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Announcing a weekly FIRE video series: FIREside Chats

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Nico Perrino

November 30, 2017

We are excited to announce a new series of weekly video conversations with FIRE staff where we candidly discuss the top student and faculty rights stories of the day.

In our first episode of FIREside Chats, Will Creeley moderates a discussion about the Anthony Scaramucci controversy at Tufts University with Brynne Madway and Adam Steinbaugh. Afterward, they are joined by Marieke Tuthill Beck-Coon for a conversation about student surveillance at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

New episodes of FIREside Chats will be uploaded to our YouTube channel every week.

Don’t miss an episode: subscribe to our YouTube channel today!

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