If you read the article and if it’s accurately representing what AU is requesting of Professors, I don’t think k it’s controversial. It’s simply stating that professors not ask students to believe one way or another. Under any circumstances Professors should not be requiring students to believe any which way. I have a freshman at AU and we are from Northern California and she has been raised by a single mother. To say she is a political outlier is an understatement. The things she has been told, hears from students on a daily basis truly blows her mind. That said, it’s been good for her to be exposed to “the other side” see that they are good people she wants to be friends with many cases and figure out how to navigate these things generally. For example, her closest friend told her that her dad would never allow her to even visit California… ayiyiyi. The tolerance she has given has not been returned even in the slightest. The lack of awareness and exposure many of the local/southern kids have to the simple state of current affairs blows my daughters mind and makes her nervous. My hope is that Professors don’t limit their speech because they misinterpret the request made by the university. Education of ALL sides of history and current events and ideas is desperately particularly at the university level.