The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is an active anti-LGBTQ hate group that bills itself as a Christian legal organization. Here's why FIRE finds this policy irresponsible, offensive, and annoying: thefire.org. The Foundation for Economic Education ( FEE) is an American conservative, libertarian economic think tank. Kirby Foundation. Its also hard to accept at face value Lukianoffs claim that FIRE takes on so many liberals only because most professors and students are liberals, and are therefore behind most campus constraints on free speech. 03/01/23 8:20 PM EST, Video & Audio Lets hope that Bard conference-goers will have read the PEN report, the Times account of it, and my own analysis of What the Campus Free Speech Crusade Wont Say.. Reports indicate that the Charles Koch Foundation is one of several Koch funding groups donating to universities and think tanks to forward their political goals and to build a talent pipeline of libertarian-minded students. The foundation supports free-market teachings at the university level, including by funding individual faculty positions. I think for FIRE to spread its wings is very constructive, said Summers, who served as president of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006 and was National Economic Adviser for from 2009 to 2011 under President Barack Obama. [35], FIRE has opposed security fees some campuses charge to groups which host controversial speakers. [40], FIRE also targets situations where students and faculty are adjudicated outside the bounds of due process afforded to them by Constitutional law or stated university policy. 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. Turning Point USA is also closely affiliated with the dangerous citizen journalist vigilante work of James OKeefe and Project Veritas, and the group recently delved into its own warped citizen journalism project with the launch of a McCarthyist Professor Watchlist project in late 2016. Thinking that free speech is the problem here is, I think, missing the point, Lukianoff said. Here is what the Sourcewatch project of the Center for Media and Democracy has to say: "Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has deep ties to the Koch brothers. 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. Labor unions, too, can now fund election campaigns, but once again, thats little more than protective coloration for a ruling that lets wealthy corporations buy expensive megaphones to elect legislators wholl impoverish and break more unions under so-called right-to-work laws. [80] Wallace's diploma was initially put on hold for the email, prompting FIRE to contact Stanford in his defense. "[10], FIRE has received major funding from groups which primarily support conservative and libertarian causes, including the Bradley Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, and the Charles Koch Institute. The State Policy Network (SPN) is a web of right-wing "think tanks" and tax-exempt organizations in 50 states, Washington, D.C., Canada, and the United Kingdom. An upcoming conference at Bard College could shed important light on the right-wing funders behind a deceptive campaign to protect free speech while advancing conservative ideology on liberal campuses. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is a legal and advocacy organization that claims to defend and sustain individual rights at Americas colleges and universities. FIRE primarily handles case submissions from students who believe their free speech rights were violated, connecting some to attorneys, including through its national program designed to file targeted, high-profile cases against public universities. [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. 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." Dunn's Foundation for the Advancement of Right Thinking. Its leader, Kristan Hawkins, has also praised Tony Perkins of Family Research Council, another anti-LGBTQ hate group. [97][98][99], In 2017, FIRE was listed as one of the sponsors of the conservative campus group Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit, according to tax records. But its awfully hard not to connect the dots between FIRE and the conservative funders and organizations engaged in a broad assault on any and all Americans who challenge their free-market doctrines. The Mercatus Center is a conservative research center based at George Mason University thatfocuses on how markets solve problems. The center is also an associate member of the State Policy Network of conservative think tanks. 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. to respond filed. [62][63] The school eventually agreed to rewrite its speech policies, paying $650,000 to settle the lawsuit. But the ebb and flow of ideas cant be reduced to market exchanges, and has to transcend them. ), predatory lending, and ever more intrusive, degrading consumer marketing. [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. FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION (FIRE) Address: 170 S INDEPENDENCE MALL W. PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106. [15], In June 2022, FIRE announced it was expanding its efforts beyond college campuses, to American society in general. [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. Funding Rounds Number of Funding Rounds 1 Total Funding Amount $2.5M Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has raised a total of $2.5M in funding over 1 round. Lukianoff said his group also regularly defends left-leaning students and faculty members when their freedom of expression is threatened. Part of the push may challenge the American Civil Liberties Unions primacy as a defender of free speech. " 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. 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Such offenses often prompt not intimidation and silence but more speech, including criticism from liberals. Kirks group claims to have a presence on 1,000 college and high school campuses nationally. | 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? 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. [76][77][78] Lukianoff recorded a video of students confronting Christakis's husband, who served as master of Silliman College, on the Yale campus. [4] [5] [6] Founded in 1946 in New York City, FEE is now headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Never mind that, as FIRE keeps discoveringbut never invites us to ponderthe college trustees and deans whom it condemns rightly enough for restricting speech are serving not politically correct pieties, but market pressures to satisfy student customers and avoid negative publicity, liability, and losses in brand or market share.. [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. [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. Its first executive director and, later, CEO, was Thor Halvorssen. 