Today, free-market globalization is undermining the individual rights, civic virtues, and republican sovereignty that conservatives claim to cherish. FIRE cant acknowledge that the more market-driven a university, the more restrictive itlike any business corporationis of individual rights in education. 2012. [1] Kors and Silverglate had co-authored a 1998 book opposing censorship at colleges. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression's mission is to defend and sustain the individual rights of all Americans to free speech and free thoughtthe most essential qualities of liberty. [67][68] FIRE is also representing conservative students at California-based Clovis Community College, where school administrators reportedly removed the students' anti-communism flyers from campus bulletin boards. [64], In 2021, FIRE filed a First Amendment lawsuit on behalf of an Eastern Virginia Medical School student who said his free speech rights were violated when the school denied recognition to a club that he was trying to establish because it supported universal health care. It has an annual budget of more than $48 million and a network of more than 3,000 allied attorneys involved in litigating so-called religious freedom cases and spreading dangerous lies about LGBTQ people. [48], FIRE has argued that public schools are required to uphold First Amendment protections for their students and faculty members because they are government entities. Were seeing some tendency to some of the same imposition of orthodoxy beyond college campuses and some elevation of comfort-seeking relative to truth-seeking much more broadly, Summers said. Politico also wrote that FIRE would spend $10 million on "planned national cable and billboard advertising featuring activists on both ends of the political spectrum extolling the virtues of free speech. 223 transactions on record as a recipient. [9] [10] The same foundations also supportand FIRE has applaudedthe duplicitously named Citizens United ruling that, in the name of expanding free speech, opens election campaigns, and therefore public deliberation about how to regulate corporations, to business-corporate fiduciaries of incorporeal whorls of shareholders, who cannot really deliberate about anything but the size of their dividends. This past year represented a new level of achievement for FIRE and its cause on campus. All of these organizations stoke public anger against political correctness as a threat to academic freedom and to the free-market economy, which they insist would enhance it. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is renaming itself the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and keeping the FIRE acronym as it launches a drive to promote greater acceptance of a diversity of views in the workplace, pop culture and elsewhere. [1] Kors served as FIRE's first president and chairperson. The ACLU later recalibrated its free-speech advocacy, urging that its lawyers considering what cases to take also consider offense to marginalized groups. Romero also said it would not defend those seeking to engage in protests while armed. [34], At the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, FIRE opposed university practices that required student journalists to submit their questions ahead of time or seek permission from the school before interviewing university employees. Its always been the case that some people have believed absolutely crazy things. Lukianoff should be asked to acknowledge this at the Bard conference. [80] Wallace's diploma was initially put on hold for the email, prompting FIRE to contact Stanford in his defense. Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has earned a 96% for the Accountability & Finance beacon. Greg Lukianoff speaking at the 2015 International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington. It has also frequently weighed in on sexual misconduct cases, arguing that the definition of sexual harassment should not include large amounts of constitutionally protected expression, such as any unwanted sexual comments, gestures, jokes, or looks, and defended campus organizations that use hateful rhetoric or seek to exclude potential group members based on sexual orientation. The David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC) is an anti-Muslim hate group founded and run by extremist David Horowitz, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center has called a driving force of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and anti-black movements. DHFC says it combats the efforts of the radical left and its Islamist allies to destroy American values, and that it focuses this endeavor on our nations campuses, where the Freedom Center protects students from indoctrination and intimidation and works to give conservative students a place in the marketplace of ideas from which they are otherwise excluded. DHFC operates several projects, including an online outlet called FrontPage Magazine and DiscoverTheNetworks.com, a so-called Guide to the Political Left which largely claims to show connections between anybody on the left and the terrorists. DHFC has also launched anti-Muslim campus campaigns in recent years, including Stop the Jihad on Campus and Stop the Jew Hatred on Campus, and peppered campuses with offensive posters that sometimes