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Share Your Experience

If you are a student, professor, instructor, graduate assistant, or university employee within Florida higher education, you may use this form to document moments when classroom discussion, academic communication, or institutional culture seemed unusually cautious, redirected, minimized, politically sensitive, or difficult to navigate openly.

You may describe a single classroom interaction, a broader pattern across multiple courses or departments, or longer-term changes you have noticed over time within your institution.

Questions to Consider

Did discussion of a current political issue, Florida law, or public controversy feel unusually vague, indirect, or abbreviated compared to its significance?
Did a classroom conversation shift away from a politically sensitive topic without clear explanation?
Have you noticed certain subjects repeatedly avoided despite seeming directly relevant to course material or public events?
Have you personally felt hesitant to speak openly in class or within your institution about a political or controversial issue?
Have you observed changes in how freely students or faculty participate in discussions over the course of a semester or academic year?
Have you noticed changes in syllabi, framing, examples, or classroom tone that seemed connected to broader political or institutional pressures?

Please do not include names or identifying details about specific students, professors, instructors, administrators, or staff members. Submissions are reviewed and moderated before publication to protect privacy, maintain credibility, and keep the focus on broader institutional and discourse patterns rather than personal accusations.

The purpose of this project is not to encourage harassment or ideological targeting. Its goal is to create a structured, low-risk space where participants across Florida higher education can document how academic discourse and institutional climate are experienced in practice.

Experience

Published Submissions

Campus Discourse Watch publishes moderated and anonymized submissions on a rolling basis from students, faculty, instructors, graduate assistants, and others within Florida higher education. Submissions focus on patterns in classroom discourse, institutional climate, political caution, self-censorship, topic avoidance, indirect framing, and other experiences related to academic communication and speech climate.

Submissions are not published automatically. Each response is reviewed to remove identifying information, confirm relevance to the project’s focus, and maintain a respectful, analytical, and non-accusatory tone.

The purpose of this section is not to target specific individuals, departments, or courses. It is to document how discourse climate and institutional pressure are experienced across Florida colleges and universities over time. Submissions containing personal accusations, harassment, unverifiable claims, or identifying information may be edited, anonymized, or declined for publication.

Campus Discourse Watch does not treat individual submissions as definitive proof of broader institutional claims. Instead, the project examines recurring themes, shared experiences, and observable patterns that may emerge across institutions, disciplines, and participant roles.

This section will be updated as moderated responses are received and reviewed. To contribute anonymously, visit the Share Your Experience page.