The Board of Directors of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education announces, with the deepest satisfaction, the appointment of David A. French as FIRE's president.
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights dismissed a complaint against Harvard University over revisions to Harvard’s disciplinary procedures.
Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education celebrates the formal launch of the FIRE Guides to Student Rights on Campus and of the Guides.
On Feb. 20, 2003, the Department of Justice issued a 50-count indictment against University of South Florida Professor Sami Al-Arian on charges related to terrorism.
Harvard would do well to re-think all of its disciplinary policies and procedures, which have been notoriously deficient for both complainant and defendant for decades.
The University of South Florida fired a tenured professor on the grounds that outside criticism of his views had created too much of a "disruption" to uphold his constitutional and moral rights of free speech and lawful political activity.
