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Explore ��֭��'s library of resources and research on free speech and other civil liberties.

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Campus Guides

FIRE Guide for Greek Organizational Advisors

Based on ��֭��'s 24 years of campus advocacy, this guide is designed to help chapter advisors navigate the labyrinth of campus disciplinary proceedings.

Campus Guides

FIRE Guide for Greek Life: Know Your Rights

This guide provides fraternity and sorority members with a concise summary of their fundamental free speech, freedom of association, and due process rights.

Campus Guides

Let's Talk: Leader Moderation Guide

FIREhas created this Leader Moderation Guide to prepare leaders for their role as moderator and to give them the tools to diffuse tensions in conversation.

Campus Guides

Guide to Working with Student Government

For many students, interacting with student government leaders can be intimidating. However, if you seek to affect change on campus, working with student governments can be one of the best tools at your disposal.

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Campus Guides

FAQ: Adopting Free Speech Lessons for Orientation & First-Year Experience Programming

FIREhas developed a series of free-to-use modules, videos, and other resources for universities to utilize when teaching incoming students about their free speech rights and the principles behind the First Amendment.

Campus Guides

Scholars Under Fire Database Guide

Learn more about what a “targeting incident” is, how FIREcatalogs these incidents, and how you can use our database to learn more about this concerning phenomenon.

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Campus Guides

Let's Talk: Start Up Guide

��֭��’s Let’s Talk program provides students with tools to work towards a more intellectually open campus environment.

Campus Guides

User's Guide to ��֭��'s Campus Disinvitation Database

��֭��’s Campus Disinvitation Database catalogues incidents led by students and faculty to “disinvite” speakers with whom they disagree from campus appearances.

Campus Guides

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��֭��’s Guides to Student Rights on Campus emphasize the critical importance of rule of law and fair procedure over partisan and repressive rules.

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Campus Guides

FIRE's Guide to Student Fees, Funding, and Legal Equality on Campus

This FIREguide explains the significance of student activity fees and their relationship with free expression and campus equality.

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Campus Guides

FIRE's Guide to First-Year Orientation and Thought Reform on Campus

Freedom of conscience is the right to arrive at one’s private beliefs, without being coerced into an artificial unity by those who wield power over us.

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Campus Guides

FIRE's Guide to Free Speech on Campus

FIREhas distributed more than 138,000 print and online copies of its Guide to Free Speech on Campus to equip students with the rhetorical and legal tools to stand up for their rights.

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Campus Guides

FIRE's Guide to Religious Liberty on Campus

��֭��’s Guide to Religious Liberty on Campus explains how the legal and moral arguments for religious liberty apply to public and private colleges.

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Campus Guides

FIRE's Guide to Due Process and Campus Justice

This FIREGuide informs readers about the appropriate (and inappropriate) methods by which university administrators address issues of academic and non-academic misconduct.