New York Gov. Kathy Hochul sent a letter warning the presidents of colleges and universities in New York promised “aggressive enforcement action” against any institution failing to prohibit and punish speech calling for genocide.
The University of Massachusetts Boston has eliminated mandates for faculty applicants to express particular views about diversity, equity, and inclusion after months of back-and-forth with FIRE.
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.
The House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena demanding information from academic researchers studying “misinformation” at Stanford University’s Internet Observatory.