Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

FIRE has argued since September that professor Gary Shank’s in-class, pedagogically-relevant speech is protected under Duquesne’s strong institutional promises of free speech and academic freedom.

Investigations of this nature risk a chilling effect on academic freedom.

Today, Inauguration Day, FIRE sent President Joe Biden an open letter urging him and his administration to protect the freedom of speech and civil liberties of America’s college students and faculty.

After three months, Haskell Indian Nations University's president rescinds unconstitutional directive forbidding student journalist from routine newsgathering. FIRE calls for policy changes to forestall future censorship.

A new report suggests that many University of Wisconsin undergraduates do not understand what constitutes protected speech under the First Amendment.

Martin Luther King Jr: "Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech"

We will often disagree with one another in a free society, sometimes loudly. Disagreement is expected and healthy in a pluralistic democracy like ours. The First Amendment rightly protects the broadest range of opinion, but threats of violence and violence itself cannot and must not be tolerated.

The Atlantic's Kate Julian and FIRE President and CEO Greg Lukianoff discuss rising rates of childhood depression, anxiety, and suicide.