Having a Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression staffer come to your event to speak is an excellent opportunity to bring positive change to the state of freedom of speech and expression in America.
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FIRE’s mission is to defend and sustain the individual rights of all Americans to free speech and free thought—the most essential qualities of liberty.
- Coddling of the American Mind
- Canceling of the American Mind
- Cancel culture
- Promoting a culture of free expression
- Free speech on campus
- Viewpoint diversity
- Current free speech trends
- Free speech on campus
- Free speech in media
- Free speech on campus / grade school
- Why free speech is worth fighting for
- Free speech and social media
- Free speech and its exceptions
- Free speech in media
- Free speech on campus
- Free speech in public forums
- Commercial speech
- Freedom of information
- Book censorship
- Free speech in the digital age
- Sex and censorship
- Comedy and the First Amendment
Our Campus Rights Advocacy team provides free assistance to students and faculty facing civil liberties violations on America’s college and university campuses.
- Free speech on campus
- Campus protest
- Student press freedom
- Media law for student journalists
- Free speech on campus
- Freedom of speech in American political thought
- Mobilizing for speech reform on campus
- Free speech on campus
- Academic freedom and faculty rights
- Due process on campus
- Freedom of association
- Fraternities, Sororities, and student group rights
- Free speech on campus
- Current free speech trends
- Faculty speech rights: A primer
- Media law
- Free speech on campus
- Free speech in the digital age
- Free speech on campus
- Why protect hate speech?
- Due process on campus
- Academic freedom and faculty rights
- Free speech on campus
- Due process on campus
- Free speech in the digital age
- Navigating campus speech policies
- Mobilizing for free speech on campus
- Art censorship, past and present
- Civil discourse workshops and trainings
- Free expression in literary history
FIRE's litigation team seeks to protect Americans’ free speech rights by defending them in the courts and creating lasting legal precedents. Our lawyers also work to position FIRE as a thought leader in First Amendment jurisprudence by submitting amicus briefs in strategically chosen cases and publishing legal scholarship.
- When to Pull the FIRE Alarm
- First Amendment in the digital age
- Free speech on campus
- Due process on campus
- Free speech in the digital age
- Social media regulation
- DEI requirements
- Free speech on campus
- Right to protest
- Free speech training for college administrators
- Copyright and free speech
- Public forums: Free expression on government property
FIRE's vision is an America in which people overwhelmingly believe in the right of others to freely express views different from their own, and expect their laws and educational institutions to reflect and teach this belief.
- Free speech on campus
- Free speech in media
- Higher education and authoritarianism
- China and campus censorship
- Authoritarian censorship in free countries
- The state of global censorship today
- Free expression in the arts
- Communicating across political, ideological, and cultural differences
- Free speech in the digital age
- Social media and digital advocacy
- US History & the 1st Amendment
FIRE works closely with lawmakers across the country and political spectrum to protect civil liberties.
- Free speech on campus
- Due process on campus
- Free speech in the digital age
- Navigating campus speech policies
Our Legislative Policy Reform team supports FIRE’s mission on both a state and federal level by advocating on behalf of rights-protective legislation and against proposed laws that threaten student and faculty rights.
FIRE’s college policy reform team works to proactively and systematically challenge campus policies that violate college students’ and faculty members’ free speech rights.
- Identifying restrictive speech policies
- Rewriting speech codes on campus
- Collaborating with campus administrators on reform efforts
- Implementing educational programming on free speech topics
- Free speech on campus
- Revising restrictive speech policies
- Getting involved in policy reform efforts on campus
- Crafting and advocating for free expression statements
FIRE catalogs campus speech codes — policies that impermissibly regulate or restrict student expression — at hundreds of American colleges and universities. Use these model policies to improve speech codes on your campus.
Data fuels FIRE’s policy awareness and college reform advocacy efforts, giving us the ability to directly work with administrators to offer analysis and advice.
- College Free Speech Rankings
- How to leverage FIRE's data
- Campus deplatforming & the heckler's veto
- Misconceptions about campus censorship
- Free speech trends on campus
- Free speech in the digital age
- Current free speech trends on campus
Explore FIRE's expansive library of research and reports on free speechand other civil liberties.
- Free speech in K-12 schools
- Free speech in the digital age
- The First Amendment and municipal government
- Importance of a free speech culture
- Free expression in the arts
- Building a free speech coalition
- Free speech
- Intellectual freedom
- Civil discourse
- History & future of free speech
- Free speech and racial justice
- Free speech in the digital age
- Free speech in Europe vs. the US
- Free speech and human rights
