The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has substantial concerns about CSU’s new “Free Speech and Peaceful Assembly” policy.

In response to recent changes to CSU’s “Free Speech and Peaceful Assembly” policy (see “Revised Free Speech Policy Alarms Faculty and Students”), the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE*) shares AAUP-CSU’s concerns that this fast-tracked policy revision

“…constitutes an impermissible restraint on faculty members’ speech and threatens to chill expression. As a public university system legally bound to protect community members’ First Amendment rights, CSU must revise this policy and allow faculty members to speak their minds freely.”

Read FIRE’s full letter to the CSU administration here and then please join the AAUP-CSU in our ongoing Postcard Campaign to ask the CSU Administration and the Board of Governors to Support Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and Student Centers.

The fundamental rights to Free Speech and Peaceful Assembly must be protected for all students, faculty, and staff.

* FIRE (https://www.thefire.org/) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit group whose mission is to defend free speech.