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Arizona State University Search all Cases In December 2011, shortly after students created a petition to lower tuition at Arizona State University (ASU) on the petition website Change.org, ASU blocked...
Wright State University Search all Cases After a January 2019 faculty strike by the Wright State University branch of the American Association of University Professors, FIRE issued a public records re...
Saint Louis Community College at Meramec Search all Cases Having already completed his Ph.D at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and postdoctoral work at M.I.T and Columbia University, Jun Xiao was atte...
The Catholic University of America Search all Cases In May 2020, FIRE wrote to The Catholic University of America after John Tieso, an instructor and adjunct assistant professor of business management...
February 3, 2012 President Michael M. Crow Office of the President Arizona State University P.O. Box 877705 Tempe, Arizona 85287 Sent via U.S. Mail, Electronic Mail ([email protected]), and Facsimi...
University of California, Santa Barbara Search all Cases UCSB subjected Professor William Robinson to a months-long investigation after he sent the students in his Sociology of Globalization class an ...
University of California, Santa Barbara Search all Cases The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) has abandoned an attempt to force the owner of a website called The Dark Side of UCSB from u...
October 25, 2010 Nancy Cantor, Chancellor Syracuse University 300 Tolley Administration Building Syracuse, New York 13244 Sent via U.S. Mail and Facsimile ( 315-443-3073) Dear Chancellor Cantor: As yo...
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search all Cases On February 1, 2019, FIRE wrote to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to contest the removal of a student-created website that c...
Ohio University Search all Cases In response to hazing allegations in the fall of 2019, Ohio University sent cease and desist letters to 14 student groups, instructing group members not to “meet in an...
Wilson College Search all Cases FIRE advocated on behalf of Wilson College students who faced university charges of slander, identity theft, and harassment for posting parody materials of a campus adm...
June 10, 2009 Chancellor Henry T. Yang University of California-Santa Barbara Office of the Chancellor 5221 Cheadle Hall Santa Barbara, California 93106 Sent via U.S. Mail and Facsimile (805-893-8717)...
Albion College Search all Cases In September 2017, Albion College student Alexander Tokie emailed his fellow College Republicans with suggestions on countering arguments about “white privilege.” In je...
Glendale Community College Search all Cases After a months-long campaign led by FIRE, the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) reached a settlement with Professor Walter Kehowski, allowi...
Stanford University Search all Cases Stanford University’s Teacher Education Program (STEP) finally let dissenting student-blogger Michele Kerr graduate on June 14, 2009. When Stanford tried to revoke...
Linfield University Search all Cases On April 18, 2017, University of Toronto professor Dr. Jordan Peterson tweeted that he would be “violating some more safe spaces soon” at Linfield College. Linfiel...
See FIRE's tracking of colleges' and universities' responses to Hong Kong National Security Law and other Chinese censorship efforts in education. Read the Press Release The national security law rece...
University of California, Los Angeles Search all Cases On June 3, 2020, Continuing Lecturer Gordon Klein was placed on mandatory leave after an email he sent to a student went viral. The student email...
Wake Forest University Search all Cases In March 2019, a screenshot of an Instagram post was circulated on Twitter, where commenters described the content as “racist.” The post depicted a mock campaig...
Dickinson College Search all Cases In April 2020, Dickinson College’s administration and campus security team sought to identify the anonymous operator of a “menofdickinson” Instagram account, which p...