1st Annual "Freedom on Campus" Student Video Contest

Deadline: December 1, 2008

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is pleased to announce its 1st Annual "Freedom on Campus" Student Video Contest. Students from around the country have the opportunity to produce a video about policies or practices that stifle their freedoms on campus and win a scholarship and other exciting prizes.

FIRE is looking for student filmmakers to document a free speech controversy on a college campus-either at their own or at another school-and produce a short film about it. Examples include instances when someone has been punished because of his or her speech, student newspapers have been stolen or vandalized, student groups were not allowed to associate, or where speech was confined to a "free speech zone." To understand more about what FIRE does, view our own documentaries at thefire.org/multimedia.

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FIRE's "Freedom in Academia" Essay Contest

Deadline: November 20, 2008 Deadline Passed

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is pleased to announce its first annual "Freedom in Academia" essay contest. High school seniors from across the U.S. are invited to write an in-depth essay explaining why free speech and First Amendment rights are crucial to higher education and how abuses of these rights harm education.

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