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.
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- FIRE's 10th Anniversary Celebr...
The Mandarin Oriental Hotel
Thursday, October 22 at 6:00pm - Happy Hour with FIRE, Reason, ...
Smokin' Betty's
Friday, August 28 at 5:00pm
As I already noted, last week, the Campus Freedom Network received a Templeton Freedom Award for Student Outreach in a special ceremony at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation Freedom Conference. Brandon, Greg, and I were in attendance...
Earlier this week, FIRE filed an amicus brief with the Nebraska Supreme Court in an important First Amendment case involving political e-mails sent by a student to his university professor...
The Harvard College Administrative Board—the school's main disciplinary body that applies and enforces "undergraduate academic regulations and standards of social conduct"—has long been the subject of calls for reform. Po...
Last week, FIRE excitedly announced the publication of Correcting Common Mistakes in Campus Speech Policies, a handy reference for university administrators striving to protect the expression of their students from unconstitutional speech codes...
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Foundation for Individual Rights in Education http://www.thefire.org/article/11304.htm
I am excited to announce that a generous donor has offered to give FIRE $25,000 if we can raise $25,000 more from our friends and supporters. This matching grant will enable FIRE to launch a valuable new program: the FIRE Video Fellowship...
FIRE President Greg Lukianoff has had a packed schedule of speeches this fall, having spoken at multiple campuses in Ohio, North Carolina, Texas, and Washington, DC.A video of his "Unlearning Liberty" speech given at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill is available below...
How woeful is the state of free speech on our nation's campuses? Judging from recent headlines, it's woeful indeed. That's because lately, a university's refusal to punish a professor for protected speech has been noteworthy enough to qualify as headline news...
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education The Templeton Freedom Award that FIRE recently won for the CFN's student outreach programs
Last month, Colorado State University graduate student and CFN member Seth Anthony published two excellent columns in The Rocky Mountain Collegian on the problematic policies in place at Colorado State University (CSU). All Torch readers should be sure to check them out. ...
The Young Americans for Liberty at Quinnipiac University will host a lecture by Will Creeley, FIRE's Director of Legal and Public Advocacy, tonight at 6:45 p.m. in the Grand Courtroom...
The widely syndicated radio news show "Family News in Focus" has a brief feature on FIRE's newly published guide Correcting Common Mistakes in Campus Speech Policies, featuring commentary from FIRE's Adam Kissel...
So far, so good at Tarrant County College in Texas, where members of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC) were finally able to hold a long-awaited "empty holster protest" last week following the issuance of a temporary restraining order by a federal judge...
The Hartford Courant reported late last week that Fairfield University, a private, sectarian institution, has levied harassment charges against the student paper The Mirror after publication of a September 30 article entitled "The walk of shame."The piece, an installment in a long-running "He...
