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Explore FIRE's library of resources and research on free speech and other civil liberties.

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2025 College Free Speech Rankings

The largest report of its kind, the 2025 College Free Speech Rankings draw from more than 58,000 student survey responses at 257 colleges and universities and are designed to help parents and prospective students choose the right school.

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National Speech Index

The National Speech Index is an ongoing weekly survey conducted by the Polarization Research Lab, which will allow researchers to track shifting free speech sentiment in America over time.

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Campus Deplatforming Database

This research documents the ways and reasons that deplatforming attempts, a form of intolerance motivated by more than just mere disagreement, occur on college and university campuses from 1998 to the present.

FIRE Guides to Student Rights on Campus

FIRE’s Guides to Student Rights on Campus emphasize the critical importance of rule of law and fair procedure over partisan and repressive rules.

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Supreme Court Cases

Explore First Amendment court cases, opinions, overview essays and more to learn about the culture and law of free speech in the United States.

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Campus Guides

FIRE Guide for Greek Organizational Advisors

Based on FIRE's 24 years of campus advocacy, this guide is designed to help chapter advisors navigate the labyrinth of campus disciplinary proceedings.

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Campus Guides

FIRE Guide for Greek Life: Know Your Rights

This guide provides fraternity and sorority members with a concise summary of their fundamental free speech, freedom of association, and due process rights.

Leader Moderation Guide

Campus Guides

Let's Talk: Leader Moderation Guide

FIRE has created this Leader Moderation Guide to prepare leaders for their role as moderator and to give them the tools to diffuse tensions in conversation.

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Campus Guides

Guide to Working with Student Government

For many students, interacting with student government leaders can be intimidating. However, if you seek to affect change on campus, working with student governments can be one of the best tools at your disposal.

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Campus Guides

FAQ: Adopting Free Speech Lessons for Orientation & First-Year Experience Programming

FIRE has developed a series of free-to-use modules, videos, and other resources for universities to utilize when teaching incoming students about their free speech rights and the principles behind the First Amendment.

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Campus Guides

Scholars Under Fire Database Guide

Learn more about what a “targeting incident” is, how FIRE catalogs these incidents, and how you can use our database to learn more about this concerning phenomenon.

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Campus Guides

Let's Talk: Start Up Guide

FIRE’s Let’s Talk program provides students with tools to work towards a more intellectually open campus environment.

Campus Guides

FAQ: The First Amendment and Campus Life

Information incoming students need to know about how the First Amendment applies to speech on campus as a reference for students and administrators.

Campus Guides

User's Guide to FIRE's Campus Disinvitation Database

FIRE’s Campus Disinvitation Database catalogues incidents led by students and faculty to “disinvite” speakers with whom they disagree from campus appearances.

Campus Guides

Order FIRE Guides

FIRE’s Guides to Student Rights on Campus emphasize the critical importance of rule of law and fair procedure over partisan and repressive rules.

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Campus Guides

FIRE's Guide to Student Fees, Funding, and Legal Equality on Campus

This FIRE guide explains the significance of student activity fees and their relationship with free expression and campus equality.

Campus Guides

FIRE's Guide to First-Year Orientation and Thought Reform on Campus

Freedom of conscience is the right to arrive at one’s private beliefs, without being coerced into an artificial unity by those who wield power over us.

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Campus Guides

FIRE's Guide to Free Speech on Campus

FIRE has distributed more than 138,000 print and online copies of its Guide to Free Speech on Campus to equip students with the rhetorical and legal tools to stand up for their rights.

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Campus Guides

FIRE's Guide to Religious Liberty on Campus

FIRE’s Guide to Religious Liberty on Campus explains how the legal and moral arguments for religious liberty apply to public and private colleges.

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Campus Guides

FIRE's Guide to Due Process and Campus Justice

This FIRE Guide informs readers about the appropriate (and inappropriate) methods by which university administrators address issues of academic and non-academic misconduct.

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