ast week FIRE asked the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to “take action against political litmus tests in America’s schools of social work.”
FIRE and the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy released their Report on the State of the First Amendment in the University of North Carolina System.
Former Occidental College student Jason Antebi filed suit against his alma mater for an array of abuses it has taken FIRE the past months to fully recount.
At Washington University, students also engaged in school-directed lobbying of the state legislature on behalf of university-approved positions as part of a course for credit.
The School of Social Work at Rhode Island College has threatened to reduce a student’s grades if he chooses not to lobby the Rhode Island legislature for policies with which he disagrees.