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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 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 Supreme Court opinions, overview essays, academic discussions, and other resources to get the full picture of how the United States’ culture of free speech and First Amendment law has developed over the years.

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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Due Process Advocacy

What should you do if your college doesn't allow counsel in campus judicial process? The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has answers.

Student Press Censorship

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Free PRESSED: How Administrative Censorship is Squeezing Student Newsrooms

At least 60 percent of college newspaper editors reported experiencing at least one instance of administrative censorship in the previous year.

Study Abroad Report 2021

Reports

Studying Abroad, Speaking Out: How U.S. Universities Approach Expression in Study Abroad Programs

Each year, hundreds of thousands of students studying abroad must carefully consider the possibility that their destination country could operate under very different rules regarding freedom of expression.

COVID on Campus 2021

Reports

COVID on Campus: The Pandemic’s Impact on Student and Faculty Speech Rights

In this report, FIRE gives readers a clearer picture of what institutions have done wrong, how they can do better, and the broader challenges to education posed by the past year.

Universities and Internet Speech

Reports

Memory-holed: Universities and Internet Speech

FIRE has repeatedly pushed back against efforts to punish college students and faculty for engaging in protected speech online.

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Tracker: University Responses to Chinese Censorship

See FIRE's tracking of colleges' and universities' responses to Hong Kong National Security Law and other Chinese censorship efforts in education.

No comment: Social Media Report 2020

Reports

No Comment: Public Universities' Social Media Use and the First Amendment

FIRE’s survey of 200 public universities asked how these government institutions filter or block content and users on their official Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Under Pressure: The Warning Signs of Student Newspaper Censorship

Reports

Under Pressure: The Warning Signs of Student Newspaper Censorship

In this report, FIRE examines cases of censorship at student newspapers and lists warning signs student journalists should be on the lookout for.

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Reports

Student Attitudes Association Survey

Survey conducted by FIRE and YouGov analyzed college students’ attitudes toward issues relating to expression, student fees and association on campus.

Reports

Do North Carolina Students Have Freedom of Speech?

North Carolina’s colleges and universities lead the way nationally for their written policies protecting student free speech.

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Threats to due process at Yale

Students accused of serious misconduct at Yale University can be suspended or expelled without a fair hearing or adequate due process

Yale Woodward Report

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The more things change, the more they stay the same: The Woodward Report

Despite having one of the most robust commitments to free speech, Yale maintains a number of policies that threaten students’ expressive rights.

Campus free speech survey

Reports

Student Attitudes Free Speech Survey

FIRE surveyed 2,225 American college students about a variety of issues relating to freedom of expression and association on their college campuses.

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Bias Response Team Report 2017

The posture taken by many Bias Response Teams is likely to create profound risks to freedom of expression and academic freedom on campus.