In recent years, political speech on our nation’s campuses has come under sharp attack. FIRE has investigated open and blatant attacks on political expression at colleges and universities across the country, from a previously unreported case at Oklahoma, to better-known cases at Illinois and Texas, to cases at other schools nationwide. This alarming trend towards silencing political expression prompted FIRE to release a Policy Statement on Political Activity on Campus.
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The mission of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is to defend and sustain individual rights at America's colleges and universities. These rights include freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience — the essential qualities of individual liberty and dignity. FIRE's core mission is to protect the unprotected and to educate the public and communities of concerned Americans about the threats to these rights on our campuses and about the means to preserve them.
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