Group 12
Drew David, Marcus Brion, Sadie Krause, Jamie Theobald
BUS 230, Murray
Introduction and Methods
Background
Freedom of Speech is America's first amendment and holds significant importance to American citizens. Recently, nationwide events have been causing a lot of uproar entailing issues of free speech. Although these events are known nationally, not all American's know what is happening on college campuses related to free speech issues. We found that free speech allows people to understand different cultures, unfortunately this isn't always in a positive way. Around the nation, college students have been engaging in controversial acts of free speech; in turn, Universities have reacted and also not reacted to student involvement …show more content…
Our campus-wide survey provides valuable information regarding students and free speech. Issues of free speech are important to our group, and especially the University, because universities are meant to expose students to diverse surroundings to foster growth as individuals and citizens. Our research objectives are:
1. Assess students' attitudes towards free speech.
2. Determine how common it is for students to be directly affected by free speech controversies on …show more content…
In the informed consent, we educated people about what we were doing research on and the sensitivity that could potentially be involved within some of the questions. We made sure to make it clear that the person taking the survey had the ability to discontinue at any time if they felt uncomfortable. That was important to us because we wanted to make sure people taking the survey felt safe during the entire process. After completing the informed consent, we began creating the survey and finished with a total of 26 questions. However, the final amount of questions was subject to how certain questions were answered, so most survey's ended up being less than 26 questions. Completion of the survey took approximately five minutes. This was an important aspect of our survey because we wanted to make sure the survey wasn't too long, therefore, causing people to leave. At the very beginning of our survey we defined free speech for the respondents so that there was less confusion and so that our responses would be more accurate. To assess students' attitudes towards free speech, we asked questions that focused around the campus climate and issues of free speech, including specific events that have taken place on and off campus and across the nation. To determine how common it is for students to be directly affected by free speech controversies on
Drew David, Marcus Brion, Sadie Krause, Jamie Theobald
BUS 230, Murray
Introduction and Methods
Background
Freedom of Speech is America's first amendment and holds significant importance to American citizens. Recently, nationwide events have been causing a lot of uproar entailing issues of free speech. Although these events are known nationally, not all American's know what is happening on college campuses related to free speech issues. We found that free speech allows people to understand different cultures, unfortunately this isn't always in a positive way. Around the nation, college students have been engaging in controversial acts of free speech; in turn, Universities have reacted and also not reacted to student involvement …show more content…
Our campus-wide survey provides valuable information regarding students and free speech. Issues of free speech are important to our group, and especially the University, because universities are meant to expose students to diverse surroundings to foster growth as individuals and citizens. Our research objectives are:
1. Assess students' attitudes towards free speech.
2. Determine how common it is for students to be directly affected by free speech controversies on …show more content…
In the informed consent, we educated people about what we were doing research on and the sensitivity that could potentially be involved within some of the questions. We made sure to make it clear that the person taking the survey had the ability to discontinue at any time if they felt uncomfortable. That was important to us because we wanted to make sure people taking the survey felt safe during the entire process. After completing the informed consent, we began creating the survey and finished with a total of 26 questions. However, the final amount of questions was subject to how certain questions were answered, so most survey's ended up being less than 26 questions. Completion of the survey took approximately five minutes. This was an important aspect of our survey because we wanted to make sure the survey wasn't too long, therefore, causing people to leave. At the very beginning of our survey we defined free speech for the respondents so that there was less confusion and so that our responses would be more accurate. To assess students' attitudes towards free speech, we asked questions that focused around the campus climate and issues of free speech, including specific events that have taken place on and off campus and across the nation. To determine how common it is for students to be directly affected by free speech controversies on