Since 1999, FIRE has defended the expressive rights of students and faculty — and like the First Amendment itself, we defend speech without regard to the speaker’s ideology, politics, or viewpoint.
An “academic freedom” forum at Hamline provoked significant backlash for the selection of panelists who were almost uniformly not in favor of robust academic freedom.
A new poll finds that Americans hold deeply conflicting views about free speech on campus — wanting colleges and universities to uphold free speech principles while supporting restrictions of student and faculty expression.
It is most commonly estimated that around 100 college professors were fired for real or imagined communist sympathies during the Red Scare. But what if I told you it's worse today, much worse, across multiple important metrics?
University of Louisville investigated a professor and issued him a verbal warning for criticizing administration officials’ approach to judging the Grawemeyer Music Award.
A group of faculty in the California State University system is working to promote free speech and academic freedom throughout the CSU system, and it is starting the school year off right with two new initiatives.
