The benefits and drawbacks of a ‘principled neutrality’ statement

Penn recently joined a growing list of universities to adopt a policy that limits topics on which officials can comment.
A growing number of prestigious universities are implementing formal strategies to restrict their public statements on national and global events that don’t directly impact their institutional functions.
Since 2022, Princeton, Vanderbilt, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Northwestern, Stanford and Harvard have all adopted these kinds of so-called “principled neutrali