Law, Courts & Regulations
You’ve got your student group together for a fair and free discussion, and you want to make sure the conversation focuses on content rather than conceit. Logical fallacies often produce confusing, cir...
Civil discourse games are a great way to launch casual discussions on campus about difficult topics. We’ve suggested a few in this guide to campus conversations, but we encourage you to try to come up...
The goal of every Let’s Talk group is to promote civil discourse to a larger audience. With your leadership, your group will engage students in thorough, constructive, and vibrant discussion about tou...
The majority-white state of Santa Catarina enacted a January law that banned race-based affirmative action at public universities and state-funded colleges, despite precedent that such systems are con...
FIRE’s Let’s Talk program provides students with tools to work towards a more intellectually open campus environment. It is essential to create spaces on our college and university campuses for health...
Looking to spread the word about your civil discourse group? Below are some flyers that you can print out and pass around your campus! Feel free to write in your group’s information in the blank boxes...
It is difficult to keep a cool head when discussing a heated topic, but respectful dialogues are the key to reaching mutual understanding. Civil discourse involves conversations in which there is a mu...
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Texas reviews result in course cancellations, alterations to root out disfavored views on race and gender. During the fall 2025 semester, six Texas public university systems instituted sweeping mandat...
Bradenton, Florida Search all Schools State College of Florida, Manatee–Sarasota has not been given a speech code rating. To request speech code information about this school, please submit a speech c...
This report tells of some of the controversies that FIRE has highlighted or intervened in over the nearly two decades we have spent fighting for freedom of speech on campuses. The artwork described he...
The city and the homeless residents agreed on a settlement meant to improve safe parking lots more than a year ago.
State College of Florida, Manatee–Sarasota Search all Cases In early 2022, the State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota invited Embracing Our Differences to host an art exhibition on its Bradenton c...
Crete, Nebraska Search all Schools Doane University has not been given a speech code rating. To request speech code information about this school, please submit a speech code request form . Doane Univ...
Hamline University Search all Cases In December 2022, reports circulated that Hamline University nonrenewed art history instructor Erika López Prater for showing medieval artwork of the Islamic prophe...
Amendments proposed by Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger could delay collective bargaining and impact the makeup of a labor oversight board, among other changes.
The Supreme Court unanimously reversed a lower court ruling Friday, allowing oil and gas companies to move a lawsuit over Louisiana coastal damage to federal court. The case, stemming from World War I...
Asia Carrera, a retired adult film actress who graduated from St. Mary's Law in 2024, has successfully passed the Texas bar exam on her second attempt. The February 2026 exam marked a personal victory...
Moscow, Idaho Search all Schools University of Idaho has been given the speech code rating Yellow. Yellow light colleges and universities are those institutions with at least one ambiguous policy that...
Operations of the Santa Ynez pipeline system have been halted by a federal consent decree since a 2015 oil spill. Last month, the Trump administration ordered production to restart.