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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...
March 8, 2010 President Robert J. Dillman Office of the President East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania 200 Prospect Street East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania 18301 Sent via U.S. Mail and Facsimile ...
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s “ Commitment to Campus Free Expression at Home and Abroad ” offers universities a guiding principle to embrace in its agreements and contracts with ...
Media: To download any of these photos of plaintiff Edward Si, click on the photo. Then, in the box that opens, right-click and click “Save Image As…”. FIRE grants permission to publish any of these p...
Queens, New York Search all Schools St. John's University has not been given a speech code rating. To request speech code information about this school, please submit a speech code request form . St. ...
Frostburg State University Search all Cases In November 2020, immediately after student journalist Cassie Conklin’s critical reporting on Frostburg State University was highlighted by the Baltimore Su...
Haskell Indian Nations University Search all Cases On April 8, 2020, Haskell Indian Nations University (HINU) student Russell Parker was golfing on his nearly-empty campus when a staff member ordered ...
St. John's University Search all Cases In September 2020, graduate student and adjunct History professor Richard Taylor taught a lesson about the history of the “Columbian Exchange,” the transfer of b...
Duquesne University Search all Cases In September 2020, Duquesne University suspended education psychology professor Gary Shank after a student posted a recording of Shank’s class to Twitter, in which...
Fordham University Search all Cases Student Austin Tong, a Chinese-American immigrant, posted an Instagram photo of himself holding a gun in his backyard on the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Squar...
New York University Search all Cases NYU Grossman School of Medicine insisted that its faculty members, many of them serving on the front lines of the coronavirus response, follow a restrictive media ...
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Search all Schools Duquesne University has not been given a speech code rating. To request speech code information about this school, please submit a speech code request form ...
Media: To download any of these photos of plaintiff Lora Burnett, click on the photo. Then, in the box that opens, right-click and click “Save Image As…”. FIRE grants permission to publish any of thes...
Western Washington University Search all Cases After receiving a parking ticket from WWU's Parking Services Division in September 2011, student Jacob Ramirez sent in his payment via personal check, wr...
University of Georgia Search all Cases On August 17, 2010, University of Georgia graduate student Jacob Lovell e-mailed UGA Parking Services with a joking complaint about what he perceived to be its p...
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...
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...