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. Its leader, Kristan Hawkins, has also praised Tony Perkins of Family Research Council, another anti-LGBTQ hate group. Top contributors to the David Horowitz Freedom Center include the right-wing Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and anonymous conservative donors through DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund. 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. Even with the planned expansion by FIRE, the ACLU will continue to dwarf the upstart organization in size and funding. This post may be updated with further groups and financial connections in the future. FIRE is unable to take other submissions by phone. Now it's trying to sue its critics", "The World and Everything in It: September 5, 2022", "Stanford, Georgetown, U. of Florida listed among 10 'worst free speech colleges' in U.S.", "The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression ranks Penn second-to-last college in free speech", "Week 3: Can Protests Make A Difference? [69], FIRE has criticized Columbia University's sexual misconduct policy;[70] according to FIRE, the policy "lack[ed] even the most minimal safeguards and fundamental principles of fairness". Please, become a member, or make a one-time donation, today. And, tomorrow, PEN Executive Director Nossel will have an opportunity to make up for it by asking Lukianoff directly why FIRE highlights and occasionally even provokes politically correct threats to freedom of speech, as I watched it do at Yale, and why it seldom if ever mentions the many conservative politically correct pressures on students and teachers that I described in Why Bashing Politically Correct Campuses Is Hurting Conservatism.. [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. [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. 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. [82], In 2022, FIRE released a series of advertisements in Boston, Massachusetts, accusing Emerson College of censoring free speech on campus. [36][37] These fees are charged to pay for extra security, which colleges say is necessary due to the likelihood of demonstrations and disruption of events. 03/01/23 8:20 PM EST, Video & Audio The organization has received millions in funding from the Charles G. Koch Foundation, the Claude R. Lambe Foundation, and the Stand Together Trust ." Media Matters has mapped out some of the biggest actors behind astroturf conservative campus activism, creating an echo chamber of seemingly grass-roots right-wing student media and campus groups that are actually propped up by a handful of the same conservative funders and, sometimes, even prominent hate groups. 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. 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 [80] Wallace's diploma was initially put on hold for the email, prompting FIRE to contact Stanford in his defense. 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There he shot the infamous video of an overwrought black 20-year-old shrieking at a professor, and also triggered (if I may) an angry demonstration against the Buckley program itself. 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. [56], In October 2011, Catawba Valley Community College suspended a student (Marc Bechtol) for complaining on Facebook about a new policy that required students to sign up for a debit card to get their student ID and grant money. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is an organization whose work concerns university students and faculty members the organization considers to have been discriminated against by administrators and the government while promoting values such as free speech, academic freedom, and due process. Kirby Foundation. OKeefe also regularly incites his loyal internet followers to practice their own brand of investigative journalism. He takes pleasure in targeting college campuses that he perceives as suppressing free speech. In 2015, Project Veritas released a video purporting to show administrators at several colleges and universities literally shredding a copy of the Constitution in response to an undercover actor posing as a student upset by the document. In addition to pushing hate in state laws, court cases, and public schools, ADF has also represented Turning Point USA in at least one lawsuit alleging campus discrimination against a conservative student, and has partnered with chapters of Students for Life to create draft legislation for newly elected Republican legislatures in 2010. 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. 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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? [2][5] Silverglate had served on the board of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Massachusetts. 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. 2012. 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. The Unite the Right rally they held ended with violence, including the death of a 32-year-old woman who was run over by a car driven by a far-right demonstrator whose friends said he was obsessed with Hitler. 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. Thats not as Orwellian as it may sound. FIREs new expansion is also a challenge of sorts to the ACLU, which has faced criticism in recent years for drifting from its unapologetically pro-free-speech roots and taking a more direct role in partisan political fights. Suspiciously? Were genuinely nonpartisan in the cases we take, he said. Among those endorsing FIREs expansion are former ACLU President Nadine Strossen and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. The F.M. 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. University president Ronald Zaccari misconstrued a caption of the proposed garages as the "Ronald Zaccari Memorial Parking Garage" as a threat to himself. 03/01/23 9:41 PM EST, Video & Audio 03/01/23 10:55 PM EST, Video & Audio [14][third-party source needed] FIRE has been described as a competitor of the larger ACLU. 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. An anonymous student-witness, quoted in the Brandeis Hoot,[74] called Hindley's remarks "inappropriate." 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 school suspended it. Lynum, whose conservative group was suspended by the schools president for circulating China kinda sus stickers promoting the theory that a Chinese government lab caused the oubreak of Covid-19. 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. FIRE cant acknowledge that the more market-driven a university, the more restrictive itlike any business corporationis of individual rights in education. