FIRE - Defending individual rights in higher education
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The mission of FIRE is to defend and sustain individual rights at America’s colleges and universities. These rights include freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience—the essential qualities of individual liberty and dignity.
FIRE - Defending individual rights in higher education
6d ago
FIRE urges Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs to veto House Bill 2586, which contains an online age verification requirement that would violate the First Amendment rights of Arizonans ..read more
FIRE - Defending individual rights in higher education
2w ago
FIRE opposes H.R. 7521, which would grant the president a dangerous degree of power over speech platforms used by Americans ..read more
FIRE - Defending individual rights in higher education
3w ago
State-mandated campus censorship violates the First Amendment and will not effectively answer anti-Semitism ..read more
FIRE - Defending individual rights in higher education
1M ago
Virginia Commonwealth University earns top rating for free speech ..read more
FIRE - Defending individual rights in higher education
1M ago
West Texas A&M President Wendler enforced his unconstitutional prior restraint by canceling a student-organized charity drag show for the second time ..read more
FIRE - Defending individual rights in higher education
1M ago
FIRE is asking the Supreme Court to step in and put an end to the censorship of a drag show at West Texas A&M University ..read more
FIRE - Defending individual rights in higher education
1M ago
Johnson Varkey was teaching college-approved material from a college-approved textbook, according to the professor’s attorneys ..read more
FIRE - Defending individual rights in higher education
1M ago
Only 1 in 4 Americans (25%) think the right to free speech today is either “very” or “completely” secure ..read more
FIRE - Defending individual rights in higher education
2M ago
Three free speech organizations have joined together to urge trustees and regents to advocate for institutional neutrality at their universities ..read more
FIRE - Defending individual rights in higher education
2M ago
FIRE’s 2024 Spotlight on Speech Codes report rates 489 of America’s top colleges and universities on the degree to which their policies restrict student speech ..read more