From The College Fix: President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, is being declared unfit to serve not for her best-known cause – K-12 reform and school choice – but because the…
Topic: FIRE
Liberals Tried to Disinvite Speakers SEVEN Times More than Conservatives
From The College Fix: FIRE has been chronicling attempts by students and faculty to stop perceived controversial speakers from lecturing on campus since its first disinvitation report came out in 2014. Individual Rights Defense Program…
Sexual Harassment Complaint for Student Writing the Wrong Name on a Quiz at University of Tennessee
This is ridiculous, isn’t it? An update from FIRE: Last week, several news outlets reported that a student at the University of Tennessee (UT) received a zero on a quiz—a grade his professor justified because…
Louisiana University has Restrictive Free Speech Code of Only Speaking You Mind for Two Hours a Week
This sounds outrageous, but it’s apparently true at Northwestern State University in Louisiana: The school earned the uncoveted “Speech Code of the Month” from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which just downgraded Northwestern…
Oklahoma Wesleyan University Challenged Department of Education’s Low Evidence Threshold Policy
This from the College Fix: The evangelical university joined an existing lawsuit coordinated by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) on behalf of a University of Virginia law student, who was banned for life from…
Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights is Overreaching in Regulations, Law Professors say
As Campus Reform reported, “An open letter released Monday by 21 prominent law professors warns that the Department of Education’s sexual harassment directives are undermining both free speech and due process.”
Texas College to Pay Student Group $50,000 for Suppressing Free Speech on Gun Rights
Blinn College is paying a decent sum of money for suppressing a Young Americans for Liberty recruiter on their campus. Blinn College will also pay $50,000 in damages and legal fees to Nicole Sanders, who…
University of Wisconsin-Superior Closes Investigation into Satirical April Fool’s Edition of Campus Newspaper
The Promethean faced an investigation from the university administration over their satirical edition for April Fool’s Day until this week, when the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) said they would back a lawsuit…
Another Win for Free Speech: University of Chicago Dumps Free Speech Code
It becomes to earn a ‘green-light’ free speech rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). Photo by anhgemus Photo by anhgemus
Group to Sue Dept of Ed over Ignoring Due Process
From the College Fix: The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education said Monday it “aims to challenge” the Department of Education’s use of unenforceable guidance to threaten colleges into changing their Title IX procedures around alleged sexual…