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In Heim v. Daniel, FIRE pursues opportunity to bolster academic freedom in the Northeast

elbud / Shutterstock.com FIRE argued the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit should join other circuits that have recognized college faculty don't lose their free speech rights when they are ...

2022-09-16

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FIRE welcomes inaugural class of Campus Scholars!

FIRE FIRE's inaugural class of Campus Scholars (from left to right): Rohan Krishnan, Lillian Tara, Melanie Nolan, Ari Wagen, and Will Harris. This fall, FIRE welcomed its inaugural class of Campus Sch...

2022-09-16

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Skidmore College tanks in FIRE’s College Free Speech Rankings

Last week, FIRE released our third annual College Free Speech Rankings , which use survey data from nearly 45,000 students to assess the climate for free speech at 203 of the country’s top colleges an...

2022-09-15

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Border Patrol, Citizens Continue to Find Hundreds of Thousands of Fentanyl Pills and Hundreds of Pounds of Meth in Arizona

The border crisis is more than illegal immigration. We should start a fentanyl and methamphetamine series because the Border Patrol and regular citizens seem to find many of these drugs every day. I c...

2022-09-19

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FIRE’s comment to Department of Education: Your proposed Title IX regulations are unconstitutional

On Sept. 12, FIRE submitted its comment to the Department of Education in response to the department’s proposed Title IX regulations. Our message is simple: You can’t require colleges and universities...

2022-09-14

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Heim v. Daniel

State University of New York - Albany Search all Cases John Heim is an adjunct professor of economics at the State University of New York at Albany (UAlbany). Heim’s economic philosophy and research a...

2022-09-14

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The U.S. Department of Education Releases Title IX Regulations that Threaten Free Speech, Due Process - April 19, 2024

Search all Cases On April 4, 2011, the federal Department of Education sent a “Dear Colleague” letter to colleges and universities nationwide that led to vast Title IX overreach. The letter led instit...

2022-09-12

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Media Revives ‘DeSantis is Worse Than Trump’ Narrative After Martha’s Vineyard Hysteria

Gov. DeSantis “may be a more competent Trump in terms of his ability to use the levers of state to amass power, but he’s also meaner and more rigid, without the soft edges and eccentricity of the actu...

2022-09-19

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The new and improved College Free Speech Rankings

This week, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) released our third annual College Free Speech Rankings . This year we surveyed almost 45,000 undergraduates and ranked over 200 co...

2022-09-09

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Just released: The 2022-2023 College Free Speech Rankings

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 7, 2022 — The largest survey on student free expression ever conducted adds 45,000 student voices to the national conversation about free speech on college campuses — and finds tha...

2022-09-07

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LAWSUIT: FIRE challenges Stop WOKE Act’s limits on how Florida professors can teach about race, sex

Will Simpson Photography Photos of FIRE Plaintiffs Adriana Novoa and Sam Rechek TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 6, 2022 — To protect free speech, the government must censor. That’s the absurd argument put forth by...

2022-09-07

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Marine Corps Ends Harsh Penalties for Those Seeking COVID Vaccine Religious Exemptions

U.S. Navy is also reversing an order punishing SEALs who remain unvaccinated due to their religious beliefs. Are the bureaucrats in the Department of Defense finally catching up with science? This may...

2022-09-19

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Novoa v. Diaz: Florida Board of Governors: Florida Law Restricting How College Professors, Students Can Discuss Race and Sex

University of South Florida Search all Cases Novoa v. Diaz Complaint More than a half-century ago, the Supreme Court recognized that the First Amendment “does not tolerate laws that cast a pall of or...

2022-09-06

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Campus Activism Resources

For more than 20 years, FIRE has worked to protect fundamental rights on America's college and university campuses in several key areas, including: freedom of speech and expression; religious liberty ...

2022-09-02

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A small nonprofit condemned electric shocks on autistic people. Now it’s facing a lawsuit threat.

Zoey Read, credit: Whitney Ingram, Odja LLC BOSTON, Aug. 30, 2022 — Can a powerful organization bully a critic into silence for condemning the use of electric-shock devices on autistic residents? Not ...

2022-08-30

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Battle of The CRT Mapping Projects – Legal Insurrection versus UCLA Law School

UCLA’s pro-CRT map has money and institutional power behind it. Our CriticalRace.org maps have none of that, just lots of inconvenient facts: “What our database has turned into over time is more than ...

2022-09-19

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Hate Speech

The First Amendment recognizes that the government cannot regulate hate speech without inevitably silencing the dissent and dialogue that democracy requires. Contrary to a common misconception, most e...

2022-08-19

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What Are Speech Codes?

Despite the critical importance of free speech on campus, too many universities — in policy and in practice — censor and punish students’ and faculty members’ speech and expressive activity. One way t...

2022-08-19

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Alarming proposal would punish K-12 students for any written communication unrelated to class

Is it rain, or are they teardrops? Welcome to Pennridge School District in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where students will soon have to toss their rights in the trash as soon as they hop onto the bus....

2022-08-12

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Lefties Fret That Faulty Polling Is “Giving Democrats False Hope” For The Midterms

“At this point I think it’s fair to say that Biden’s pursuit of and attacks on ‘MAGA Republicans’ has created an army of voters who will be virtually impossible to poll (even for us) and more difficul...

2022-09-18