Federal judge blasts Trump admin for weaponizing funding against the University of California, ruling its pressure campaign unconstitutional and a threat to campus speech.
A former doctoral student at the Eastman School of Music who was silenced after reporting harassment is standing up for herself in the way she knows best — by conducting a classical music concert in support of free expression.
Rebecca Bryant Novak earned her spot at one of the world’s top music schools. But after reporting her advisor for harassment, she says the school turned on her. Now FIRE is demanding answers.
After an anonymous student complained about the professor’s comments, an attorney with FIRE’s Faculty Legal Defense Fund helped vindicate his right to make his lessons provocative.
The Trump administration announced that it agrees with a federal court ruling that appropriately found the Biden-era Title IX to unconstitutionally restrict student First Amendment rights.
