FIRE calls on Harvard Kennedy School to approve fellowship of Ken Roth, the former head of Human Rights Watch, after it was rescinded purportedly over Roth’s “anti-Israel bias.”
FIRE called on Hamline University to reinstate an art history instructor dismissed for showing the class medieval artwork depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
FIRE told Indiana University School of Medicine that its honor code appeared to compel faculty speech in violation of their expressive rights and asked the university to clarify that signing the pledge was not mandatory.
Student journalists at American University must receive official written permission to interview university sources, and certain student employees are prohibited from speaking to the press altogether.
FIRE wrote Loyola urging it to drop its investigations and sanctions against a professor for comments that are pedagogically relevant and protected by the university’s academic freedom commitments.