With the new “green light” rating, the University of Southern California’s retabulated ranking would be 37th nationally in FIRE’s College Free Speech Rankings, 179 places higher than its ranking a year ago.
Michigan State’s trustee gag rule silences dissent, starving student journalists — and the public — of the transparency they need to hold leaders accountable.
The university cited a vague and overbroad definition of antisemitism, as defined by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, which is now official school policy.
HHS’s Title VI findings against Harvard collapse speech and conduct into one bucket, creating a de facto national campus speech code that threatens to turn political dissent into a punishable civil rights violation.
Rebecca Bryant Novak spoke out about harassment. Eastman punished her for it. Now FIRE is demanding the University of Rochester reverse her expulsion and uphold its promises.
