listed characteristics
whether hate speech attacking people on the basis of gender identity (among other characteristics) should be allowed on college campuses
Do you think hate speech - meaning, speech which attacks people based on their race, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation - is a form of expression that should be allowed on college campuses?
No, should not be allowed
75%
Wording notes: gender identity appears only inside the definition of hate speech | the report itself footnotes that respondents may read the item as covering harassment or conduct rather than protected speech
unclear — Knight's own footnote concedes the item may be interpreted as covering unprotected conduct such as harassment, which makes the measured quantity ambiguous
Subgroup figures (2)