FIRE believes higher education can only fulfill its important mission when students can speak their minds. And we’ll defend the rights of all Florida’s students — and all Americans — to speak freely.
More than 70 years ago, California ’s colleges and universities played a shameful role in the effort to suppress academic freedom in the name of anti-communism.
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.
Free speech advocacy is greatly needed at these institutions, and we’re optimistic that our Campus Scholars will help their schools climb in our rankings next year.