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FIRE’s Spotlight Widgets
In addition to FIRE's Red Alert widget and Speech Code of the Month widget, FIRE also has a widget for each of the schools we rate in our Spotlight database. The speech code widget features FIRE's iconic traffic light graphic indicating a Spotlight rating of red, yellow, or green. The colored lights represent the extent to which the school's policies protect freedom of speech. (For more information on FIRE's rating system, click here; for more information on FIRE's widgets, click here.)
To add the widget for your school to your website, here's all you need to do:
- Visit thefire.org/spotlight and select your school by state, region, or just by typing it into the search box.
- When your school's page comes up, look on the right sidebar to see the widget for that particular school. Below it is a box with some text in it-select it all and copy it to the clipboard.
- Go to your blog or website, and paste in the text wherever you want the widget to appear (it's made for a sidebar, but should work anywhere).
- Send us a link to your site with the widget posted on it, your mailing address and your t-shirt size.
Then we'll send you a free FIRE t-shirt!
Recent Articles
FIRE’s award-winning Newsdesk covers the free speech news you need to stay informed.

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Always room for improvement: FIRE’s top-ranked school drops the ball by denying TPUSA chapter recognition
The University of Chicago uncharacteristically violated its students’ associational rights by denying recognition to a chapter of the conservative group Turning Point USA.

Enduring lessons from Nat Hentoff’s 1982 ‘The Day They Came to Arrest the Book’
Nat Hentoff’s 1982 Young Adult fiction book, “The Day They Came to Arrest the Book,” follows high school student newspaper editor Barney Roth as he navigates writing about and advocating for his teacher’s right to teach Huck Finn.