Tag: academic freedom

Laura Beltz, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) Chances are you’ve posted or sent something online that someone, somewhere, could consider “annoying.” Although a...

Laura Beltz, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education What’s the most common type of speech code in FIRE’s Spotlight database? The answer might surprise you. It’s...

SARAH MCLAUGHLIN, FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION Earlier this month, FIRE launched its “Commitment to Campus Free Expression at Home and Abroad,” a statement...

LIBERTY COUNSEL The principal at Manchester Elementary School in Nebraska who was on administrative leave for censoring Christmas has resigned. Last night, the Elkhorn Public...

LIBERTY ALERTS, THE FIRE.ORG University repeatedly tried to shut down faculty blog critical of former administration Settlement is the 13th for FIRE’s litigation project,...

BY SELWYN DUKE We don’t know the student’s name, but we do know that he hit a nerve — in fact, he hit a whole...

BY BOB BARR Listening to liberal college administrators waxing poetic from their ivory towers, one might conclude the greatest threat to higher education is not...

BY SELWYN DUKE People like thinking the best of themselves, which is partially why we have “trigger warnings,” “microaggressions” and claims of “taking offense” —...

BY PHYLISS SCHLAFLY It’s no longer just conservatism that’s a problem on college campuses: now we’ve got students objecting to things that just remind them...

BY PHYLISS SCHLAFLY Another conservative event has kicked off a college campus ruckus. The Anscombe Society at the Stanford University medical school is a student...

BY PHYLISS SCHLAFLY Who would have thought, only a few years ago, that our basic First Amendment right of free speech would be under attack...

EDUCATION REPORTER, EAGLE FORUM In his annual State of the Union address, President Barack Obama announced a new federal program called “America’s College Promise.” It...

DAVID FRENCH, ACLJ Earlier this week, I posted about Dr. James Enstrom’s successful settlement of his lawsuit against UCLA. Long a dissenter against environmentalist scare-mongering,...

FIRST AMENDMENT, ACLJ.ORG After two and a half years of litigation, Dr. James E. Enstrom, a former Researcher at the UCLA School of Public Health,...

BY PHYLISS SCHLAFLY One of the biggest reasons why parents want to get rid of Common Core in the schools is that they recognize it...

BY PHYLISS SCHLAFLY At the beginning of this school year, the California State University system announced that InterVarsity Christian Fellowship no longer has official status...

DAVID FRENCH, ACLJ Yesterday, the University of California’s student-worker union (UAW Local 2865)voted on whether to join the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel....

LIBERTY LETTERS WITH STEVE FARRELL Is God the author of liberty, or not? A valid, and need I say, vital question. But in this age of secularism,...

SUSAN KRUTH, THEFIRE.ORG If there is a safe place to share controversial opinions without punishment, it should be a class at a public institution of...

DAVID FRENCH, ACLJ The brazen intellectual bankruptcy of campus censorship never fails to impress. Yesterday, the Chronicle of Higher Education was the latest prestige publication to cover the...

BY PHYLISS SCHLAFLY It’s not merely parents who are raising a ruckus against the new Common Core standards that the Obama Administration is trying to...

BY PHYLISS SCHLAFLY The New York Times published an interesting color picture of moms, both white and African-American, who were demonstrating against the plan to...

BY PHYLISS SCHLAFLY America’s colleges and universities are usually able to evade scrutiny or criticism of their mistakes and bad practices. The benefits of a...

BY PHYLISS SCHLAFLY One college professor who has been outspoken for conservative principles is Mike Adams at the University of North Carolina. His life has...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Condoleeza Rice. Christine Lagarde. Ayaan Hirsi Ali. These are just a few of the prominent individuals invited to deliver the commencement...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Condoleeza Rice. Christine Lagarde. Ayaan Hirsi Ali. These are just a few of the prominent individuals invited to deliver the commencement...

LIBERTY ALERTS, LIBERTY COUNSEL Leesburg, FL - Last night the Lake County, Florida, School Board voted unanimously to enter into a Consent Decree granting the...

CECE HEIL, ACLJ In the latest chapter of a seemingly never ending battle over the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, the Massachusetts...

DAVID FRENCH, ACLJ Among the many virtues of aggressive litigation — in addition, of course, to the fundamental goal of obtaining justice for your clients...

CECE HEIL, ACLJ We recently assisted a mother and her daughter in Tucson, Arizona, who requested our assistance when the daughter was told that she...