Graham Piro
Graham has worked on ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½â€™s Campus Rights Advocacy team since 2021. He currently focuses on defending faculty academic freedom rights as ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½â€™s Faculty Legal Defense Fund Fellow. Before joining ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½, he worked for three years in media, covering higher education, free speech, and politics. Originally from New York, Graham spends most of his free time running, hiking, or arguing about what the best game in baseball history is (Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS). He always welcomes any movie, book, or D.C. coffee shop recommendations.
Recent Writings
- With help of ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½, University of Washington professor returns to classroom after bread knife incident,
- UC Irvine is crusading over student doormats — and wiping its feet on the Constitution,
- After brazen attack on expressive rights, faculty at Sterling College aren’t in Kansas anymore,
- University of Wisconsin academic freedom panel back on after effort to disinvite speaker,
- Nassau Community College punishes students, but won’t tell them why,
- University of Hawai‘i dean sues law professor who criticized diversity event,
- James Madison psychology professor cleared of wrongdoing after extensive probe into classroom comments,
- Law professor challenges university after campus ‘shooting’ hypothetical changed in lesson plan,
- Cosmetologists can’t shoot a gun? FIRE‘blasts’ tech college for punishing student over target practice video,
- In major hit to tenure, Muhlenberg fires pro-Palestinian professor,
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