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After two-plus years in court, Students for Justice in Palestine wins recognition at Fordham

Joe Catron / Flickr.com Members and supporters of Fordham Students for Justice in Palestine rallied in 2017 on the university's Manhattan campus to protest the Fordham administration's refusal to regi...

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Academic freedom at The New School? Not if you quote an iconic black writer.

Professor Laurie Sheck NEW YORK, Aug. 7, 2019 — Author James Baldwin wrote that Americans need to conduct an “unflinching assessment of the record” in reckoning with the nation’s racial past. But when...

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The Wall Street Journal: 'Bias teams welcome the Class of 1984'

In 2017, FIRE released the first-of-its-kind report on bias reporting systems and “bias response teams” on college campuses, locating 231 of them on both public and private campuses. While the systems...

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South Dakota Board of Regents Takes Major Steps Towards Protecting Campus Free Speech

“public universities in South Dakota will no longer be able to discriminate against ‘any student or student organization’ based on viewpoint or ideology” South Dakota has become a leading state on thi...

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At a university ravaged by white-supremacist violence, free speech prevailed

Kim Kelley-Wagner / Shutterstock.com For millions of Americans, the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia was incredibly shocking, and no one felt this reality more than University of V...

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Introducing the FIRE Model Policy for Allocating Student Fees

In 2015, the University of California-San Diego attempted to silence a satirical student newspaper, The Koala, by defunding all UCSD student media organizations. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Nint...

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In landmark victory for student press rights, Ninth Circuit rebukes UCSD’s censorship of satirical student newspaper

(Stanislavskyi / Shutterstock.com) In a major victory for student press rights, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a First Amendment l...

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Legal Insurrection Foundation opposes proposed anti-Israel public school curriculum in California

Joins over 80 organizations in signing a letter organized by the AMCHA Initiative opposing the proposed California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Legal Insurrection has long tracked and opposed the s...

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FAN 219 Noah Feldman: 2nd Circuit Twitter Ruling Poses "Serious Negative Implications" for Freedom of Speech

First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins. It is editorially independent from FIRE. Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman recently wrote an...

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Preorder now: ‘The Coddling of the American Mind’ available in paperback Aug. 20

“The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure,” The New York Times best selling book written by FIRE President and CEO Greg Lukianoff an...

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50 universities now earn FIRE's highest rating for free speech

Last week, FIRE awarded Mississippi’s Delta State University our “ green light ” rating, meaning the school does not maintain any written policies that seriously infringe on student speech rights. Her...

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Introduction: The Roberts Court – One year after Kennedy’s retirement

Speaking at the judicial conference of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in June, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told her audience that Justice Anthony Kennedy’s 2018 retirement was “the even...

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Clear and Present Danger podcast – Episode 28: Writing on human skin – enlightened despotism, part I, Russia

The Enlightenment’s emphasis on science, progress, tolerance and rationality attracted not only philosophers — even absolute monarchs dreamt of “ Enlightenment Now .” But how do you incorporate the en...

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FAN 218: Knight First Amendment Institute Prevails in 2nd Circuit Trump Twitter Case

“Public officials’ social media accounts are now among the most significant forums for discussion of government policy. This decision will ensure that people aren’t excluded from these forums simply b...

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FIRE relaunches Legal Network, calls on attorneys nationwide to defend student and faculty rights

Student plaintiff Kevin Shaw sued his school for corralling his speech into a tiny, unconstitutional free speech zone. FIRE and our plaintiffs rely on FIRE's Legal Network to defend students and facul...

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South Dakota Board of Regents President to Investigate College Diversity Offices

“will investigate diversity offices on college campuses in the state to see if they are pushing a liberal agenda” There are allegations of political bias which prompted this examination. Shocking, isn...

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University of Central Arkansas censored library’s Pride Month sign after legislator complained

The sign removed from UCA’s Torreyson Library earlier this month. (@UCA_Library/Twitter) Last week, FIRE wrote to the president of the University of Central Arkansas after he censored a Lady Gaga quot...

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Five ways university presidents can prove their commitment to free speech

VIDEO: FIRE President and CEO Greg Lukianoff on five ways college presidents can prove their commitment to free speech. Threats to free speech and academic freedom on campus constantly change: One yea...

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Jerry Falwell Jr., editor-in-chief of a student newspaper, lauds Liberty University’s commitment to free speech, embraces a ‘right’ to censor

Last week, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. boasted that Liberty will “uphold freedom and put its ideals into practice,” recognizing in particular “Liberty students’ right to protest on ...

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DNC Sets Lineup for CNN 2020 Democratic Primary Debates

Andrew Yang and Marianne Williamson made the cut! Round 2….FIGHT! The Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced the 2020 Democratic candidates who reached the threshold to qualify for the second r...

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