Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

As today's press release announces, FIRE will be offering its first-ever Continuing Legal Education (CLE) course on September 14, 2010, in New York City.

Saint Augustine's College has refused to allow a student to participate in its graduation ceremonies due to a comment he posted on Facebook about how the college was handling its recovery from tornado damage.

FIRE released its 2012 list of the 12 Worst Colleges for Free Speech in The Huffington Post today. Harvard is new to the list this year, joining Yale, Syracuse, and the University of Cincinnati at the top of the list.

A scathing report on "The Unfulfilled Promise of Public Higher Education in California" finds that California's public university systems are failing to provide students with a robust education grounded in a free exchange of ideas.

Only thirty percent of them answered that freedom of religion is a right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

FIRE and a broad coalition of organizations and individuals urged the Department of Education to retract a controversial “blueprint” for campus sexual harassment policies that threatens student and faculty rights.

FIRE helped slay a manifestly unconstitutional loyalty oath at at Bucks County Community College in Newtown, Pennsylvania.

Alan Charles Kors (Ph.D., Harvard University) teaches European intellectual history at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History.

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.