Columbia University

Columbia University has been given a speech code rating of Red. You may read more about this institution's speech code rating at this page.

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• "Most campuses restrict free speech, report finds," The New York Sun, December 7, 2007
• "And the award goes to...," The New York Sun, June 25, 2007
• "Campus Alert: Think like us—or else," New York Post, June 4, 2007
• "Students censured for Minuteman protest," The Flat Hat, March 30, 2007
• "Social justice and political orthodoxy," The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 30, 2007
• "Shut up, Fascist pig," City Journal, November 13, 2006
• "Quick Hits: Columbia University ignores objections to thought reform amid free speech controversy," The Pennsylvania Independent, November 7, 2006
• "Mugging the Minutemen," The Village Voice, November 3, 2006
• "A Columbia expert on free speech is accused of speaking too softly," The New York Times, October 22, 2006
• "The complications of free speech," Inside Higher Ed, October 18, 2006
• "Letting the PC slip show," Townhall.com, October 13, 2006
• "Litmus lesson: Teachers College's political tests," New York Post, October 12, 2006
• "Merit at Columbia," The New York Sun, October 12, 2006
• "University policy draws fire from free-speech advocates," The New York Sun, October 12, 2006

» More Media Coverage of Columbia University

• "Silence From Teachers College," April 16, 2008
• "Nat Hentoff on Columbia and the First Amendment," October 10, 2007
• "Professor, Examine Thyself," October 8, 2007
• "‘Free Speech and Double Standards’," October 3, 2007
• "John Leo on Lee Bollinger," September 28, 2007
• "Ahmadinejad at Columbia Wrapup," September 25, 2007
• "Ahmadinejad at Columbia Roundup," September 24, 2007
• "Columbia Nixes Speech by Minuteman Project Founder, Instead Invites Holocaust Denier," September 20, 2007
• "Minuteman Founder to Speak at Columbia University," September 18, 2007
• "Columbia President Gets Booed, But Does He Get It?," August 30, 2007
• "Today’s ‘Campus Alert’: Think Like Us—Or Else," June 4, 2007
• "‘From the President’ in ‘The FIRE Quarterly’," May 24, 2007
• "Litmus Tests at Teachers College: Changes to Come?," May 17, 2007
• "‘Spectator’: Three Students Censured for Columbia Protest," March 30, 2007
• "FIRE in the ‘Chronicle’ on Political Litmus Tests for Education Students," March 26, 2007
• "Dispositions in Teacher Education: Old Tricks, New Name," March 14, 2007
• "FIRE President to Address Free Speech at Columbia on Tuesday Night," February 19, 2007
• "Columbia to Punish Seven Students for ‘Minuteman Project’ Protest," January 19, 2007
• "Columbia to Punish Violent Protestors," January 4, 2007
• "The Battle against Ideological Litmus Tests for Education Students: A Work in Progress," December 29, 2006
• "Bollinger Releases Statement on October’s Minutemen Protest," December 22, 2006
• "Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee of Censorship Agree: We Hate FIRE!," December 18, 2006
• "NYU President John Sexton: Free Speech Hypocrite," December 11, 2006
• "Why Are We So Afraid of Controversy?," November 20, 2006
• "FIRE Mentioned in ‘Mallard Fillmore’," October 27, 2006
• "NY Post: Columbia Is “A Dubious Neighbor”," October 26, 2006
• " Asking Bollinger to ‘Walk the Walk’ in ‘The New York Times’," October 23, 2006
• "FIRE Responds To Teachers College," October 19, 2006
• "Was What Happened at Columbia ‘Civil Disobedience’?," October 19, 2006
• "‘Hartford Courant’ Opines on Columbia Mishaps," October 17, 2006
• "Columbia, Social Justice, and the Importance of Dissent," October 17, 2006
• "At Columbia Teachers College, a Serious Problem with an Easy Solution," October 16, 2006
• "‘Torch’ Reader Responds To Teachers College Controversy," October 13, 2006
• "FIRE in the New York Post: Columbia’s Teachers College Enforces ‘Thought Control’," October 12, 2006
• "Columbia Continues to Feel the Heat in the ‘Sun’," October 12, 2006
• "More Trouble at Columbia (Part 372)," October 12, 2006
• "New York Civil Rights Coalition Joins FIRE’s Opposition to Thought Reform at Teachers College," October 12, 2006
• "Columbia on ‘The Daily Show’," October 11, 2006
• "Fresh Free Speech Disaster at Columbia: Teachers College Mandates Groupthink," October 11, 2006
• "Columbia Student Senate Committee Votes ‘Yea’ on Free Speech," October 10, 2006
• "Free Speech has Long Been Endangered at Columbia," October 10, 2006
• "Columbia University: The Hits Keep Coming," October 9, 2006
• "Protest Brawl at Columbia: Free Speech Loses," October 6, 2006
• "FIRE Weighs In with Op-Ed on Columbia Hockey Case," October 6, 2006
• "Columbia Students Interrupt Conservative Speech with Chaotic Protest," October 5, 2006
• "Columbia Retreats on Hockey Suspension, but Problems Remain," October 5, 2006
• "New York Civil Rights Coalition to Columbia: “Shocked and Chagrined”," October 3, 2006
• "Associated Press on Columbia Hockey Case," October 2, 2006
• "Columbia Suspends Men’s Ice Hockey Season over “Offensive” Flyer," September 28, 2006
• "Columbia University: Land of the Free?," September 25, 2006
• "Another Absurd ‘McCarthyism’ Complaint," September 6, 2005
• "K. C. Johnson Strikes Again," August 26, 2005
• " [Your College or University Here], Inc.: Corporate Labor Model Threatening Academic Freedom?," May 4, 2005
• "The Attack on ‘Tenured Radicals’: ‘Fairness,’ ‘Civility,’ and Academic Freedom," April 26, 2005
• "Columbia President Recommends a ‘Scholarly Temperament’," April 25, 2005
• "More Students Speaking Out at Columbia," April 21, 2005
• "Job Security = Academic Freedom?," April 19, 2005
• "‘MEALAC, Meet the Students’," April 15, 2005
• "Columbia’s Report: Professors Respond," April 12, 2005
• "Students Critique Diversity and Academic Freedom at Columbia," April 8, 2005
• "Columbia’s Report: A Failure of the Educational Machine," April 7, 2005
• "Columbia Manipulates the Press," April 6, 2005
• "The Columbia Report: An Analysis," April 1, 2005
• "Columbia Releases Report on Recent Controversy over Free Speech, Bias, and Academic Freedom," March 31, 2005
• "Where O Where Have the Students’ Voices Gone?," March 30, 2005
• "More ‘Mallard Fillmore’," March 30, 2005
• "Columbia Dialogues," March 14, 2005
• "Makin’ Some Harvard Lemonade," March 8, 2005
• "Williams: Friend, Not Foe?," March 4, 2005
• "A Puzzling Critique," March 2, 2005
• "Not ‘McCarthyism,’ but...," February 28, 2005
• "International News Lights on FIRE," February 25, 2005
• "Are Things Getting Worse?," February 25, 2005
• "Columbia and McCarthyism," February 24, 2005
• "Feeling ‘Intimidated’ Does Not Equal ‘Intimidation’: FIRE in the ‘Columbia Spectator’," February 18, 2005
• "Conflicts of Interest at Columbia?," February 11, 2005
• "The Paradox of Self-Censorship," February 9, 2005
• "Welcome to ‘The Torch’," February 8, 2005
• "FAIR’s Unfair Critique," February 4, 2005