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FIRE monitors colleges and universities that maintain policies that sharply limit students’ speech rights abroad and raise questions about how academic institutions should handle conflicts between American expressive rights and repressive policies in other countries.
For instance, the University of Chicago claimed the top spot in the rankings twice (2020 and 2023) and earned a ranking of 2 in 2021 and a ranking of 13 this year. Kansas State University twice earned a ranking of 2 (2020 and 2023), earned a ranking of 14 in 2021, and earned a ranking of 18 this year.
Since its founding more than two decades ago as the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, FIRE has become the nation’s leading defender of fundamental rights on college campuses through our unique mix of programming, including student and faculty outreach, public education campaigns, individual case advocacy, and policy reform efforts.
FIRE defends and promotes the value of free speech for all Americans in our courtrooms, on our campuses, and in our culture. FIRE’s mission is to defend and sustain the individual rights of all Americans to free speech and free thought—the most essential qualities of liberty.
Oct 2, 2024 · The most pernicious misunderstanding in First Amendment law raised its ugly head again in last night’s vice-presidential debate between Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. In a discussion about the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Walz told Vance: “You can’t yell fire in a crowded theater.
FIRE is a mission-driven organization of hardworking, dedicated team members committed to defending and sustaining the individual rights of all Americans to free speech and free thought.
As with successful deplatformings, a number of these schools — Columbia, Harvard, NYU, IU, and Penn — also landed in the bottom 10 of the rankings with a “Poor,” “Very Poor” or “Abysmal” speech climate. We recorded 12 instances of schools supporting free expression in response to a scholar sanction attempt.
Since our founding in 1999, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has been pleased to field questions from students, faculty, alumni, administrators, reporters, supporters, and free speech advocates across the country.
Learn with FIRE provides learners with the opportunity to take courses on a wide range of topics, including free speech and due process, designed by our expert staff.
FIRE’s mission is to defend and sustain the individual rights of all Americans to free speech and free thought — the most essential qualities of liberty. FIRE educates Americans about the importance of these inalienable rights, promotes a culture of respect for these rights, and provides the means to preserve them.
