White-supremacist propaganda on college campuses is rising sharply, according to data released on Thursday by the Anti-Defamation League.
During the 2017-18 academic year, the ADL’s research arm, the Center on Extremism, recorded 292 instances of white-supremacist propaganda on campuses. That’s a 77-percent increase from the 165 cases it documented in the 2016-17 academic year.
The white-supremacist activity mainly took the form of posters and fliers, the ADL found. In the past year, high-profile controversies at Texas State University, the University of Virginia,and Michigan State University have sparked concern that colleges and universities were becoming targets of the far right.