There are many lessons to be learned from the battle at the University of Colorado at Boulder over whether professor Ward Churchill should be dismissed.
For those who are new to FIRE and our mission, one thing that you will repeatedly hear us say in response to cries for censorship is: “The cure for bad speech is more speech, or better speech.”
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.
University of South Florida has abandoned its claim that negative reactions to Professor Sami Al-Arian's otherwise protected speech constituted appropriate grounds to fire him.
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.
