Leaders from the College Republicans and Young Americans for Liberty, a Libertarian group, spearheaded this initiative. Good for them.
Campus Reform reports:
Ky. student leaders petition lawmakers for free speech
Various student leaders representing bip...
This has become so rare that it’s newsworthy when it happens.
Campus Reform reports:
Some schools ban conservative speakers. This one is taking the opposite approach
Schools such as the University of California-Berkeley have tried to shut down controversial speakers in recent years by saddling them or the groups hosting them with exorbitant security...
We need a new pro-free speech movement in America. This is not going to get any better until we do.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Majority of students favor college bans of ‘hurtful or offensive’ speech
Colleges and universities should be able to curtail hurtful and offensive political views on campus, accord...
The U.S. has had a federal anti-Boycott law on the books since the 1970s, to counter the Arab League Boycott of Israel.
There is under consideration in Congress, and many states have passed, laws to modernize the anti-Boycott laws to take into account the new form of the boycott, the so-called Boycott,...
The argument here is that the school spends more time policing speech than protecting it. Sounds like the majority of American schools, sadly.
National Review reports:
Lawsuit Aims to End the Chill...
Is this what you expected the 21st century to be like? Legal battles in academia over pronoun usage?
Campus Reform reports:
Ohio univ: Gender pronoun usage is not free speech
A public university in Ohio is requesting that a federal judge dismiss a lawsuit filed by a professor who was disciplined for calling a...
The case stems from a faculty run blog which was critical of the previous administration. Then FIRE got involved and delivered another victory for free speech.
The FIRE blog reports</...
Congrats to these young people. This just goes to show there are still college students who appreciate freedom.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Young Americans for Liberty scores 50 pro-free speech policy changes on campuses across the country
Young Americans for Liberty, a national student group committed to the ideas of liberty, has hit an...
After a speech given by Dinesh D’Souza, YAF alleges that the school took steps to make it harder to bring conservative speakers to campus.
Townhall reports:
Censoring Conservatives: Young America’s Foundation Sues University of Florida
Young America’s Foundation has issued a lawsuit against the University of Florida for violating students’ constitutionally protected rights.
The lawsuit...
What are these administrators so afraid of? How does it hurt the school to let Shapiro speak?
The Washington Examiner reports:
Twenty Washington state legislators denounce Gonzaga’s refusal to let Ben Shapiro speak
Gonzaga University has drawn the ire of 20 Washington state legislators in the form of a jointly signed letter for the...
It took two years and a lawsuit to get this done, but better late than never.
The Washington Times reports:
College settles free speech lawsuit, will allow students to hand out U.S. Constitutions
Students at Pierce College will be able to pass out copies of the U.S. Constitution without conditions after two years of...
Speech First is an organization like FIRE, in that they combat abuses of free speech rights on college campuses. Now they have set their sights on the University of Texas.
From their website:
Speech First Files Federal Lawsuit Challenging Four University of Texas Policies That Chill Student Speech
Speech First, a nonprofit membership association...
This group apparently believes the free speech crisis on college campuses has been manufactured by conservatives.
The College Fix reports:
New ‘Network of Concerned Academics’ rallies against the ‘right-wing’
A coalition of higher education administrators, faculty, staff...
A survey from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education found that nine out of ten universities in America restrict free speech. From The College Fix:
“FIRE encourages colleges and universities to revise all policies that regulate expression so that they only ban expression that is not protected by the First Amendment,...
When you place these types of restrictions on speech, someone has to be in charge of deciding what qualifies as mean or nasty.
Ashe Schow reports at the Daily Wire:
University Speech Code Bans ‘Mean’ Speech
We’ve moved on from using the term “hate speech” to describe wide swaths of speech we don’t like...
This happened at Bowling Green State. The story below notes that this is basically a violation of free speech.
Campus Reform reports:
University suspends fraternity members over constitutionally protected speech
Bowling Green State University suspended nine students from participating in a fraternity for one year following a Halloween costume incident.
The nine Pi Kappa Alpha...
Not only is the school paying a cash settlement to YAF, the heckler’s veto at Berkeley is basically over. This is big.
From the YAF blog:
YAF Wins Landmark Free Speech Lawsuit, UC Berkeley To Pay $70,000 And Rescind Unconstitutional Policies
Following more than a year of hard-fought litigation in the hostile Ninth Circuit,...
