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I took it as a given that the vast majority of today’s US institutions of higher education operated consistently with a secular humanist philosophy, so I assumed, and I may be mistaken and the OP can clarify, that the OP was curious about the extent to which students at various institutions formed their “own views in all matters.” I just wanted to make the point that there is a difference between forming one’s own views and mimicking others who hold opinions that have been associated with the label of “free thinker.”</p>