These rights include freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of consciencethe essential qualities of individual liberty and dignity. 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.. Its given $15 million to Young Americas Foundation, more than $8 million to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, as well as smaller donations to the Leadership Institute. Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. "[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". 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: It was renamed Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, keeping the acronym FIRE. With FIRE support, the expulsion was overturned and a court found VSU to have violated Barnes's due process rights. 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. [84][85] Emerson claimed the stickers represented "anti-China hate", while FIRE blamed the school for violating "freedom of expression". 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. [73] FIRE, along with Brandeis' own Committee on Faculty Rights and Responsibilities, criticized Krauss for never explicitly telling Hindley what specific in-class comments constituted harassing speech and for not granting Hindley a process by which to appeal the decision. Some backers see FIRE moving to take on fights ceded by ACLU. Such offenses often prompt not intimidation and silence but more speech, including criticism from liberals. Eklavya Foundation, Bhopal 462026, India. "[75], In 2015, FIRE defended Erika Christakis, associate master of Yale University's Silliman College, after she questioned the school's Intercultural Affairs Council for highlighting the cultural implications of Halloween costumes. 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The College Fix is a conservative blog featuring posts from college student reporters about higher-education news. Articles from The College Fix have been cited on Breitbart.com and on Fox News, fueling claims of liberal bias on college campuses with little factual evidence. [55], In 2008, college professor Kerry Laird was ordered by Temple College to remove the quote, "Gott ist tot" (God is Dead), a famous quote from Nietzsche, from his office door. [10][1][4] In 2021, the organization had an annual revenue of $16.1 million. [6] It was founded to be non-ideological and nonpartisan. 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.. 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. 223 transactions on record as a recipient. [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. [65] In March 2022, the school settled the lawsuit. See the metrics below for more information. Argentina. FIRE wrote a letter to the Temple administration hinting at the possibility of legal action. Email . FIRE is justified, up to a point, in criticizing black protesters who shout down and intimidate classmates and professors by branding their colleges as racist, and in challenging feminist government and university bureaucrats who impose unfair standards and procedures when judging sexual assault charges. CVCC decided that the comments were "disturbing" and a "threat", and used that reasoning to suspend the student. ADF has received substantial funding from the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation, as well as small donations from anonymous conservative donors through DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund. In addition to funding medical research and more standard philanthropic endeavors, the F.M. [91], Since 2011, FIRE has published a list of the "worst colleges for free speech. Lukianoff declined to detail who has contributed the $28 million for the new initiative or what prompted them to offer funding. 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. [86] FIRE also launched the website "Emerson Kinda Sus" in response. 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 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. If you silence people, you never get to hear the other side, Klaer says. "[51], FIRE joined with a number of other civil liberties groups in the case of Hosty v. Carter, involving suppression of a student newspaper at Governors State University in Illinois,[52] and has been involved in a case at Arizona State University where it condemned the listing of certain sections of a class as open only to Native American students. [50], In 2021, in response to the board of trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill declining to give Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure, FIRE released a statement saying "if it is accurate that this refusal was the result of viewpoint discrimination against Hannah-Jones, particularly based on political opposition to her appointment, this decision has disturbing implications for academic freedom. Dunn's Foundation for the Advancement of Right Thinking. 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. Among those endorsing FIREs expansion are former ACLU President Nadine Strossen and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. And lets hope that theyll ask Lukianoff to explain his funding, premises, and the pattern and practice of his propaganda and provocations and omissions, which surround and often undermine his groups legitimate complaints. In 2014, the foundation gave a total of more than $24 million for use in educational programs, educational grants, and general operating support at these schools and organizations, including more than $11.8 million in 2014 to George Mason University, which hosts the conservative Mercatus Center and Institute for Humane Studies. 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. 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. 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. Its major grants come from the ultraconservative Earhart, John Templeton, and Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundations; the Scaife family foundations; the Koch-linked Donors Trust, and funders that sustain a myriad of conservative campus-targeting organizations that include FIRE, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, the David Horowitz Freedom Center (whose Academic Bill of Rights would mandate more hiring of conservative faculty and would monitor professors syllabi for balance), and Campus Watch (which tracks and condemns liberal professors comments on the Middle East). Its leader, Kristan Hawkins, has also praised Tony Perkins of Family Research Council, another anti-LGBTQ hate group. 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. [39] The school settled the lawsuit and agreed to revise its policies. 2018, the petition had 89,488 signatures); and Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Letter to Fresno University President Joseph Castro, . Its always been the case that some people have believed absolutely crazy things. Its also donated nearly half a million dollars to the anti-LGBTQ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom. Thinking that free speech is the problem here is, I think, missing the point, Lukianoff said. 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. By Barbara Miner. 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. FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION (FIRE) Address: 170 S INDEPENDENCE MALL W. PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106. 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. 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