Black Hills State University has overcome allegations that the institution’s faculty and staff engaged in promoting a “liberal” agenda after receiving a request June 17 to conduct an internal investigation due to anonymous complaints.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem introduced a state-wide higher education “whistleblower hotline” May 26. This hotline was designed to be a resource for concerned citizens of the state to anonymously voice their questions, comments or concerns in order to ensure “students and faculty to keep our universities accountable to South Dakota values,” according to press release issued by the governor’s office.

“Our children are our future, and South Dakota universities and technical colleges should best prepare them for our future,” Noem said in the press release. “As I work with our Board of Regents and Board of Technical Education to chart our path for higher education, we are giving students, faculty, and parents this tool to help voice any concerns so that they can be addressed.”

Gov. Noem, however, revealed a different motive for the hotline in a letter she wrote to the South Dakota Board of Regents.

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“On campuses across the country, students have been taught the importance of diversity and equity and given access to ‘safe spaces’ instead of learning to tolerate the disagreement, discomfort, and dissent that they will experience in the real world,” Noem wrote.

In the same letter, Noem expressed concern that many...

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