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. Not only did FIRE secure more victories than ever, but it also succeeded in bringing liberty to thousands more students by welcoming Arizona State University and James Madison University to its list of [57] Charges were dropped in December 2011. Feb 25. Some of the college-focused sessions at this years conference included: Understanding Your Rights on Campus, led by LGBTQ hate group Alliance Defending Freedoms Casey Mattox; #LiberalPrivilege: Using Social Media to Change College Campuses, led by Campus Reforms Cabot Phillips; How to Bring Conservative Speakers to Your Campus, led by Patrick Coyle from Young Americas Foundation; Facts, Not Feelings: Snowflakes, Safe Spaces and Trigger Warnings, featuring representatives from The Leadership Institute; and a session on winning campus elections led by conservative organizers at American Majority. George Mason has been called the center of the Koch college universe and is by far the largest beneficiary of the Kochs recent philanthropic focus on higher education. Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has earned a 96% for the Accountability & Finance beacon. Lawmakers in at least 42 states have attempted (and in some cases succeeded) to pass legislation that would require teachers to lie to students about the role of racism, sexism, heterosexism, and oppression throughout U.S. history. Demonstrators hold signs as they stage a protest on the steps of Sproul Hall on the UC Berkeley campus on March 08, 2022 in Berkeley, California. The foundation supports free-market teachings at the university level, including by funding individual faculty positions. 03/01/23 10:55 PM EST, Video & Audio Known as Higher Educations Internet Outrage Machine, Campus Reform posts several poorly sourced articles each day alleging professorial bias against conservative students or policies. FIRE took the side of the student. Educated hope provides the basis for dignifying the labor of teachers; it offers up critical knowledge linked to democratic social change, affirms shared responsibilities, and encourages teachers and students to recognize ambivalence and uncertainty as fundamental dimensions of learning. University president Ronald Zaccari misconstrued a caption of the proposed garages as the "Ronald Zaccari Memorial Parking Garage" as a threat to himself. It was renamed Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, keeping the acronym FIRE. 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. Chapters of SFLA have partnered with the anti-LGBTQ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom on creating draft legislation for newly elected Republican legislatures in 2010. Earlier this month, ADF launched a March Madness-like Bracket of Shame ranking colleges and universities based on their so-called free speech records. The project uses articles from our friends at FIRE, Campus Reform, College Fix, and others to inform the bracket. Much like the ACLU, this often leads to them defending unpopular or controversial speech. Lukianoff should be asked to acknowledge this at the Bard conference. 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. [31] The organization has provided legal support to students contesting free speech zones, while also supporting legislation to eliminate such zones. "[25][26] Ira Glasser, former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), serves on FIRE's Advisory Council. (Response due August 20, 2021) Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, et al. Please, become a member, or make a one-time donation, today. Its tax forms list single grants ranging from $301 to more than $11 million awarded to a wide range of institutions of higher education as well as major conservative-leaning think tanks and news outlets. Charles Koch is also a board member at the center. A major focus of CPAC panels and training sessions has always been on recruiting a new generation of right-wing leaders, particularly on college campuses. 02/22/23 12:31 PM EST, Video & Audio When you support The American Prospect, youre supporting fellow readers who arent able to give, and countering the class system for information. Tel: 215-717-3473; Fax: 215-717-3440; e-mail: fire@thefire.org; Web site: http://www.thefire.org Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive Education Level: High Schools; Higher Education Audience: N/A Language: English Sponsor: N/A [90] That month, FIRE challenged the New York State Senates practice of blocking critics on Twitter, representing a resident who had criticized gun control legislation. 03/01/23 9:41 PM EST, Video & Audio Turning Point USA is the project of Charlie Kirk, a 23-year-old conservative boy wonder who spoke at the 2016 Republican National Convention, describing work to push free markets and free people on college campuses, the most treacherous terrain imaginable. He reportedly visited Trump Tower in November to give advice on young people and millennials and outreach to undisclosed members of the presidential transition team. 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. Its great to have the ACLU fighting for racial and reproductive justice and gay rights. While FIRE has received praise from many free-speech advocates, some critics have said the group is a thinly veiled front for conservatives looking to promote their political agenda. Its always been the case that some people have believed absolutely crazy things. After FIRE publicly criticized the decision, Garneau was reinstated. [22][23] Lukianoff and Perrino have written in support of "the right to speak even the thoughts we hate. more about "Foundation for Individual Rights in Education" RDF feed Page status Help:Seed Guide + Page type Article + Thing type Organization + Last month, I disclosed the conservative-movement funding, premises, strategy, and practices of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), which purports to protect free speech on college campuses, but expends more energy blamingand chillingpolitically correct activists and administrators. 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. Not surprisingly, FIRE is trying to put the best face it can on the PEN report, which stops short of blaming the conservative group for wielding the cudgel, and even credits the organization with calling attention to threats against free speech. Jim Sleeper is a lecturer in political science at Yale, a former columnist for Newsday and the New York Daily News, and author of The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York.. