Yesterday, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education upgraded Delta State University to a “green light” free speech rating. It is the 50th university to hold a “green light” rating at this time – an all-time high which displays the recent progress of the campus free speech movement.

FIRE began its speech code rating system in 2006. FIRE grades the speech codes of every major university in the US on a three-tier scale, assigning each school a “green light,” “yellow light,” or “red light” rating. According the FIRE’s website, a school receives a “green light” rating “[i]f a college or university’s policies do not seriously imperil speech.”