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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Resident Assistants Feared Firing For Speaking to Media

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search all Cases In October 2020, Resident Assistants at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were reportedly concerned about the implications of t...

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COVID on Campus: The Pandemic’s Impact on Student and Faculty Speech Rights

In this report, FIRE gives readers a clearer picture of what institutions have done wrong, how they can do better, and the broader challenges to education posed by the past year. Read the Press Releas...

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Adopting the Chicago Statement

Because the University is committed to free and open inquiry in all matters, it guarantees all members of the University community the broadest possible latitude to speak, write, listen, challenge, an...

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University of San Diego: Law school professor investigated for blog post about COVID-19

University of San Diego Search all Cases On March 10, 2021, Thomas Smith, a law professor at the University of San Diego School of Law, posted on his personal blog an excerpt from a Wall Street Journa...

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University of San Diego

San Diego, California Search all Schools University of San Diego has not been given a speech code rating. To request speech code information about this school, please submit a speech code request form...

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Yale University: Protesters at Yale Threaten Free Speech, Demand Apologies and Resignations from Faculty Members Over Halloween Email

Yale University Search all Cases On October 30, 2015, Erika Christakis, associate master of Yale University’s Silliman College , responded to an email from the school’s Intercultural Affairs Council t...

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Rutgers University: Student Bar Association Requires Student Groups to Host Ideological Events to Request More Than $250 in Student Fee Funding

Rutgers University - Camden Search all Cases In the fall 2020 semester, the Rutgers Law School, Camden Campus Student Bar Association amended its constitution to require all student groups to hold eve...

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Rutgers University - Camden

Camden, New Jersey Search all Schools Rutgers University - Camden has not been given a speech code rating. To request speech code information about this school, please submit a speech code request for...

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Saint Vincent College: Administration Seizes Control Over Speaker Invitations

Saint Vincent College Search all Cases On April 19, 2022, Saint Vincent College announced a new policy requiring the college president and his cabinet to approve all college-sponsored speaker appearan...

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Saint Vincent College

Latrobe, Pennsylvania Search all Schools Saint Vincent College has not been given a speech code rating. To request speech code information about this school, please submit a speech code request form ....

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FAQ: Adopting Free Speech Lessons for Orientation & First-Year Experience Programming

FIRE, in partnership with New York University’s First Amendment Watch , has developed a series of free-to-use modules, videos, and other resources for universities to utilize when teaching incoming st...

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The Three Arguments in Support of Free Speech

Use: Beyond use during digital or in-person orientations, the video can serve as a resource on university web pages explaining student speech rights and free speech defense strategies. Content: D...

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FAQ: The First Amendment and Campus Life

Use: This FAQ can be handed out to new students. Additionally, the text or video can be used on university web pages explaining student rights. Content: “Congress shall make no law respecting an ...

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The Role of Student Publications on Campus

Use: The video adaptation of this lesson and the script can be used during digital or in-person journalism program orientations, class lectures, or as part of remarks while onboarding new student news...

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Social Media and Online Speech Rights

Use: We suggest using this lesson in programming explaining IT policies or codes of conduct. The video can also be placed on university web pages explaining student rights or IT policies. Content: ...

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Model Speech Policies for College Campuses

For years, FIRE has been cataloging speech codes — policies that impermissibly regulate or restrict student expression — at hundreds of American colleges and universities. This Model Speech Policies p...

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Kirkwood Community College: Professor Removed From Class Following Anti-Trump Facebook Post, Affiliation With Antifa

Kirkwood Community College Search all Cases In August 2019, President Trump tweeted that he was considering designating “ANTIFA, the gutless Radical Left Wack Jobs who go around hitting (only non-figh...

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Scholars Under Fire: 2021 Year in Review

This research documents the ways and reasons that scholars have faced calls for sanction; how scholars and institutional administrators have responded to different forms of targeting; and what (if any...

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University of North Carolina at Wilmington: Invasion of Professor’s Privacy and Suppression of Speech

University of North Carolina - Wilmington Search all Cases A student at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington sent an email to Professor Mike Adams and others blaming the September 11 th 2001...

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