cite individual students or professors by name and call them terrorists. The DHFC utilizes information from a dangerous doxxing website called Canary Mission -- which compiles information about individuals who support the BDS movement, including publishing photos of professors and students and links to social media profiles -- to inform its posters and campaigns. [62][63] The school eventually agreed to rewrite its speech policies, paying $650,000 to settle the lawsuit. As I demonstrate in What the Campus Free Speech Crusade Wont Say, FIREs funding, board members, and closest associations are heavily right-wing. Challenges to free speech are proliferating from both the left and the right, and the nation needs more organizations dedicated to upholding our most fundamental right.. I also argued, in The New York Times, that free speech is alive and well on campus, and that demands for safe spaces, trigger warnings, and speaker cancellations, while real and sometimes chilling, are far less prevalent and dangerous than FIRE insists. On October 20 at a Bard College conference, PEN executive director Suzanne Nossel will have an opportunity to question FIRE President Greg Lukianoff, the crusades most prominent national leader, about that overreaching. Young Americas Foundation is a nonprofit that bills itself as the principal outreach organization of the Conservative Movement by providing essential conferences, seminars, educational materials, internships, and speakers to young people across the country. Its primary projects include preserving Ronald Reagans California ranch, operating the National Journalism Center to train aspiring journalists in the values of balanced reporting (Ann Coulter and Greg Gutfeld are alumni), and running its Center for Entrepreneurship & Free Enterprise. The public list of supposedly biased professors -- which included individuals photos and asked for public submissions of video/photo evidence of alleged bias -- mostly cited right-wing student reporter website Campus Reform, as well as conservative student blog The College Fix, hate group David Horowitz Freedom Center, The Blaze, FoxNews.com, and unfounded videos from Project Veritas. An investigation into these efforts by the Center for Public Integrity noted that the centers research on tax policies, deregulation, social programs, and health care is widely cited by Koch-backed groups like Americans for Prosperity and increasingly used in congressional reports. The organization has received millions in funding from the Charles G. Koch Foundation, the Claude R. Lambe Foundation, and the Stand Together Trust ." The report calls the organization libertarian but, confusingly, notes elsewhere in the text that FIRE is often regarded as libertarian or conservative and is viewed suspiciously by some liberal or progressive students and faculty.. This was a Grant round raised on Oct 18, 2016. [2] Cathy Young, a Cato Institute fellow and columnist for The Bulwark, wrote that "FIRE has handled many cases involving speech suppression in the name of progressive values," while also saying "it is that rare group which actually means it when it claims to be nonpartisan. 03/02/23 7:59 AM EST, Video & Audio This is a welcome development, Romero said in a statement. The Mercatus Center has received more than $9 million from the Charles Koch Foundation, and a combined $9.3 million from dark-money ATM DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund in recent years. Although the details are purposely obscured, its likely that the DeVoses -- like Charles and David Koch -- have additionally contributed to groups in this list through the anonymous donor funds DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund. Jeffrey Tucker, in this collection written between 2015 and 2017, argues that . Josh Gerstein wrote in Politico that "part of the push may challenge the American Civil Liberties Union's primacy as a defender of free speech." Thinking that free speech is the problem here is, I think, missing the point, Lukianoff said. FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION (FIRE) Address: 170 S INDEPENDENCE MALL W. PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106. And the PEN report is justified in saying that while free speech is alive and well on campusa conclusion that echoes my own observationsit is not free from threats and must be vigilantly guarded if its continued strength is to be assured.. According to Brandeis's student press, Hindley was rumored to have used the epithet "wetback". Another ad features a Montana State University student, Stefan Klaer, who was ordered to take down a Black Lives Matter banner from his dorm room window. