Colorado lawmakers passed a bill, which was later signed into law by the governor, to remove ‘free speech zones’ from the state’s college campuses.
Topic: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
Flagler College Retroactively Approved Free Speech Event after the Event was supposed to be held
Flagler College approved a student’s ‘free speech ball’ days after the event was supposed to take place.
LA Times Editorial Board: Dear Colleges, Stop Squeezing Free Speech
If the editorial board of the liberal Los Angeles Times has to say, “don’t squeeze free speech on college campuses,” then maybe the college campuses are doing things wrong since both are usually aligned as hotbeds of liberal ideology.
Student Sues Community College for Stopping Him from Passing out Spanish Language Constitutions
Per The College Fix, a college student is suing the Los Angeles-area Pierce College for preventing him from passing out Spanish-language copies of the U.S. Constitution a week before the general election: Los Angeles Pierce…
Conservative Students Stopped from Protesting ‘Social Justice Week’
Free speech is subjective at Regis University? The university is alleged to have shut down the freedom of speech of conservative students, who protested the university’s ‘Social Justice Week,’ per Campus Reform: Alexander Beck, president…
Report: 38% of American Colleges have Bias Response Teams that Focus on Speech
Per the Foundation of Individual Rights in Education (known as FIRE), bias response teams are oppressing free speech across college campuses in America. From their report description: Throughout 2016, FIRE surveyed bias reporting systems at…

Democrats Unhappy with Trump’s Education Pick on Views on Due Process
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…

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…