Home Colleges (Find a School) Columbia University Private University New York, New YorkSearch all Schools News Speech Code RatingYellowDue Process Ratings D, F, B Free Speech Rankings 203 of 203 Cases 7 NewsDisinvitationsLeader StatementsScholars Under Fire News FIRE urges 15 top colleges and universities to improve restrictive press policies November 12, 2020 Columbia cannot punish professor who told CUNY student to ‘drop dead’ on social media May 18, 2020 Don’t fall in love with the club that will be used to beat you over the head August 29, 2019 Cancellation of Columbia University event on Turkey’s rule of law raises questions April 3, 2019 Columbia to cover cost of controversial speakers February 2, 2018 In Suspending Wrestling Team for Private Messages, Columbia Goes Too Far November 16, 2016 Columbia Prohibits Recording Gender-Based Misconduct Hearings Despite Student Objections November 1, 2016 Are Columbia’s Speech Codes’ Days Numbered? September 5, 2016 In Ruling with Nationwide Significance, Second Circuit Vacates ‘Doe v. Columbia’ Decision July 29, 2016 Columbia’s Contradiction: University Adopts Free Speech Statement, Keeps Restrictive Speech Codes January 5, 2016 Now That It’s Being Sued, ‘Red Light’ Columbia Cozies Up to Free Speech September 1, 2015 Moral Dumbfounding: The Case Against Intuition August 10, 2015 This Is What a Broken System Looks Like April 28, 2015 Student Journalists Commit to Rigorous Reporting February 4, 2015 Public Presumption of Guilt Motivates Unfair Policies, Even as Details of Sexual Assault Allegations Come to Light February 3, 2015 Columbia Student Urges ‘Free-Speech Renewal’ in 2015 December 31, 2014 Columbia Students and Faculty Eye Policy Reform, But Should Focus on ‘Red Light’ Rating December 9, 2014 Columbia's Slow, Secret Steps Toward Justice; Sexual Misconduct Policy Still a Bizarre Patchwork of Outrages August 5, 2013 Press Release Columbia University Student Points to 'An attitude problem' May 8, 2013 In Defending Free Speech, Bollinger’s Rhetoric Doesn’t Match Results March 22, 2012 Will Columbia University Students Respect Jim Gilchrist’s Right to Free Speech This Time? February 2, 2012 'Columbia Spectator' Examines Student Rights at Columbia March 11, 2010 More Unsavory Disinvitations: This Time, Nonie Darwish at Princeton and Columbia December 10, 2009 Former FIRE Intern Criticizes Columbia's Speech Code and Bureaucracy September 21, 2009 Blog Rights in the News: FIRE Keeps Up The Fight While Taking Message to Vegas and D.C. July 10, 2009 FIRE Intern Examines Columbia’s Speech Codes, Calls for Rescission July 9, 2009 The State of Free Speech on Campus: Columbia University May 11, 2009 Blog Greg to Speak at Columbia Law School Today March 30, 2009 Blog Silence From Teachers College April 16, 2008 Blog Nat Hentoff on Columbia and the First Amendment October 10, 2007 Professor, Examine Thyself October 8, 2007 Blog ‘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 Blog 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 May 24, 2007 Blog Litmus Tests at Teachers College: Changes to Come? May 17, 2007 Social justice and political orthodoxy March 30, 2007 Blog ‘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 Blog FIRE in ‘The New York Times’ on Free Speech at Columbia October 23, 2006 Asking Bollinger to ‘Walk the Walk’ in ‘The New York Times’ October 23, 2006 FIRE Responds To Teachers College October 19, 2006 Blog 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 Blog Columbia Continues to Feel the Heat in the ‘Sun’ October 12, 2006 More Trouble at Columbia (Part 372) October 12, 2006 Blog New York Civil Rights Coalition Joins FIRE’s Opposition to Thought Reform at Teachers College October 12, 2006 Blog FIRE's Challenge to Ideological Litmus Tests at Columbia's Teachers College in the 'New York Post' and 'Sun' October 11, 2006 Columbia on ‘The Daily Show’ October 11, 2006 Blog Fresh Free Speech Disaster at Columbia: Teachers College Mandates Groupthink October 11, 2006 Blog Columbia Student Senate Committee Votes ‘Yea’ on Free Speech October 10, 2006 Blog Free Speech has Long Been Endangered at Columbia October 10, 2006 Columbia University Ignores Objections to Thought Reform Amid Free Speech Controversy October 9, 2006 Press Release Columbia University: The Hits Keep Coming October 9, 2006 Blog Protest Brawl at Columbia: Free Speech Loses October 6, 2006 FIRE Weighs In with Op-Ed on Columbia Hockey Case October 6, 2006 Blog Columbia Students Interrupt Conservative Speech with Chaotic Protest October 5, 2006 Blog Columbia Retreats on Hockey Suspension, but Problems Remain October 5, 2006 Columbia Reinstates Men’s Hockey Club Following Free Speech Controversy October 4, 2006 Press Release New York Civil Rights