Columbia University

Trump administration's coercion at Columbia is unlawful and unconstitutional

April 23, 2025

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FIRE statement on immigration judge’s ruling that deportation of Mahmoud Khalil can proceed

April 11, 2025

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FIRE and civil liberties groups challenge 'unconstitutional retaliation' against Mahmoud Khalil

March 20, 2025

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FIRE and coalition partners file brief rebuking the U.S. government for attempting to deport Mahmoud Khalil for his protected speech

March 20, 2025

Press Release

Navigating the Kafkaesque nightmare of Columbia's Office of Institutional Equity

March 12, 2025

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Trump administration’s reasons for detaining Mahmoud Khalil threaten free speech

March 11, 2025

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FIRE demands answers from Trump admin officials on arrest of Mahmoud Khalil

March 10, 2025

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Columbia needs to stop doing politics and start doing higher education

November 4, 2024

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Columbia president resigns: Can this conflict-ridden school shape up on free speech?

August 19, 2024

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Don’t turn commencement season into cancellation season

May 10, 2024

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Campus encampment bans rarely violate the First Amendment. Here’s why.

May 3, 2024

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Whether you call it institutional ‘neutrality’ or ‘restraint,’ the Kalven Report is the best way forward

February 13, 2024

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VICTORY: Columbia University Law School Student Senate grants recognition to Law Students Against Antisemitism

February 12, 2024

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More colleges threaten to restrict speech in wake of Penn president’s resignation

December 18, 2023

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FIRE partners with the New Tolerance Campaign, urges new Columbia president to do better on free speech

July 10, 2023

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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

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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

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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

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Greg to Speak at Columbia Law School Today

March 30, 2009

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Silence From Teachers College

April 16, 2008

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Nat Hentoff on Columbia and the First Amendment

October 10, 2007

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Professor, Examine Thyself

October 8, 2007

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‘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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Columbia Continues to Feel the Heat in the ‘Sun’

October 12, 2006

More Trouble at Columbia (Part 372)

October 12, 2006

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New York Civil Rights Coalition Joins FIRE’s Opposition to Thought Reform at Teachers College

October 12, 2006

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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

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Fresh Free Speech Disaster at Columbia: Teachers College Mandates Groupthink

October 11, 2006

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Columbia Student Senate Committee Votes ‘Yea’ on Free Speech

October 10, 2006

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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

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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

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Associated Press on Columbia Hockey Case

October 2, 2006

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Columbia Suspends Men’s Ice Hockey Season over “Offensive” Flyer

September 28, 2006

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Columbia University: Land of the Free?

September 25, 2006

Another Absurd ‘McCarthyism’ Complaint

September 6, 2005

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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

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Students Critique Diversity and Academic Freedom at Columbia

April 8, 2005

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Columbia’s Report: A Failure of the Educational Machine

April 7, 2005

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Columbia Manipulates the Press

April 6, 2005

The Columbia Report: An Analysis

April 1, 2005

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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

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More ‘Mallard Fillmore’

March 30, 2005

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Columbia Dialogues

March 14, 2005

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Makin’ Some Harvard Lemonade

March 8, 2005

Williams: Friend, Not Foe?

March 4, 2005

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A Puzzling Critique

March 2, 2005

Not ‘McCarthyism,’ but...

February 28, 2005

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International News Lights on FIRE

February 25, 2005

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Are Things Getting Worse?

February 25, 2005

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Columbia and McCarthyism

February 24, 2005

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Defining Free Speech

February 18, 2005

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Feeling ‘Intimidated’ Does Not Equal ‘Intimidation’: FIRE in the ‘Columbia Spectator’

February 18, 2005

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Conflicts of Interest at Columbia?

February 11, 2005

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The Paradox of Self-Censorship

February 9, 2005

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Welcome to ‘The Torch’

February 7, 2005

Blog

FAIR’s Unfair Critique

February 4, 2005

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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

At Last an Opponent for the PC Campus Police

March 15, 2001

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Columbia University unable to defend policy in public

March 12, 2001

Press Release