Table of Contents
SCC Reverses Speech Decision
Seminole Community College did an about-face last week in a dispute over free speech. It originally refused to let a student hand out animal-rights brochures in the café at its Oviedo campus. The student could do that, but only in a designated "free-speech zone," administrators had said. They changed their position after a national group, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, took them on. The school says it will now re-evaluate its free-speech policies.
Recent Articles
FIRE’s award-winning Newsdesk covers the free speech news you need to stay informed.
UNC Chapel Hill trustees vote unanimously to establish School of Civic Life and Leadership
The School of Civic Life and Leadership at UNC Chapel Hill will features courses on history, literature, and political science, and will provide a space for students to “explore American civic values with the full freedom of expression."
Stanford says it’s not punishing the student photographed reading ‘Mein Kampf.’ Here’s why that’s not good enough.
University responds to FIRE’s letter by insisting that no student is being “punished or investigated for reading a book,” instead citing concerns raised by other students about a social media photo.
University of Florida to ‘investigate’ pro-Kanye chalk messages for anti-Semitism
On Feb. 1, chalk appeared on the University of Florida campus reading “Ye is Right,” “Students for Ye,” “Ye 24,” and “Ye for President.”
‘So to Speak’ podcast transcript: Artificial intelligence: Is it protected by the First Amendment?
What does the rise of artificial intelligence mean for the future of free speech and the First Amendment?