Videos

Featuring Larry Gatlin and Jonathan Rauch!Religious and political groups in the United States have traditionally been free to choose their leaders and members without interference from authorities. That's no longer true at Vanderbilt University, where the school banned belief-based groups from making belief-based decisions about their members and leaders and drove 13 religious student groups off of campus. In this video, FIRE talks to Vanderbilt students and faculty about how this decision is affecting them. Country music legend Larry Gatlin and author and scholar Jonathan Rauch also explain why Vanderbilt has done both its students and the idea of pluralism itself a profound disservice.    
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FIRE's Essay Contest will award $20,000 in scholarships to high school juniors and seniors this fall! Visit http://www.thefire.org/contest to enter. Deadline Nov. 25, 2012.Did you know that some colleges and universities restrict student speech rights? Don't be surprised by campus censorship when you get to college - know before you go!Visit http://www.thefire.org to learn more. For more information on the cases and codes included in the video, visit http://thefire.org/article/14730.html.    
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First published in 2005, FIRE's Guide to Free Speech on Campus has been distributed to more than 138,000 students, faculty members, alumni, administrators, and citizens across the country as a tool to fight censorship on campus. The new second edition of the Guide has been fully updated for today's students, paying special attention to student expression in the Facebook era and providing readers with fresh examples from FIRE's case archives, important updates from state and federal case law, and incisive analysis.
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FIRE has named America's Top 12 worst colleges for free speech in the Huffington Post. Is your college one of them? Watch and find out, and visit http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-lukianoff/the-12-worst-schools-for-_b_1382... to learn more!    
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Since our founding in 1999, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has fought to defend the First Amendment on campus and protect students and faculty members whose freedom of expression is in jeopardy. The following video reviews five of the worst cases in our history, and provides a glimpse at the various threats to freedom on campus and the means that FIRE uses to combat them. A special thanks to Mr. Lawrence Post for making this video possible. For more information on these cases or on FIRE's work, visit thefire.org.
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In a new video from the 2010 CFN Conference, Chris Lee discusses how Washington State University (WSU) administrators subsidized a group of protesters to disrupt his satirical play, 'Passion of the Musical.'
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