Colleges in America are ultra-politically-correct breeding grounds for the suppression of speech. It’s an awful and embarrassing state of affairs for a country which purports to offer freedom of expression.

This past academic year, these schools were some of the most awful dumps for freedom.

Dixie State University is getting sued by student members of Young Americans for Liberty with assistance from The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for violating First Amendment rights. In March, the taxpayer-funded university in the southwest corner of Utah refused to approve flyers from Young Americans for Liberty that negatively portrayed Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Che Guevara. The school’s flyer policy states, “Materials may not single out any individual group(s) or entities in a derogatory manner.” The school also suppressed the formation of a sorority in 2013 because it has banned clubs with the Greek alphabet in their names. Students of Phi Beta Kappa certainly shouldn’t apply and hopefully won’t apply to Dixie State.

In January, a federal judge shut down a flatly unconstitutional rule at Waubonsee Community College which prohibited an anti-gay group from distributing stridently anti-gay leaflets around the campus on the far western fringes of Chicago’s western suburbs. “It is unpopular, even offensive, ideas that our most closely held constitutional right seeks to shelter,” federal district Judge Robert W. Gettleman wrote. Confused, taxpayer-funded bureaucrats banned the plaintiff, Heterosexuals Organized for a Moral Environment (HOME), from distributing pamphlets entitled “The Uncensored Truth About Homosexuality” and “Gay Activism and Freedom of Speech and Religion.” Attorneys for the community college argued that the school’s anti-bias policies prohibited discrimination against sexual orientation and thus made it totally okay to stifle unpopular speech. Such speech might lead to “unlawful hostility,” they worried.

In March, a University of Oregon campus police officer tried to shut down a pro-life activist because, the cop believed, the aborted fetus on his sign violated the university’s prohibition on “offensive or demeaning” expression.” You can see the video here of the cop denying the protester his freedom of speech. Other students on campus also joined in. One student decided to damage the fetus sign by grabbing the poster and stepping on it. She defended herself by saying the poster was, “not part” of the protester’s “First Amendment rights.”

Read the article “The Worst Colleges for Free Speech in 2015” on dailycaller.com.