FIRE launches initiative to defend campus free expression across borders
Partnerships between universities and foreign governments or non-governmental organizations offer important opportunities to students and faculty. However, these partnerships can also present serious risks to academic freedom and expressive rights.
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Category: Newsdesk, Press Releases, Top Story
Cases: FIRE Launches Campaign Defending Expressive Rights Across Borders
Pakistan cites ‘hate speech’ restriction in effort to censor academic freedom petition
Pakistan officials claimed a letter from dozens of faculty members decrying censorship and declaring their right to engage in scholarship should be censored
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So to Speak podcast: From black armbands to the U.S. Supreme Court
Mary Beth Tinker, namesake of the “Tinker” decision, continues to be a free speech icon.
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Texas A&M rated best in Texas for campus speech policies
When it comes to protecting free speech on campus, no one in Texas beats the Aggies. Texas A&M University has earned the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s highest rating for maintaining policies that protect student and faculty free speech.
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Category: Newsdesk, Press Releases, Top Story Schools: Texas A&M University – College Station
Still looking for a New Year’s resolution? Improve the state of free expression on your campus!
Physical health and wellness are important, but what about the health of our civil liberties?
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Speech Code of the Month: University of Southern California
During a recent update of the USC’s entry, we found that the school changed a policy to now force students to get permission two weeks in advance before holding any sort of demonstration.
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Category: Newsdesk, Speech Code of the Month, Top Story Schools: University of Southern California
Further reforms needed in South Dakota Board of Regents’ speech policies
FIRE wrote about some positive developments to the new speech policies adopted by the South Dakota Board of Regents, but we still have some important concerns.
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Category: Newsdesk, Top Story Schools: South Dakota State University
‘Sokal Squared’ hoax paper prof facing discipline for not having research reviewed by institutional review board
PSU prof. Peter Boghossian, who was a participant in the “Sokal Squared” hoax last year, is now facing discipline for his involvement.
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Category: Newsdesk, Top Story Schools: Portland State University
VICTORY: Chicago State to rewrite policies, pay $650,000 to settle professors’ First Amendment lawsuit
CHICAGO, Jan. 8, 2018 — Chicago State University has agreed to pay $650,000 to settle a First Amendment lawsuit filed by faculty after administrators tried to silence a blog critical of the then-sitting CSU administration. The lawsuit was one of four filed on July 1, 2014, that launched the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s Stand Up For Speech Litigation Project.
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Schools: Chicago State University
Cases: FIRE’s Stand Up For Speech Litigation Project
Chicago State University – Stand Up For Speech Lawsuit
Brush up on First Amendment facts with FIREStarter videos
Watch FIRE’s new FIREStarter videos and enhance your understanding of some of the bedrock cases underpinning our constitutional right to free expression.
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