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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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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

Reports

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.

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Speech codes at Yale

Despite having a robust commitment to free speech for a private university, Yale maintains a number of policies that threaten expressive rights.

LIVE EVENT: Viewpoint diversity on campus

Podcasts

LIVE EVENT: Viewpoint diversity on campus

Is the modern college campus suffering from a dec...

Survey data

Reports

FAQ: Student Attitudes Free Speech Survey

By publishing this survey, FIRE hopes to contribute to a national conversation about free speech and expression at American colleges and universities.

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.

'Is this the day the Internet dies?'

Podcasts

'Is this the day the Internet dies?'

The experts are calling it the free speech debate...

The British free speech invasion

Podcasts

The British free speech invasion

The British free speech invasion is here. Our fri...

"The neurodiversity case for free speech" w/ Geoffrey Miller

Podcasts

"The neurodiversity case for free speech" w/ Geoffrey Miller

Would Isaac Newton succeed on the modern college ...

Judge Richard Posner on the First Amendment

Podcasts

Judge Richard Posner on the First Amendment

Last week, Judge Richard Posner suddenly retired ...

Reports

Spotlight on Due Process 2017

For the first time, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has rated the top 53 universities in the country based on 10 fundamental elements of due process. The findings are dire.

"After Charlottesville" w/ former ACLU President Nadine Strossen

Podcasts

"After Charlottesville" w/ former ACLU President Nadine Strossen

Nadine Strossen knows the dangers of Nazism. Her ...

Fredrik deBoer on the growing distrust of higher ed

Podcasts

Fredrik deBoer on the growing distrust of higher ed

Fredrik deBoer has been in and around academia hi...

The life of Louis Brandeis w/ Jeffrey Rosen

Podcasts

The life of Louis Brandeis w/ Jeffrey Rosen

During the summer of 1919, U.S. Supreme Court Jus...

Toolkits

Campus Due Process Toolkit for College Students

The right to due process means that fair procedures must be followed before someone accused of wrongdoing is found responsible and punished.

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