Time to get FIREd up to save collegiate free speech

Published December 5, 2019 10:10pm ET



If you think the status of free expression on college campuses is bad, you are wrong. It’s not just bad, it’s absolutely atrocious.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, released a report this week that 6.4 million college students, meaning students at 89% of all college campuses, face “policies that restrict — or could too easily be applied to restrict — student expression.” One-fourth of all colleges have what FIRE calls a “red light” situation, meaning the colleges enforce speech codes that “clearly and substantially restrict freedom of speech.”

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