Table of Contents
FIREin 'The Huffington Post' on America's 12 Worst Schools for Free Speech
Today, The Huffington Post FIRE's list of America's 12 Worst Schools for Free Speech. An expansion of ÃÛÖÏãÌÒ's Red Alert List of the "worst of the worst" schools for student and faculty rights, this "dirty dozen" slideshow includes the schools that come onto ÃÛÖÏãÌÒ's radar screen again and again for their repeated and egregious violations of fundamental rights, as well as schools whose policies are so bad that they simply had to be included.
For longtime Torch readers, the presence of most of these schools on our list won't come as a surprise. But we don't want to give it all away here. Is your college or alma mater on the list? !
- Free Speech
- Faculty Rights
- Syracuse University
- DePaul University
- Binghamton University, State University of New York
- University of Massachusetts - Amherst
- Yale University
- Bucknell University
- Michigan State University
- Colorado College
- Tufts University
- Brandeis University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Marshall University
Recent Articles
FIRE’s award-winning Newsdesk covers the free speech news you need to stay informed.

Maine’s censure of lawmaker for post about trans student-athlete is an attack on free speech
The Maine House is wrong to censure Rep. Laurel Libby — and its actions are a clear retaliation

Trump’s border czar is wrong about AOC
AOC did nothing wrong by informing the public of their constitutional rights when encountering ICE agents

FIREcalls out 60 Minutes investigation as 'political stunt' in comment to FCC
FIREsubmitted a comment to the Federal Communications Commission about a complaint about a 60 Minutes interview with then Vice President Kamala Harris.

The National Institutes of Health shouldn’t use ÃÛÖÏãÌÒ’s College Free Speech Rankings to allocate research funding — here’s what they should do instead
NIH should give research funding to institutions that promise academic freedom to their faculty and researchers.