As a student or a faculty member, you can fight back against campus censors by educating yourself about your rights. FIRE’s website explains many principles of free speech that have been forgotten on today’s campuses and chronicles our ongoing defense of liberty, showing how censorship can be fought on campus. Students and faculty also have access to FIRE’s Guides to Student Rights on Campus, which discuss essential rights and how to defend them on campus.

 

Lastly, students and faculty can fight campus censorship by informing FIRE of abuses. If your campus has a speech code that we have not displayed here, we invite you to let us know. If you wish to submit a case to FIRE, please use FIRE’s case submission form.

Some college administrators, understanding the true role of a university in a free society, want to fight back against the betrayal of liberty on their own campuses. FIRE welcomes as valuable allies those administrators who have the moral clarity to oppose the national scandal of speech codes. If you are an administrator and you wish to let FIRE know about a speech code on your campus, please use the contact fields below to inform us. If your university has changed or abandoned a policy that FIRE criticizes here, please let us know, and we will update our website accordingly. If you wish to discuss the issue of speech codes in general or the circumstances of your own campus, please contact us.

To combat censorship on America’s campuses, FIRE believes that reason, moral argument, and public exposure are more efficient weapons than litigation. However, some colleges and universities will not respect the rights of free expression unless ordered to do so by a judge; therefore, FIRE sometimes finds it necessary to litigate. For this reason, FIRE has created a Legal Network that unites remarkable attorneys from across the country who are willing to offer their services and expertise in the defense of liberty.