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2027 College Free Speech Rankings: Kirk murder adds another difficult topic to dismal climate for student expression

September 9, 2026

Press Release

NYU's crackdown on affinity graduations solves a problem that isn't there

August 11, 2026

Analysis

Fearing controversy, schools cancel graduation speeches

May 21, 2026

Analysis

After more silence from NYU, FIRE files accreditor complaint

September 26, 2024

News

FIRE to NYU: Last chance to fix free speech issues on campus before accreditor complaint

September 10, 2024

News

NYU grad student employee fired, investigated for writing on garbage

February 2, 2023

News

FIRE asks NYU to reinstate chemistry professor whose firing caused furor and to ensure that adjuncts like him have academic freedom

October 27, 2022

News

FIRE to NYU: Uphold your free speech promises and stop investigating anti-Zionist statement

April 29, 2022

News

Academic freedom, freedom of expression under the spotlight in international higher education

September 1, 2021

New York schools continue to flout student rights — and New York courts continue to let them

April 16, 2021

News

10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech: 2021

February 17, 2021

News

FIRE presents the 10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech: 2021

February 17, 2021

Press Release

NYU ignores academic freedom, investigates Mark Crispin Miller’s course content, blog post

November 30, 2020

Scholars at Risk report addresses complex challenges facing higher education in China

October 3, 2019

NYU’s Abu Dhabi campus continues to face questions about academic freedom

May 22, 2019

At city’s request, NYU postpones Milo Yiannopoulos classroom discussion

October 31, 2018

FIRE alerts students to due process threats using campus newspapers

February 23, 2018

On overseas satellite campuses, academic freedom is more often promised than practiced

November 17, 2017

News

Judge Rules New York University Faculty Handbook a Binding Legal Contract

December 20, 2016

‘So to Speak’ Podcast: NYU Professor Stephen Solomon’s ‘Revolutionary Dissent’

November 3, 2016

Climate at NYU Shanghai Offers Surprising Contrast with U.S. Campus

July 15, 2016

New York’s Affirmative Consent Law Affirmatively Confuses Students (VIDEO)

October 28, 2015

NYU Prof at United Arab Emirates Campus Barred from Country After Criticism

March 20, 2015

NYU Dental Student Expelled Without Even a Veneer of Due Process: Part II

December 14, 2012

Rotten! NYU Dental Drills Student: Chiseled, Kicked Out (Part I)

December 12, 2012

N.Y.’s ivory towers vs. free speech

November 11, 2012

Blog

When in Rome, Don’t Censor Yourself

July 11, 2012

NYU Journal of Law and Liberty Examines Issue of Off-Campus Student Speech

February 28, 2012

Speech Codes of the Year: 2009

December 23, 2009

June 2009: New York University

June 4, 2009

Civil Disobedience and Due Process at NYU

February 26, 2009

At NYU, Blogging About Journalism Class Draws Rebuke and Raises Issues of Student Speech, Privacy

September 18, 2008

Cathy Young on SFSU and Censorship Masquerading as ‘Tolerance’

April 10, 2007

Blog

NYU Student Blows the Whistle on Speech Codes

March 6, 2007

News

Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee of Censorship Agree: We Hate FIRE!

December 18, 2006

NYU President John Sexton: Free Speech Hypocrite

December 11, 2006

'Know Before You Go'

September 7, 2006

Blog

Correction to August 28, 2006 FIRE Update

August 30, 2006

Blog

NYU Continues to Defend Wrongdoing in Mohammed Cartoon Controversy

August 29, 2006

News

NYU Denies Any Wrongdoing

August 25, 2006

Silence Speaks Volumes at NYU

May 24, 2006

‘USA Today’ on FIRE and the Mohammed Cartoons

April 19, 2006

FIRE Asks NYU to Repudiate Its Censorship of the Mohammed Cartoons

April 18, 2006

South Park Mirrors Life

April 13, 2006

Victory for Freedom of Speech at the University of Southern California

April 10, 2006

Press Release

Eugene Volokh on NYU and the Cartoon Shame

April 4, 2006

The ‘New York Post’ on NYU’s Shame

April 3, 2006

‘The Image of Hypocrisy’

March 31, 2006

Censors Win at NYU

March 30, 2006

NYU Shamefully Censors Cartoon Panel Discussion

March 29, 2006

NYU’s Shame

March 29, 2006

NYU Surrenders to the Heckler’s Veto in Mohammed Cartoon Dispute

March 29, 2006

Press Release

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