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education on Monday announced a $75 million expansion into off-campus free-speech advocacy and defense that will include litigation, public education and opinion research. Other groups, including the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, say that standard strips away a student's right to due process. Please, become a member, or make a one-time donation, today. to respond filed. The voices that think of free speech as a dirty word on campus or on Twitter are actually a pretty small minority.. ", "The Worst Campus in America for Free Speech", "Film 'Mighty Ira' brings free-speech issues to screen at Columbus Jewish Film Festival", National Center for Charitable Statistics, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foundation_for_Individual_Rights_and_Expression&oldid=1141690257, This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 08:37. CVCC decided that the comments were "disturbing" and a "threat", and used that reasoning to suspend the student. The American Conservative Union is a conservative political organization that oversees the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a massive annual conference with organizing workshops and speeches from prominent right-wing politicians and leaders. Email: ROBERT@THEFIRE.ORG. OKeefes overhyped videos often fall flat and rarely match their billings. Rankings, in general, are a weak tool for understanding schools' individual characteristics they hide nuance and context, encourage rigid thinking, and by rolling all metrics into one overall number, both reflect and obscure the biases of the list-maker. The F.M. Dunn's Foundation for the Advancement of Right Thinking: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $30,000: 2010 + 64: Earhart Foundation: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $35,000: [83] The ad campaign came in response to Emerson investigating and suspending the campus chapter of Turning Point USA, which distributed stickers featuring a hammer and sickle with the caption "China Kinda Sus" (slang for "suspicious"). He nearly missed getting his diploma", "Just kidding! One TV spot includes a former Emerson College student, K.J. [2][7][8][9] According to The New York Times journalist Cecilia Capuzzi Simon, "There are other groups that fight for First Amendment rights on campus, but none as vocalor pushyas FIRE. The book is an exhaustive recounting of administrators' abuses of freedom of speech and due process, and a warning that the academy was being undermined by speech codes restrictions that colleges. It also operates a campus leadership program that identifies, organizes, and trains conservative college students to promote and defend their values on campus. The institutes national field program boasts more than 1,878 campus groups that advocate for limited government, the free market, traditional values, and national defense.. 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Which funding types raised the most money? As of August 2020, SPN's membership totals 162. The Charles Koch Institute, later formed as a separate organization from the foundation, bills itself as an organization specifically dedicated to educating the next generation of professional leaders with libertarian-minded internships and professional development courses. [19][20][21] Nico Perrino is executive vice president. Much like the ACLU, this often leads to them defending unpopular or controversial speech. Most people of the current generation lack a sense of the historical sweep of the intellectual side of the right-wing collectivist position. Kirby Foundation. This paper presents the annual report of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for 2011. FIRE was renamed in June 2022, with its focus broadened to speech rights in American society in general. The group fearmongers about contraception methods and abortion, a common medical procedure, and equates the work of Planned Parenthood in communities of color with racist eugenics. Glasser, who serves on a FIRE advisory board, said in an interview that he strongly encouraged FIRE to broaden its free-speech work in part because the ACLU seems to be abdicating that role. The video also featured footage of OKeefe, dressed up as the Constitution, attempting to engage with students walking through the campuses and asking female students for their phone numbers. [1], FIRE aims to defend First Amendment rights in academia, and files lawsuits against colleges and universities that it perceives as curtailing rights of students and professors. Ordered By: Year (Newer to Older) Export CSV. " Steven Bahls charges the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education with engaging in "imbalanced sensationalism." Specifically, Bahls argues that for purposes of our speech code ratings, we "lump" colleges with policies banning alcohol-related expression in with colleges that maintain far broader restrictions on speech. [66] Later that year, the organization helped University of Washington professor Stuart Reges take action against the school after it recommended that he include a Native American land acknowledgment on his course syllabus. One thing threatening freedom of expression on campus is the free speech crusade itself. Provost Marty Krauss informed Hindley in October 2007 that comments he made in his Latin American politics class violated the school's anti-harassment policy. This beacon provides an assessment of a charity's financial health (financial efficiency, sustainability, and trustworthiness) and its commitment to governance practices and policies. The PEN report misses this broader context, conscientious though it is in distinguishing real threats to campus free speech from hyped and imagined ones. 02/21/23 11:14 AM EST, Video & Audio DonorsTrust and the affiliated Donors Capital Fund (DCF) are donor-advised funds that have been labeled the dark-money ATM for the conservative movement. DonorsTrust and DCF allow wealthy individuals and philanthropic organizations to donate to right-wing causes (and even hate groups) with anonymity. [105] Freedom also shared his personal story about censorship in his home country of Turkey. Waiver of right of respondent United States to . Dunn's Foundation for the Advancement of Right Thinking. Now a thorough, mostly well-balanced report by the PEN (Poets, Essayists, and Novelists) American Center confirms that the conservative free speech crusade has gone too far. "[4][16][11], FIRE is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with another office in Washington, D.C.