Coalition to Columbia: “Shocked and Chagrined” October 3, 2006 Blog Associated Press on Columbia Hockey Case October 2, 2006 Blog Columbia Suspends Men’s Ice Hockey Season over “Offensive” Flyer September 28, 2006 Blog Columbia University: Land of the Free? September 25, 2006 Another Absurd ‘McCarthyism’ Complaint September 6, 2005 Blog K. C. Johnson Strikes Again August 26, 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 Blog Students Critique Diversity and Academic Freedom at Columbia April 8, 2005 Blog Columbia’s Report: A Failure of the Educational Machine April 7, 2005 Blog Columbia Manipulates the Press April 6, 2005 The Columbia Report: An Analysis April 1, 2005 Blog 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 Blog More ‘Mallard Fillmore’ March 30, 2005 Blog Columbia Dialogues March 14, 2005 Blog Makin’ Some Harvard Lemonade March 8, 2005 Williams: Friend, Not Foe? March 4, 2005 Blog 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 Blog Defining Free Speech February 18, 2005 Blog 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 Blog Columbia Embroiled in Academic Freedom Controversy; FIRE Defends Student Expression January 10, 2005 Press Release Speech Codes: Alive and Well at Colleges August 1, 2003 Blog Columbia Belatedly Embraces Free Speech, But for Whom? November 7, 2001 Press Release Columbia University Unable to Defend Policy in Public March 12, 2001 Press Release Subscribe to FIRE News Sign Up You are now subscribed to FIRE Updates. Fill out the form below to receive personalized communications or close this window to continue. 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FIRE urges 15 top colleges and universities to improve restrictive press policies November 12, 2020 Columbia cannot punish professor who told CUNY student to ‘drop dead’ on social media May 18, 2020 Don’t fall in love with the club that will be used to beat you over the head August 29, 2019 Cancellation of Columbia University event on Turkey’s rule of law raises questions April 3, 2019 Columbia to cover cost of controversial speakers February 2, 2018 In Suspending Wrestling Team for Private Messages, Columbia Goes Too Far November 16, 2016 Columbia Prohibits Recording Gender-Based Misconduct Hearings Despite Student Objections November 1, 2016 Are Columbia’s Speech Codes’ Days Numbered? September 5, 2016 In Ruling with Nationwide Significance, Second Circuit Vacates ‘Doe v. Columbia’ Decision July 29, 2016 Columbia’s Contradiction: University Adopts Free Speech Statement, Keeps Restrictive Speech Codes January 5, 2016 Now That It’s Being Sued, ‘Red Light’ Columbia Cozies Up to Free Speech September 1, 2015 Moral Dumbfounding: The Case Against Intuition August 10, 2015 This Is What a Broken System Looks Like April 28, 2015 Student Journalists Commit to Rigorous Reporting February 4, 2015 Public Presumption of Guilt Motivates Unfair Policies, Even as Details of Sexual Assault Allegations Come to Light February 3, 2015 Columbia Student Urges ‘Free-Speech Renewal’ in 2015 December 31, 2014 Columbia Students and Faculty Eye Policy Reform, But Should Focus on ‘Red Light’ Rating December 9, 2014 Columbia's Slow, Secret Steps Toward Justice; Sexual Misconduct Policy Still a Bizarre Patchwork of Outrages August 5, 2013 Press Release Columbia University Student Points to 'An attitude problem' May 8, 2013 In Defending Free Speech, Bollinger’s Rhetoric Doesn’t Match Results March 22, 2012 Will Columbia University Students Respect Jim Gilchrist’s Right to Free Speech This Time? February 2, 2012 'Columbia Spectator' Examines Student Rights at Columbia March 11, 2010 More Unsavory Disinvitations: This Time, Nonie Darwish at Princeton and Columbia December 10, 2009 Former FIRE Intern Criticizes Columbia's Speech Code and Bureaucracy September 21, 2009 Blog Rights in the News: FIRE Keeps Up The Fight While Taking Message to Vegas and D.C. July 10, 2009 FIRE Intern Examines Columbia’s Speech Codes, Calls for Rescission July 9, 2009 The State of Free Speech on Campus: Columbia University May 11, 2009 Blog Greg to Speak at Columbia Law School Today March 30, 2009 Blog Silence From Teachers College April 16, 2008 Blog Nat Hentoff on Columbia and the First Amendment October 10, 2007 Professor, Examine Thyself October 8, 2007 Blog ‘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 Blog 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 May 24, 2007 Blog Litmus Tests at Teachers College: Changes to Come? May 17, 2007 Social justice and political orthodoxy March 30, 2007 Blog ‘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 Blog FIRE in ‘The New York Times’ on Free Speech at Columbia October 23, 2006 Asking Bollinger to ‘Walk the Walk’ in ‘The New York Times’ October 23, 2006 