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression's (FIRE's) mission is to defend and sustain the individual rights of all Americans to free speech and free thoughtthe most essential . ", "Who Funds Conservative Campus Group Turning Point USA? 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. The notion that you have to reduce your vigor with which you defend First Amendment rights or you will damage the strength of your advocacy for equal rights for women, gays, and Blacks, et cetera is just demonstrably not true and, yet, theyve done that. The foundation supports free-market teachings at the university level, including by funding individual faculty positions. FIRE, by contrast, raised under $16 million in its last fiscal year. As of August 2020, SPN's membership totals 162. "[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. 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. [30], FIRE has challenged "free speech zones" on college campuses, claiming they are unconstitutional restrictions on First Amendment rights. The voices that think of free speech as a dirty word on campus or on Twitter are actually a pretty small minority.. 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. 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. An advocacy group that has spent more than two decades fighting for free expression on college campuses is broadening its efforts to fight so-called cancel culture and other perceived threats to free speech across American society. FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION INC PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106-3622 | Tax-exempt since July 1999 EIN: 04-3467254 Classification ( NTEE ) Censorship, Freedom of Speech and Press Issues. 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. 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. [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. [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. [49] Although private schools are not bound by the First Amendment, FIRE has said contractual promises related to free speech or academic freedom should be upheld. 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, . I do. Some backers see FIRE moving to take on fights ceded by ACLU. The centers sister organization, the Institute for Humane Studies, serves as a libertarian recruitment firm, identifying, developing, and supporting talented students, scholars, and other intellectuals who share an interest in liberty and in advancing the principles and practice of freedom. The institute has received nearly $24 million in support from the Charles Koch Foundation, more than $4 million from DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund combined, and $2 million from David Kochs foundation in recent years. 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. 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. 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.. Maybe the Bard conferees will have better luck. Part of the push may challenge the American Civil Liberties Unions primacy as a defender of free speech. 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). The new initiative includes $10 million in planned national cable and billboard advertising featuring activists on both ends of the political spectrum extolling the virtues of free speech, officials said. The ACLU faced internal upheaval in 2017 after its Virginia chapter provided legal assistance to white-nationalist groups seeking a permit to demonstrate in Charlottesville, Va. Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is actively using 42 technologies for its website, according to BuiltWith. No wonder theyre looking to scapegoat frightened students and deans. [61], In 2014, FIRE sued Chicago State University (CSU) for trying to shut down a faculty blog critical of CSU's former administration. Pushers of these protocols insist that free markets make free men, as the old saying had it, and Lukianoff travels the country touting the marketplace of ideas on campus after campus. 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. The Times Jennifer Schuessler reported last weekend that although [t]he conventional wisdom surrounding American college life these days views campuses as hotbeds of intolerance for free speech, the PEN report questions that story line while warning of a different danger: a growing perception among young people that cries of free speech are too often used as a cudgel against them., In other words, one thing threatening freedom of expression on campus is the free speech crusade itself. 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. Students for Liberty is a network of pro-liberty students from all over the world that claims to organize almost 3,000 local student groups and 1,400+ leaders around the world in training students to become a new generation of libertarian leaders. [2][11][12][13] Among its other donors is the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation. [1] Kors and Silverglate had co-authored a 1998 book opposing censorship at colleges. [72], FIRE criticized Brandeis University on both free speech and due process grounds in early 2008 over its treatment of veteran politics professor Donald Hindley. 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. The Foundation for Economic Education ( FEE) is an American conservative, libertarian economic think tank. 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. He has had to issue public apologies, has been arrested for trespassing, and has foiled his own plots, yet his videos have been promoted by President Donald Trump. DonorsTrusts tax forms from 2012 to 2014 detail several grants made directly to universities to support scholarship on free market policies. The rise of the so-called alt-right is the most unexpected ideological development of our time. 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. +. [6] It was founded to be non-ideological and nonpartisan. 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. 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.. Most people of the current generation lack a sense of the historical sweep of the intellectual side of the right-wing collectivist position. Lukianoff acknowledged disappointment with major liberal foundations, who have balked at supporting FIREs efforts. more about "Foundation for Individual Rights in Education" RDF feed Page status Help:Seed Guide + Page type Article + Thing type Organization + (One of FIREs biggest funders, the Bradley Foundation, even paid for billboards in black neighborhoods that depicted a black man behind bars and the words Voting Fraud is Felony, a not-so-veiled example of voter intimidation.). FIRE aims to protect college students' First Amendment rights 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. 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