Students report peers’ mean words to UConn bias reporting system, records show

Student free-speech advocates at the University of Connecticut fighting for First Amendment rights on campus recently said the school’s bias reporting system is used as a weapon to target free speech.

A review this month of bias response complaints filed with the large public university shows that, at a minimum, the system is used by students to tell on their peers’ wording choices to campus authorities.

The College Fix reviewed 53 reports filed with the UConn bias reporting system between 2018 and 2019 and found numerous instances of anonymous students reporting others for their political statements, vulgar graffiti, things said in private conversations and similar circumstances.