FIRE Responds To Teachers College October 19, 2006 Blog 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 Blog Columbia Continues to Feel the Heat in the ‘Sun’ October 12, 2006 More Trouble at Columbia (Part 372) October 12, 2006 Blog New York Civil Rights Coalition Joins FIRE’s Opposition to Thought Reform at Teachers College October 12, 2006 Blog FIRE's Challenge to Ideological Litmus Tests at Columbia's Teachers College in the 'New York Post' and 'Sun' October 11, 2006 Columbia on ‘The Daily Show’ October 11, 2006 Blog Fresh Free Speech Disaster at Columbia: Teachers College Mandates Groupthink October 11, 2006 Blog Columbia Student Senate Committee Votes ‘Yea’ on Free Speech October 10, 2006 Blog Free Speech has Long Been Endangered at Columbia October 10, 2006 Columbia University Ignores Objections to Thought Reform Amid Free Speech Controversy October 9, 2006 Press Release Columbia University: The Hits Keep Coming October 9, 2006 Blog Protest Brawl at Columbia: Free Speech Loses October 6, 2006 FIRE Weighs In with Op-Ed on Columbia Hockey Case October 6, 2006 Blog Columbia Students Interrupt Conservative Speech with Chaotic Protest October 5, 2006 Blog Columbia Retreats on Hockey Suspension, but Problems Remain October 5, 2006 Columbia Reinstates Men’s Hockey Club Following Free Speech Controversy October 4, 2006 Press Release New York Civil Rights Coalition to Columbia: “Shocked and Chagrined” October 3, 2006 Blog Associated Press on Columbia Hockey Case October 2, 2006 Blog Columbia Suspends Men’s Ice Hockey Season over “Offensive” Flyer September 28, 2006 Blog Columbia University: Land of the Free? September 25, 2006 Another Absurd ‘McCarthyism’ Complaint September 6, 2005 Blog K. C. Johnson Strikes Again August 26, 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 Blog Students Critique Diversity and Academic Freedom at Columbia April 8, 2005 Blog Columbia’s Report: A Failure of the Educational Machine April 7, 2005 Blog Columbia Manipulates the Press April 6, 2005 The Columbia Report: An Analysis April 1, 2005 Blog 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 Blog More ‘Mallard Fillmore’ March 30, 2005 Blog Columbia Dialogues March 14, 2005 Blog Makin’ Some Harvard Lemonade March 8, 2005 Williams: Friend, Not Foe? March 4, 2005 Blog 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 Blog Defining Free Speech February 18, 2005 Blog 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 Blog Columbia Embroiled in Academic Freedom Controversy; FIRE Defends Student Expression January 10, 2005 Press Release Speech Codes: Alive and Well at Colleges August 1, 2003 Blog Columbia Belatedly Embraces Free Speech, But for Whom? November 7, 2001 Press Release Columbia University Unable to Defend Policy in Public March 12, 2001 Press Release
Columbia Prohibits Recording Gender-Based Misconduct Hearings Despite Student Objections November 1, 2016
In Ruling with Nationwide Significance, Second Circuit Vacates ‘Doe v. Columbia’ Decision July 29, 2016
Columbia’s Contradiction: University Adopts Free Speech Statement, Keeps Restrictive Speech Codes January 5, 2016
Public Presumption of Guilt Motivates Unfair Policies, Even as Details of Sexual Assault Allegations Come to Light February 3, 2015
Columbia Students and Faculty Eye Policy Reform, But Should Focus on ‘Red Light’ Rating December 9, 2014
Columbia's Slow, Secret Steps Toward Justice; Sexual Misconduct Policy Still a Bizarre Patchwork of Outrages August 5, 2013 Press Release
Will Columbia University Students Respect Jim Gilchrist’s Right to Free Speech This Time? February 2, 2012
Columbia Nixes Speech by Minuteman Project Founder, Instead Invites Holocaust Denier September 20, 2007
The Battle against Ideological Litmus Tests for Education Students: A Work in Progress December 29, 2006
FIRE in the New York Post: Columbia’s Teachers College Enforces ‘Thought Control’ October 12, 2006 Blog
New York Civil Rights Coalition Joins FIRE’s Opposition to Thought Reform at Teachers College October 12, 2006 Blog
FIRE's Challenge to Ideological Litmus Tests at Columbia's Teachers College in the 'New York Post' and 'Sun' October 11, 2006
Columbia University Ignores Objections to Thought Reform Amid Free Speech Controversy October 9, 2006 Press Release
Columbia Reinstates Men’s Hockey Club Following Free Speech Controversy October 4, 2006 Press Release
Columbia Releases Report on Recent Controversy over Free Speech, Bias, and Academic Freedom March 31, 2005
Feeling ‘Intimidated’ Does Not Equal ‘Intimidation’: FIRE in the ‘Columbia Spectator’ February 18, 2005
Columbia Embroiled in Academic Freedom Controversy; FIRE Defends Student Expression January 10, 2005 Press Release
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