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Research & Learn

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

Learn with FIRE

Learn with FIRE provides learners with the opportunity to take courses on a wide range of topics, including free speech and due process, designed by our expert staff.

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2022-2023 College Free Speech Rankings

The 2022 College Free Speech Rankings are based on the voices of 45,000 currently enrolled students at over 200 colleges.

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Supreme Court Cases

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

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.

Scholars Under Fire

Scholars Under Fire: 2021 Year in Review

Over the past seven years, 537 incidents targeting a scholar for some form of professional sanction over constitutionally protected speech have occurred in higher education, and almost two-thirds of these targeting incidents have resulted in a sanction.

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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.

Scholars Under Fire

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.

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Campus Guides

FIRE’s FAQ for Student Protests on Campus

Planning a campus protest—or already part of one? Here are some answers to questions we’ve seen come up defending students’ right to free speech.

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.

Campus Guides

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

Before one can have the freedom to express ideas in open debate, however, one must have freedom of conscience: 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 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 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 Due Process and Campus Justice

Guide to legal and moral arguments in support of due process protections that explains their application on private and public campuses.

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