Because private colleges have such broad freedom to determine their own policies, and because state laws vary so widely, it is safest to speak of having only 鈥減otential鈥 rights on a private campus.
The Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science suspended professor Michael J. Joyner for failing to adhere to the college鈥檚 鈥減rescribed messaging鈥 when speaking to media in his personal capacity.
Faculty members are often shocked to learn that many of the same rules that apply to employees of the postal service also apply to professors at public universities.
The best protection from restrictions on faculty classroom speech may come not from the First Amendment, but from the school鈥檚 individual academic freedom policy.
University of Washington banned professor Aurel Bulgac from campus, framing its decision as a 鈥渇orm of protection鈥 but failed to provide a clear timeline or indication of when he could return to in-person teaching.
As trust in America鈥檚 colleges and universities has declined, FIREcompiled the following report to observe key metrics of some campuses where trust has fallen the most.
Since the October 7, 2023 Hamas terror attacks against Israel, and the subsequent war in Gaza, FIREhas written dozens of articles and commentary explaining what forms of expression are (and are not) protected by the First Amendment.
