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Research & Learn

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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Reports

Students Under Fire: 2020-2024

Speech restrictions are like poison gas: they seem like a good idea when you’ve got the gas and a deserving target in sight, but then the wind shifts and blows the gas back on you.

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Reports

Campus Pulse Check: Reviewing One Decade of University Priorities

As trust in America’s colleges and universities has declined, FIRE compiled the following report to observe key metrics of some campuses where trust has fallen the most.

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Reports

National Speech Index - April 2025

The National Speech Index is a quarterly poll designed to capture Americans’ views on freedom of speech and the First Amendment.

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Reports

National Speech Index - January 2025

The January 2025 National Speech Index sampled 1,000 Americans and was conducted from Jan. 3-9 as a part of the Polarization Research Lab’s weekly America’s Political Pulse survey.

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Reports

Silence in the Classroom: The 2024 FIRE Faculty Survey Report

New FIRE survey finds faculty members are four times more likely to self-censor than at the height of the Cold War and McCarthyism.

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Reports

National Speech Index - October 2024

Two-thirds of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction when it comes to whether people are able to freely express their views.

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Reports

2023-2024 Annual Report

While celebrating our 25th anniversary, FIRE transformed this year's many challenges into opportunities to show what a principled defense of free speech looks like.

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Reports

2024 Student Encampment Protests

How did the student encampment protests impact the state of free expression on America’s college campuses?

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Reports

National Speech Index - July 2024

Two-thirds of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction when it comes to whether people are able to freely express their views.

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Reports

FIRE College Pulse Topline Results - Student Policy Awareness

This survey was conducted between May 17, 2024 and June 25, 2024, and sampled 3,803 undergraduate students at 30 four-year colleges and universities.

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Reports

FIRE-NORC May 2024 Encampments Survey, Topline Results

New FIRE poll finds Americans strongly disagree with some of the forms of protest on display on college campuses this spring.

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Reports

2024 Mid-Year Impact Report

The first half of 2024 was a wild ride for free speech. This report covers the highlights of what’s been a pivotal moment for FIRE on the national stage.

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Reports

FIRE Report on Social Media 2024

With as many as 5.17 billion accounts worldwide, social media is the most powerful tool in history for average citizens to express themselves.

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Reports

FIRE-Ipsos Social Media Moderation Poll Topline Results

Majority of Americans don’t trust social media platforms or the government to make fair content moderation decisions.

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Reports

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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