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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The Campus Freedom Network, FIRE's grassroots organization of college students and faculty dedicated to defending free speech on campus, has seen tremendous growth this past year as more and more students and faculty have learned about the CFN and the benefits it offers...
Here at FIRE we are holding the University of Minnesota to its promise that it will never "mandate any particular beliefs, or screen out people with ‘wrong beliefs' from the University." We are watching carefully because if some of the university's professors had their way, this ideological s...
The Campus Freedom Network takes FIRE's mission to educate students about their rights directly to campus through our speakers program. Students can bring FIRE speakers to campus to speak to their fellow students about threats to liberty on campus and how they can defend their rights...
In my past two posts, I have counted down to FIRE's number one video of 2009. Now, of course, this ranking is really just my opinion, but I think the video I have chosen as number one for 2009 deserves that distinction for a whole host of reasons...
As FIRE's Director of Legal and Public Advocacy, perhaps the most exciting thing to me about the New Year is the fact that in 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States has the opportunity to protect the First Amendment freedom of association rights enjoyed by student groups at public colleges...
As we point out in today's press release, America's college and university campuses still rank among the worst places in America for free speech and other First Amendment rights in 2009...
In my last post, I ranked our exclusive interview with humorist Dave Barry as FIRE's number three video of 2009. My number two choice will come as no surprise, as it has by far received the most views of any video on FIRE's YouTube channel. Th...
Liberty cannot exist in a society where people are forced to conform their thoughts and expression to official viewpoints...
In the past year, FIRE celebrated a number of public victories in our continued fight to defend individual liberties on college campuses...
If there is one thing that I think is absolutely crucial if FIRE is to get its message out, it is the production of high-quality online video...
One of FIRE's hallmark programs is FIRE's Guides to Student Rights on Campus, a series of publications that articulate the principles at the heart of FIRE's mission...
As 2009 winds down, FIRE is quickly approaching our goal of raising $25,000 to hire a one-year Video Fellow. Just over one month ago, the generosity and confidence of FIRE donors Raymie Stata and Kimberly Sweidy enabled FIRE to set up a matching gift fund in support of the fellowship...
It's no surprise that of the dozens of free speech incidents FIRE encounters at universities throughout the year, many are connected to the issues grabbing headlines at the time...
Boston Globe journalist Tracy Jan drew attention yesterday to FIRE's latest case at Yale University. No, not the one where images of Mohammed were censored from a book about those very images...
Today's issue of the New York Post features an op-ed by FIRE's Adam Kissel, in which he discusses the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities' plan to impose a political litmus test on future teachers enrolled in its College of Education and Human Development. ...
