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WATCH VIDEO What is academic freedom? And who polices its boundaries? Our guests on today’s show argue that the popular conception of academic freedom has become too closely connected with the concept...
Linfield University dismissed faculty "without affordance of the academic due process that defines tenure and protects academic freedom," according to a scathing report by the American Association of ...
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh responded to FIRE's concerns about student press censorship. (Advance-Titan file photo) In March, FIRE reported that the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh was subjecting ...
Ukraine thinks it can retake the 42 villages on Friday. It’s still dicey in Mariupol as Russia claims 42 villages in the Donetsk region. Three buses left Mariupol with evacuees but unfortunately not m...
Alex Staroseltsev / Shutterstock.com As reported by Alex Oliveira writing for the Daily Mail: Shawnee State University has agreed to pay $400,000 to professor Nick Meriwether, who sued the school afte...
Linfield University dropped its investigation into Professor Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt (pictured) for her social media posts that praised English majors and criticized the business school’s takeover of ...
Ken Wolter / Shutterstock.com Last year, FIRE contacted the California Institute of Technology with concerns that new event funding guidelines issued by the university’s Graduate Student Council risk ...
Mariupol commander: “We will not lay down our weapons.” I love Wimbledon so much. I reported from it live two years in a row for Breitbart Sports. But the oldest and grandest tennis Grand Slam has tak...
Emporia State University’s student-run publication, The Bulletin , recently published a cover story on the case of Kaitlyn Brasher, a student sued by the university for “unearned financial aid.” No so...
The University of Wisconsin System has delayed a free speech survey amid criticism from students and faculty. (Chad Zuber / Shutterstock.com) Just days before the launch of a survey on the campus clim...
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 15, 2022 — What do the presidency of William Henry Harrison, the complete voyage of the Mayflower, and the gestation period of Georgetown University’s mascot have in common? T...
Mariupol is hanging by a thread. Russia has been in Donbas since 2014. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. But it continues to get worse. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the second phase...
First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins. It is editorially independent from FIRE. Professor Alan Morrison has argued 20 cases in the S...
Dear Elon Musk, My name is Greg Lukianoff. I’m the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education ( FIRE ), a nonprofit nonpartisan organization. Since 1999, we have helped thousands o...
University of College / Shutterstock.com Emory University School of Law has finally recognized a free speech student group nearly seven months after it first denied their application to formally estab...
We’re also giving Ukraine a bunch of money and equipment. Day 50: It’s been 50 days since Russia launched its full-scale invasion to take over Ukraine. Russia wants Mariupol, but it has already made i...
FRANKFORT, Ky., April 8, 2022 — Today, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear signed into law HB 290 , which provides crucial procedural protections to students at public colleges and universities who are accused...
In May 2021, I published a list of “ Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments ” with our friends over at Areo . The great Nadine Strossen — former president of the ACLU from 1991 to 2008, and one ...
FIRE's 2022 Faculty Network Conference will take place at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. (Andrew Zarivny / Shutterstock.com) After a one-year hiatus in 2020 due to the COVID-19 ...
Yikes, dude. French President Macron said, “Ukrainians and Russians are brotherly peoples.” On Tuesday, President Joe Biden said , “I called it genocide because it’s become clearer and clearer that (R...