After FIRE raised the alarm about Delaware State imposing sweeping confidentiality agreements on students serving on campus safety committees, the school rescinded the ban and promised to foster institutional transparency going forward.
Over the years, Syracuse has earned its dystopian reputation for free speech, punishing students for parody blogs, satirical skits, Halloween costumes, Facebook comments, sharp questions, words they didn’t say, and now, scavenger hunts.
Two Tennessee Tech professors distributed “Game of Thrones” parody flyers criticizing a professor and local politician for supporting the university’s Turning Point USA conservative student group
Burdensome, intrusive open records requests chill academic freedom by forcing faculty to disclose private academic records related to teaching and research.
Chinese students posted flyers critical of the Chinese Communist Party across George Washington University’s Foggy Bottom campus. They were then torn down.
After FIRE criticized the medical school for appearing to force students to profess political views, the university affirmed the oath was not required.
After protests disrupted constitutional scholar Ilya Shapiro at a campus event in March, UC Hastings promised to revise its policies to protect free speech