This week we have been counting down the top five reasons Torch readers should support FIRE in this gift-giving season. Yesterday, Amanda explored the many ways in which FIRE is educating tens of thousands of students and professors about their rights...

Yesterday, FOX34 News in Lubbock, Texas, ran a segment on Texas Tech University's "red-light" rating in FIRE's Spotlight database. The university earned this rating because of language in its policy on e-mail and computer use that restricts freedom of...

Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor is the latest media outlet to weigh in on the teacher education scandal at University of Minnesota–Twin Cities (transcript) (video). Bill O'Reilly gets it right in his interview with John Stossel: This is not just...

Amanda Gonzalez is FIRE's Drexel University Co-op and assists staff with the day-to-day operations of the office. As a Drexel University student, I have had the privilege of working at FIRE for several months through a collaboration...

Today, FIRE announced the winners of our 2009 "Freedom in Academia" high school essay contest. Out of the over 2,700 submissions for the contest, FIRE chose eight winning essays. Home school student Nathaniel Cornelius of Paynesville, Minnesota, wrote...