[17][18], Greg Lukianoff serves as president and CEO; Robert Shibley previously served as executive director. 21-84. v. Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. Wealthy conservative donors have anonymously poured money into the majority of the groups listed in this report through DonorsTrust and DCF; combined, the two funds have granted millions to the Leadership Institute, the Mercatus Center, the Institute for Humane Studies, Project Veritas, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Students for Liberty, Young Americas Foundation, and Young Americans for Liberty, as well as hate groups Alliance Defending Freedom and the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Through the foundation, Amway founder Richard DeVos Sr. and his spouse, Helen, (parents-in-law of Betsy DeVos, Trumps secretary of education) give millions to right-wing think tanks, model-legislation mills, and political groups, as well as numerous philanthropic endeavors and local right-wing groups in their home state of Michigan. [citation needed], Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, Challenges to college residence life programs, Last edited on 26 February 2023, at 08:37, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Once a Bastion of Free Speech, the A.C.L.U. Those doctrines have themselves become dangerous to democracy via casino-style financing (Donald Trump, anyone? Summers told POLITICO hes troubled that a stifling conformity in discussions about issues related to identity on college campuses seems to be spreading. According to tax filings, the Alliance for School Choice has received substantial funding from right-wing philanthropists, including at least half a million from the Gleason Family Foundation. [71] The criticism led to the resignation of Charlene Allen, Columbia's program coordinator for the Office of Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Education, whose policies were at the center of the controversy. [4], The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education was co-founded by Alan Charles Kors and Harvey Silverglate in 1999, who were FIRE's co-directors until 2004. The unvetted work from Campus Reform also served as the sole evidence for Turning Point USAs recent McCarthyist Professor Watchlist project, which publicly listed photos and details about specific college professors and administrators who discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom. Top contributors to the Leadership Institute in recent years include the anonymous conservative donor funds Donors Capital Fund and DonorsTrust, and the Charles Koch Foundation. [86] FIRE also launched the website "Emerson Kinda Sus" in response. Lukianoff said his group also regularly defends left-leaning students and faculty members when their freedom of expression is threatened. The National Constitution Center is a nonprofit institution devoted to the Constitution of the United States. Kirby Foundation is a private philanthropic foundation operated by the wealthy Kirby family. [58], In 2012, FIRE filed a lawsuit against Iowa State University (ISU) after ISU prevented the university's chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws from designing T-shirts featuring the school's mascot. Other students praised Hindley's pedagogical approach as encouraging "students to face racist narratives head on" and that any disagreement "is a dispute for students and faculty to solve through rational dialogue, not one for the administration to settle in secret inquisitions. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. The Foundation for Economic Education ( FEE) is an American conservative, libertarian economic think tank. Without Yiannopoulos, CPACs speakers list was still full of individuals pushing xenophobic and discriminatory agendas and figures associated with the extremist so-called alt-right movement. In recent years, OKeefe has strongly aligned himself with the so-called alt-right, offering exclusives of his videos to Breitbart.com and befriending dangerous online trolls like Lucian Wintrich, Gavin McInnes, and Milo Yiannopoulos. [61], In 2014, FIRE sued Chicago State University (CSU) for trying to shut down a faculty blog critical of CSU's former administration. [38], In 2014, FIRE assisted the Kalamazoo Peace Center in its lawsuit against Western Michigan University, after the university said the peace center could only invite rapper Boots Riley to speak on campus if it paid a security fee. Project Veritas is the nonprofit group associated with citizen journalist vigilante James OKeefe. [46][45][47] In 2020, FIRE supported new rules made by the Department of Education during the Trump administration about sexual assault and harassment cases that