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, is an American organization that defends individual rights, especially the right to free speech, in higher education. The F.M. Student journalists, student media, and their advisors can contact FIRE's Student Press Freedom Initiative Hotline at 717-734-SPFI (7734). Im more afraid of top-down attempts to control Twitter than I am of the cultural harm it produces.. To this end, we place a special emphasis on defending the individual rights of students and faculty members on our nation's campuses, including freedom of speech, freedom of association, due . 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. right-wing racists get together and say that they have been excluded from a public space that does not . Its largest donors appear to be anonymous right-wing billionaires contributing throughDonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund. 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. Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Inc. Mission The mission of FIRE is to defend and sustain individual rights at America's colleges and universities. Annual lobbyist employer reports. Were genuinely nonpartisan in the cases we take, he said. Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. 223 transactions on record as a recipient. Although the details are purposely obscured, its likely that Charles Koch and his family have additionally contributed to groups in this list through the anonymous donor funds DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund. In truth, as I have argued, conservative political correctness doesnt need to shout as loudly as its progressive variant only because its already baked into every Economics 101 course and into the premises and protocols of career advancement that the larger society foists on undergraduates. It detailed a $75 million expansion plan over three years to focus on "litigation, public education, and research," with $10 million for a nationwide advertising campaign. [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. The organization, which has worked for more than 20 years to defend free expression on college . Many of FIREs founders and backers are former leaders of the ACLU who have grown disillusioned with the group under its current executive director, Anthony Romero, who left the Ford Foundation to take over the storied civil liberties organization in 2001. FIRE receives substantial funding from a handful of conservative private donors, including $3.5 million from anonymous conservative donors through Donors Capital Fund and DonorsTrust, $1.3 million each from the right-wing Bradley Foundation and Sarah Scaife Foundation, and about $1 million between the Charles Koch Foundation and F.M. The voices that think of free speech as a dirty word on campus or on Twitter are actually a pretty small minority.. The Bill of Rights Institute, established in September 1999 by the Charles G. Koch Foundation, is a Virginia based nonprofit that promotes teaching a conservative interpretation of the Constitution. However, he said in the last fiscal year, about 69 percent of FIREs funding came from individual donors and about 31 percent from foundations. Argentina. Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) is a small nonprofit organization geared toward student libertarians. Among those endorsing FIREs expansion are former ACLU President Nadine Strossen and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. [100], In 2020, FIRE partnered with College Pulse and RealClearEducation to release the College Free Speech Rankings, a comparison of student free-speech environments at America's top college campuses. ", "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. Email: ROBERT@THEFIRE.ORG. [93], Since 2016, FIRE has produced "So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast," hosted by Perrino. Some backers see FIRE moving to take on fights ceded by ACLU. Do I believe bad actors are abusing this? +. The ACLU enjoyed a massive surge in funding following Trumps victory in 2016 and now brings in almost $400 million to its coffers each year. ADF sometimes bills its university academic freedom litigation as part of its Center for Academic Freedom, and lists the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education as an affiliated group on its website page for academic freedom cases. YALs foundation arm appears to receive the bulk of its funding from the Charles Koch Foundation and DonorsTrust. Last year, George Mason University renamed its law school as The Antonin Scalia Law School, following a $10 million contribution from the Charles Koch Foundation. Glassdoor has 29 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reviews submitted anonymously by Foundation for Individual Rights in Education employees. [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. 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. The F.M. [103][104], In February 2022, FIRE produced an advertisement featuring National Basketball Association (NBA) player Enes Kanter Freedom for the 2022 Winter Olympics in China, supporting freedom of speech. Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. [9] [10] He also has ties to the Trump administration, asProject Veritas has received funding from the Donald J. Trump Foundation. The PEN reports failure to note all this is perhaps its only major failing. Turning Point USA is a nonprofit whose stated mission is to identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of fiscal responsibility, free markets, and limited government. The groups tagline is big government sucks, and a recent video advertising the groups presence at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) included several millennials repeating the tagline into the camera as club music played in the background. 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. 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. 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. It is a member of the State Policy Network. Belgi (Nederlands) ADF has also long opposed anti-bullying efforts in schools, decrying any anti-bullying policy that includes sexual orientation or gender identity. The Leadership Institute also operates Campus Reform, a website where student reporters write about perceived instances of liberal bias on college campuses. Eklavya Foundation, Bhopal 462026, India. . 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. 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. 21-84. v. Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. 02/21/23 11:14 AM EST, Video & Audio Lukianoff said FIRE has raised $28.5 million for a planned three-year, $75 million litigation, opinion research and public education campaign aimed at boosting and solidifying support for free-speech values. College campuses have long served as unique places for the free exchange of ideas -- but increasingly theyve also become playgrounds for ideologically driven, right-wing billionaires and the dark-money groups they fund. 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