Cornell President Martha E. Pollack announced this week a university-wide initiative to explore the theme of free expression and academic freedom throughout the 2023-24 academic year.
Jenny Martinez’s 10-page tour-de-force on free speech in higher ed addresses the backlash and paves a path forward. Time will tell if Stanford Law students will take it.
The Madison Cabinet for Free Speech and Accountability at James Madison University is the latest alumni group to demonstrate its belief in free speech to its alma mater.
Faculty at Hamline University voted Monday to ask President Fayneese Miller to step down after the president’s failure to support art history instructor Erika López Prater’s academic freedom rights.
FIRE co-founder Harvey Silverglate is a criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer and a fierce defender of free speech. Now, he is running for the Harvard Board of Overseers.
FIRE’s research reveals that nearly 90% of the nation’s largest and prestigious universities maintain at least one policy that limits protected speech.