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FIRE Guides to Student Rights on Campus

FIRE’s Guides to Student Rights on Campus are an innovative vehicle for changing the culture on college and university campuses and understanding student rights. They emphasize the critical importance of legal equality over the selective assignment of rights and responsibilities, of self-governance over coercion, and of the rule of law and fair procedure over the ad hoc and arbitrary imposition of partisan and repressive rules.

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FIRE's Guide to Free Speech on Campus

November 25, 2013

Campus Guides

FIRE has distributed more than 138,000 print and online copies of its Guide to Free Speech on Campus since its first publication in 2005.

FIRE's Guide to Due Process and Campus Justice

December 6, 2013

Campus Guides

Guide to legal and moral arguments in support of due process protections that explains their application on private and public campuses.

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FIRE's Guide to Religious Liberty on Campus

December 6, 2013

Campus Guides

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

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

December 6, 2013

Campus Guides

Before one can have the freedom to express ideas in open debate, however, one must have freedom of conscience: 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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FIRE's Guide to Student Fees, Funding, and Legal Equality on Campus

December 6, 2013

Campus Guides

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

It is imperative that our nation's future leaders be educated about the central tenets of a free society and that they be able to debate and resolve peaceful differences without resorting to coercion and repression. To help achieve this goal, FIRE launched its series of Guides to Student Rights on Campus.

The Guides are an innovative, widely respected, and well-received vehicle for changing the culture on college and university campuses and understanding student rights. They do so by emphasizing the critical importance of legal equality over the selective assignment of rights and responsibilities, of self-governance over coercion, and of the rule of law and fair procedure over the ad hoc and arbitrary imposition of partisan and repressive rules.

A distinguished group of legal scholars from across the political and ideological spectrum serves as Board of Editors to this series. The diversity of the members of this Board proves that liberty on campus is not a question of partisan politics, but of the rights and responsibilities of free individuals in a society governed by the rule of law.

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