required colleges to allow the cross-examination of accusers. [82], In 2022, FIRE released a series of advertisements in Boston, Massachusetts, accusing Emerson College of censoring free speech on campus. The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation (also operating as the DeVos Urban Leadership Initiative) is a private philanthropic group within the billionaire DeVos familys network of conservative giving. Foundation for Individual Rights in Education uses 20 technology products and services including HTML5 , jQuery , and Google Analytics, according to G2 Stack. Were genuinely nonpartisan in the cases we take, he said. ADF is the primary driver of nationwide bathroom bills targeting protections that allow transgender students to use appropriate public facilities, and state religious freedom laws that seek to enshrine a legal right to discriminate against LGBTQ people. It formed after the 2008 presidential campaign of former libertarian Rep. Ron Paul (TX) as a continuation of Students For Ron Paul. YAL claims to support a network of more than 900 chapters nationwide on college and high school campuses, providing materials and resources to help students organize events to communicate the problems with income redistribution through satire, educate your fellow students about the zombies in government who need to feed on the living to survive (a Halloween-themed activity), and encourage the right to self defense and access to weapons on campuses to prevent a violent crime from ever happening. The list of strategic partners on YALs website is a lengthy encyclopedia of Koch-backed think tanks and advocacy groups, and it also includes the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Students for Liberty, and Young Americas Foundation. Charles Koch is also a board member at the center. But first, some context. It has also been involved in at least two lawsuits alleging campus discrimination against conservatives -- one supported by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and another in which the group was represented by the anti-LGBTQ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom. FIRE has partnered with anti-LGBTQ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom for some of these cases. There are several questions that I hope Nossel and another panelist, Angus Johnston, will ask Lukianoff. Kirks group claims to have a presence on 1,000 college and high school campuses nationally. [7] [8] FEE offers publications, lectures, and student workshops promoting free market principles. Its largest donors appear to be anonymous right-wing billionaires contributing throughDonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund. Student journalists, student media, and their advisors can contact FIRE's Student Press Freedom Initiative Hotline at 717-734-SPFI (7734). The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is an active anti-LGBTQ hate group that bills itself as a Christian legal organization. These rights include freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of consciencethe essential qualities of individual liberty and dignity. Even with the planned expansion by FIRE, the ACLU will continue to dwarf the upstart organization in size and funding. "[2] The Times also referred to FIRE as a "familiar irritant to college administrators" and said FIRE "bristles at the right-wing tag often applied to them". Romero, the ACLU chief, said Monday that he agrees free speech is under increasing attack in the U.S. and is pleased that FIRE is branching out. Do I believe bad actors are abusing this? | Indivisible", "So to Speak podcast: Matt Taibbi, Nadine Strossen, and Amna Khalid respond to 'On the Media' free speech critiques", "Podcast: Discussing Free Speech on "So to Speak", "Samuel Goldwyn Films Acquires Docu, Asks 'Can We Take A Joke? Turning Point USA lists the Leadership Institute, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, National School Choice Week, Heritage Action, the Heartland Institute, and the David Horowitz Freedom Center among its partners.. 03/01/23 9:41 PM EST, Video & Audio History Founded in 1946, The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) is a libertarian economic think-tank dedicated to the "economic, ethical, and legal principles of a free society." FEE publishes books, daily articles and hosts seminars and lectures. Examples of bias on campus from this week include: a professor who reached out to a black student about an upcoming class that would focus on slavery and white nationalism; a school supporting an emergency fund for immigrant students; and a school hosting a seminar on pay inequity and salary negotiation for women students. By Barbara Miner. In the U.S., its operations include a virtual academy and virtual reading groups; conferences; speaker and movie screenings series; and sponsorship of campus groups activism and leadership development. The same foundations also fund a campaign pretending to champion voting rights by passing voter ID laws that would actually disenfranchise voters, including many college students. Weve said it before: The greatest threat to democracy from the media isnt disinformation, its the paywall. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is a right-wing free speech elitist organization. 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