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Penn Law dean Theodore Ruger did an about-face, abandoned his defense of academic freedom and announced disciplinary charges against professor Amy Wax. Read more

Board of trustees sent faculty an email insisting they “must stop” criticizing outgoing college president Jermaine Williams. Nassau Community College Read more

New policy comes after Washington and Lee barred College Republicans from displaying campaign materials before Virginia’s 2021 gubernatorial election, Read more

A professor at Ferris State University finally made the notoriously boring syllabus week entertaining this semester. Read more

In a series of arresting ads that strike at the necessity of preserving and defending free speech rights, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education will launch its first national advertising campaign this weekend. Read more

The day before Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, he met with lawyers to discuss an "illegal, unconstitutional injunction." Read more

Two months after Duke’s student government denied recognition to a pro-Israel club based on disagreement with one of the club’s social media posts, Duke’s Students Supporting Israel chapter remains unrecognized by the university. This week, however, Kentucky Sen. — and Duke alumnus — Rand Paul has joined the calls of FIRE and other civil liberties... Read more Read more

A New York court recently held that the firings of 4 music professors from the College of Saint Rose unlawfully violated the institution’s faculty manual. Read more

One UW administrator is digging in after FIRE sent a letter calling out the university's repressive rule regarding land acknowledgment. Read more

Greg Lukianoff and Nadine Strossen answer the charge that free speech is just a conservative talking point. Read more