If freedom of thought is not honored at college campuses, how devoted to this source of all our other freedoms will its graduates be as they become influential in America's future?
The University of Georgia has unequivocally affirmed the free speech rights of its students and apologized for an admin who ruled protected expression was prohibited at this public university.
FIRE is a nonprofit educational foundation devoted to free speech, individual liberty, religious freedom, the rights of conscience, legal equality, due process, and academic freedom on our nation's campuses.
Many colleges and universities have established speech-zone systems relegating protests, demonstrations and all other forms of student speech to a handful of places on campus.
Harvard would do well to re-think all of its disciplinary policies and procedures, which have been notoriously deficient for both complainant and defendant for decades.
We are actually beginning to win the battle for freedom of thought at America's colleges and universities, largely because of a feisty little three-year-old named FIRE.
