Woke indoctrination has NO PLACE in Alabama or our taxpayer-funded universities”), the sociology professor was removed from the course. Surveillance and censorship of faculty is not confined to large, land-grant universities or Southern states. “Stop talking,” said a deputy department head who outranks Bakken, “and sit down.” It would be tempting to think all of this is nothing more than the shoe on the other foot. Between 2015 and 2020, conservatives fomented a national panic over the idea that left-wing college students and professors had turned universities into places of censorship and ideological intolerance.