🚨 FIRE’s 2025 College Free Speech Rankings are out! UVA takes the top spot for the best free speech climate while Harvard University remains dead last for the second year in a row rankings.thefire.org

So UVA is #1 in the FIRE Free Speech Rankings!!!! My thoughts…

BREAKING: FIRE and College Pulse have just released the 2025 College Free Speech Rankings. Surveying 58K+ students from 257 institutions, the results find that free speech has been threatened in historic ways since the Israel-Hamas war began. Expand to learn more ⬇️ 🟡 UVA

We're Number 251! For the 2nd year in a row, Harvard comes in at last place with a perfect score of 0 in FIRE's College Free Speech Rankings | Our work at the Council for Academic Freedom at Harvard Carlos Henriques is cut out for us thefire.org/research-learn…

Harvard, Columbia rank worst for student free speech in new analysis trib.al/M3WV99l

FIRE's new survey of 59k college students is out. Unfortunately, a significant percentage of them have disastrously illiberal ideas about free speech. - 32% said that using violence to stop a campus speech is acceptable to some degree — up from 27% last year and 20% two years

Fellow 'Cuse alum and proud Newhouse School masters grad, where we took classes in a building literally wrapped in the text of the First Amendment and learned the importance of free press and speech. Speaking out at Syracuse University can't just be confined to journalism students.

Well, this is cool, X. See what all the chatter is about, folks. Discover why Harvard University has been ranked the worst school for free speech for the *second year in a row* in FIRE's 2025 College Free Speech Rankings ➡️ thefire.org/research-learn…

The Anxious Generation is #1 again on the NYT nonfiction hardcover and audiobook lists. That's 23 weeks in a row in the top 4. Parents and teachers are reading it in groups and taking collective action. For guidance on actions to take, see anxiousgeneration.com/take-action

Proud former Arizona Wildcat as University of Arizona rounds out FIRE's College Free Speech Rankings' Top 25! 🗨️🔥📢Low student self-censorship rates, admin's speech-protective policies & practices, and speaker tolerance helped earn an above average ranking. #BearDown rankings.thefire.org/rank

Spartanburg, SC police pull drivers over "for minor things like following too closely ... and when they find cash, they seize it — whether there's evidence of wrongdoing or not.” THEN they spent almost a year refusing requests for public records, "turns out, they hadn't kept any

🎯 from The Washington Post. Elon Musk's inconsistency in resisting repressive governments' censorship demands absolutely should be called out. But anyone citing that to downplay this Brazilian Supreme Court justice's authoritarian actions doesn't really care about free speech.

We're three weeks out from our second annual conference, and a terrific program is shaping up! More information on the conference and other confirmed speakers and panelists is available on our website, and if you're interested in coming, let us know! mitfreespeech.org/mfsa_2024_conf…

Bad news:

📊 FIRE's 2025 College Free Speech Rankings surveyed over 58,000 students across 257 colleges. 1 🔑 takeaway: A record 55% of students said the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is difficult to discuss openly on campus (Yes, I’m sure you’re shocked!) rankings.thefire.org/?nocontact=true

This summer, after the headline-making campus protests surrounding the Israel-Hamas war, dozens of schools overhauled their free speech policies with mixed results. We've been tracking this trend and have spotted 🚩 that students should watch out for. thefire.org/news/protestin…

There is no place for violence in our colleges and universities. Full stop. Sadly, FIRE's 2025 College Free Speech Rankings found that 32% of students said that using violence to stop campus speech is acceptable to some degree. 🎙️: Greg Lukianoff 📺: Rising