From securing more than 100 advocacy victories to growing our base of subscribers and followers to more than 800,000, 2023 was a milestone year for FIRE.
Since 1999, FIRE has defended the expressive rights of students and faculty — and like the First Amendment itself, we defend speech without regard to the speaker’s ideology, politics, or viewpoint.
An “academic freedom” forum at Hamline provoked significant backlash for the selection of panelists who were almost uniformly not in favor of robust academic freedom.