Florida Atlantic University: Student Employees Fear Termination for Speaking to Student Journalists

FAU is failing to abide by its own free speech and free press policies.

Wayne State University: Professor Suspended For Provocative Facebook Post Criticizing Campus Shout downs

University suspended professor for a post hyperbolically suggesting that killing a speaker is preferable to shouting them down.

Cornell University: Student Assembly Adopts Resolution Requiring Trigger Warnings

University of Utah: Department of Communication’s Anti-Racist Code of Conduct Ripe For Abuse

Teaser: A department’s Anti-Racist Code of Conduct makes it easy for leadership to violate faculty members’ free speech and academic freedom rights

Spectrum WT v. Walter Wendler: President Cancels Student-Organized Drag Show, Citing Religion, Natural Rights, and Intent to Violate the First Amendment, if Need Be

On March 20, 2023, Walter Wendler, the president of West Texas A&M University, abruptly canceled a drag show that a student group — Spectrum WT, an organization for LGBTQ+ students and their allies — was planning to hold at the public university.

University of South Carolina: University Reverses Course, Recognizes Free Speech Student Group

University initially denied recognition because of purported similarities to another group on campus, but after FIRE’s intervention, it changed its mind.

Eastern Washington University: Professor Blocked on Twitter for Tweets Critical of University

EWU commits to unblocking critics and revising unconstitutional policy

Delaware State University: Confidentiality Agreement Required for Students Joining Campus Safety Committee

FIRE wrote Delaware State University after it required all students seeking to join Safe Space Coalition committees, tasked with assessing campus safety, to sign confidentiality agreements banning them from discussing “​​any and all information related to . . . [their] participation as a committee member.”

University of Denver: Law School Restricts Protests to ‘Free Speech Zones,’ Chills Event Organizers’ Speech

FIRE wrote Denver Law after it restricted the rights of both student event organizers and event protesters.

University of California, Santa Cruz: University’s Restrictions on Interviews with Reporters Violate the First Amendment

UCSC censors not only the press, but also its employees, by requiring interview requests be funneled through administration.