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How ‘anti-woke’ laws and cancel culture combine to chill classroom speech

October 24, 2025

Analysis

How Gov. Shapiro’s role at Penn puts free speech and institutional autonomy at risk

September 16, 2025

Analysis

To speak or not to speak: Universities face the Kalven question

July 1, 2025

Blog

Amy Wax is academic freedom's canary in the coal mine

September 24, 2024

News

FIRE statement on University of Pennsylvania sanctions against Amy Wax

September 23, 2024

Statement

Did Penn just squash free speech rights to avoid more pro-Palestinian protests?

June 11, 2024

Analysis

Amy Wax hearing report confirms fears over erosion of academic freedom at Penn

March 4, 2024

News

Alumni in action at the University of Pennsylvania

January 18, 2024

News

Penn faculty call for ‘New Constitution’ recommitting university to free speech principles

December 14, 2023

News

FIRE urges Reps to vote NO on House resolution targeting university presidents

December 13, 2023

News

FIRE statement: Penn resignations can be exactly what the university needs to restore free expression

December 9, 2023

Statement

Why (most) calls for genocide are protected speech

December 8, 2023

Analysis

Penn President Liz Magill signals profoundly misguided willingness to abandon free expression

December 6, 2023

Statement

FIRE to Congress, university presidents: Don’t expand censorship. End it.

December 6, 2023

News

Q&A: Amy Wax talks accusations and academic freedom in new FIRE webinar

April 18, 2023

News

10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech: 2023

February 2, 2023

News

Penn Law dean asks for ‘major sanction’ against professor Amy Wax, creating tenure threat for all Penn faculty

July 13, 2022

News

Penn caves to pressure, initiates disciplinary proceedings against tenured law professor Amy Wax

January 18, 2022

News

By pressuring Penn, Philadelphia City Council threatens faculty speech rights

January 13, 2022

FOWL PLAY: University of Pennsylvania denies hunting club official recognition

March 17, 2021

Press Release

When it comes to its free speech hypocrisy, Penn doesn’t get it... or doesn’t care.

December 13, 2019

Penn Law dean attends student town hall to ‘address the Amy Wax situation’

September 20, 2019

CIA Director’s Talk Shut Down by Protesters at Penn

April 4, 2016

The Blue Scare on Campuses: The Administration’s Role in Quieting Difficult Discussions

July 13, 2015

Defense Attorneys Criticize Penn’s New Plan for Handling Allegations of Sexual Assault

February 26, 2015

Penn Law Profs Write Open Letter on Problems with Sexual Assault Policy

February 19, 2015

Is Due Process in Danger at Penn?

November 4, 2014

Introducing FIRE Summer Intern Laura Sorice

June 13, 2014

What Makes a 'Green Light' Computer Use Policy?

January 10, 2014

FIRE Names Seven Best Schools for Free Speech on 'Huffington Post'

August 2, 2013

Press Release

Liberty requires tough choices: The student funding dilemma

July 31, 2013

News

'Philadelphia Magazine' on 20 Years of Political Correctness and 'Unlearning Liberty'

May 3, 2013

Tyga Comes to Campus: Penn Students Call for Dialogue, Harvard Students Call for Cancellation

April 3, 2013

FIRE President Greg Lukianoff Speaking at Penn Tomorrow

April 1, 2013

We Are All Blasphemers: A Response to Eric Posner

September 26, 2012

Blog

Robert Shibley Blogs for ‘College Insurrection’

September 14, 2012

Blog

Celebrating Penn’s Protection of Controversial Speech

February 14, 2012

The State of Free Speech on Campus: University of Pennsylvania

May 18, 2009

Greg Speaking at the University of Pennsylvania Tonight

September 23, 2008

U. of Delaware Story Hits Student Press

November 9, 2007

‘Daily Pennsylvanian’ Comments on Penn’s Green Light Rating

February 14, 2007

FIRE, Carol Iannone, and the Amy Gutmann Halloween Costume Controversy

November 7, 2006

Count Gutmann Among the Offended

November 3, 2006

Celebrating One Year of ‘The Torch’

February 28, 2006

News

Penn Drops Charges Against Student Who Posted Online Photos of Nude Couple

December 4, 2005

Blog

Staying Focused in the Penn Case

December 2, 2005

Disturbing Indeed

December 2, 2005

Penn Abuses Its Sexual Harassment Policy

December 1, 2005

A Not-So-Happy Easter at Penn Law

March 31, 2005

Blog

At Last an Opponent for the PC Campus Police

March 15, 2001

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