A new poll finds that Americans hold deeply conflicting views about free speech on campus — wanting colleges and universities to uphold free speech principles while supporting restrictions of student and faculty expression.
It is most commonly estimated that around 100 college professors were fired for real or imagined communist sympathies during the Red Scare. But what if I told you it's worse today, much worse, across multiple important metrics?
In Heim v. Daniel, the Second Circuit court of appeals joins the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth circuits in acknowledging special value of academic speech
Some public universities and other government entities have punished individuals who refuse to use others’ specified pronouns. FIRE explains the serious compelled speech issues raised by pronoun mandates.
University of Louisville investigated a professor and issued him a verbal warning for criticizing administration officials’ approach to judging the Grawemeyer Music Award.
A group of faculty in the California State University system is working to promote free speech and academic freedom throughout the CSU system, and it is starting the school year off right with two new initiatives.
The Israeli government and anti-Semitism advocacy groups had urged removal of the allegedly antisemitic book from a professor’s course reading list — the latest in a national trend of threats to academic freedom.
Presidents from more than a dozen colleges and universities announced the formation of an advocacy campaign, Campus Call for Free Expression, that will promote free expression in higher education and on college campuses.
