#HigherEd

Declining trust in higher education is mostly a self-inflicted wound, a Yale panel concluded in a report released last week. The…

California lawmakers are considering two bills that would make “anti-hate speech training” a requirement. Assembly Bill 1803 would require employers with…

The Department of Justice announced a civil rights investigation into the University of Washington purportedly because an unrecognized student group —…

Imagine you’re a professor who disagrees with your university’s indigenous land acknowledgement, so you write your own as a joke…

On April 20, FBI Director Kash Patel filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic for its reporting on the director’s…

Texas Tech has two months to shut down its sex and gender courses after the university system passed sweeping new…

FIRE’s Free Speech Dispatch covers new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the world. Our goal is to help readers…

Today, The Intercept reported that the federal government is ordering Reddit to appear before a grand jury in connection with the anonymous…

In June 2024, the philosopher Idris Robinson traveled from Texas to North Carolina to give a talk on Palestinian resistance.…

In 18th century America, news traveled slowly across the Atlantic. Newspapers reprinted secondhand reports, private letters, and unverified stories from…

Ronald Collins, a retired law professor and longtime First Amendment scholar, has joined FIRE’s Advisory Council.Collins most recently taught at…

Sallie James is an economist, former scholar, and director of development at the Cato Institute, longtime FIRE friend and donor…