Happy Birthday FIRE
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) today celebrates ten years ofdefending Constitutional rights on college campuses. Alan Charles Kors and Harvey Silverglate founded FIRE in 1999 to combat “the systematic violation of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, due process, and other basic rights on campuses across the nation.” Ever since then, FIRE has done great work, fighting – and often winning – battles on behalf of students, faculty members, and administrators whose freedoms were under attack. Tonight FIRE is hosting an anniversary gala, where NAS members Dr. Jan Blits and Dr. Linda Gottfredson will be honored with a special award for their efforts in exposing the abuses of the University of Delaware residence life program since 2007.
The National Association of Scholars salutes FIRE’s good work, and we are proud of the competent and influential organization it has become.
Thanks, Ashley–FIRE is the best. Even the AAUP’s Cary Nelson recognizes FIRE as more nimble and effective at exposing dumbfounding abuses.
FIRE helped me back in the day when a I opposed group of gender feminists who had hijacked our curriculum committee and for eight years instituted mandatory multiculturalism in all classes. Alan Kors wrote out college president and Thor Halvorssen and I strategized. Eventually the story made the Wall Street Journal and the cabal collapsed. Free at last. Bravo FIRE, Greg, and the whole gang.
Thanks, Ashley–FIRE is the best. Even the AAUP’s Cary Nelson recognizes FIRE as more nimble and effective at exposing dumbfounding abuses.
FIRE helped me back in the day when I opposed a group of gender feminists who had hijacked our curriculum committee and for eight years instituted mandatory multiculturalism in all classes. Alan Kors wrote out college president and Thor Halvorssen and I strategized. Eventually the story made the Wall Street Journal and the cabal collapsed. Free at last. Bravo FIRE, Greg, and the whole gang.
Thanks for the plug. FIRE really is a great organization.
More on the FIRE gala and the honors awarded to Dr. Blits and Dr. Gottfredson: http://chronicle.com/article/At-FIREs-10th-Anniversary/48925/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en