New FIRE report finds 85% of top colleges have restrictive speech codes

FIRE’s 2024 Spotlight on Speech Codes report rates 489 of America’s top colleges and universities on the degree to which their policies restrict student speech.

VICTORY! University of Missouri clarifies policy forcing student journalists to name confidential sources

Victims at Mizzou are now free to share their stories with reporters without fear that an interview will launch an institutional investigation.

What is the reach of free speech after the Dobbs abortion ruling? Part 2 — FAN 347

First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins and is editorially independent from FIRE.

Glenville State University says offensive name calling, jokes, pictures, and objects are sexual harassment ‘in any setting’ 

Glenville State doesn’t appear in FIRE’s Spotlight database, but instead was reviewed as a part of a recent report on the speech codes at West Virginia institutions.

Callin' Baton Rouge: New Louisiana laws protect student free speech and due process rights

California bill doubles down on unconstitutional sexual harassment definition

Federal appeals court declines to impose grade school standards on college students in First Amendment win over the University of Central Florida

The Eleventh Circuit panel unanimously reversed a lower court decision which left a policy in place threatening First Amendment rights on campus.

Fifteen state AGs side with FIRE on Title IX rulemaking, voice concern about impact on free speech and due process rights

The Department of Education announced late last year that it planned to release a notice of proposed rulemaking for Title IX by April.

Georgia improves upon free speech law by enacting FORUM Act

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed the FORUM Act, which makes significant improvements upon a campus speech bill passed in 2018.

University of North Texas’s student government latest to waver in commitment to viewpoint neutrality 

The University of North Texas’s student government passed a resolution that calls into question its commitment to allocate student funds on a viewpoint-neutral basis.