EDITORS NOTE: This is the submission sent by PFS to Princeton on the proposal to remove the statue of John Witherspoon currently being considered by the University. December 19, 2022
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This is the submission sent by PFS to Princeton on the proposal to remove the statue of John Witherspoon currently being considered by the University.
Read More On December 5, leaders of the Alumni Free Speech Alliance (AFSA), including AFSA president and PFS co-founder Edward Yingling, participated in an important congressional roundtable on free speech on college campuses. AFSA participants also including John Craig, AFSA Treasurer; students from W&L and UVA who are very involved with AFSA members there; and Raj Kannappan of Young America’s Foundation (YAF) and a member of AFSA’s Cornell alumni group member. Other participants were from the Foundation on Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA). December 05, 2022
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On December 5, leaders of the Alumni Free Speech Alliance (AFSA), including AFSA president and PFS co-founder Edward Yingling, participated in an important congressional roundtable on free speech on college campuses.
Read More By Leslie Spencer November 18, 2022
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By Leslie Spencer
As concern mounts about the status of those principles that preserve and honor freedom of expression in American higher education, Princeton’s James Madison Program recently launched the Initiative on Freedom of Thought, Inquiry and Expression.
Read More Princeton showed great progress in its positive presentation on free speech during this year's orientation, but much work remains to be done, as shown in the just released annual free speech rankings from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). Princeton was a poor 169 out of 203 colleges and universities ranked. These rankings are largely based on students perceptions, and therefore do not directly address Princeton issues such as the attack on Professor Katz for an article he wrote by the University itself over the last year. Hopefully this year's orientation will lead to further positive actions, and Princeton's FIRE ranking will improve next year.
Click here to see FIRE Rankings October 21, 2022
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Princeton showed great progress in its positive presentation on free speech during this year's orientation, but much work remains to be done, as shown in the just released annual free speech rankings from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).
Read More For the first time on a college campus, faculty, students, and alumni have created an organization to promote and defend free speech and academic freedom on their campus. The creation of the Princeton Free Speech Union was announced in a full page advertisement in the Princeton Daily this week, The Princeton Free Speech Union is a coordinating body consisting of an informal coalition of faculty, a student free speech group (the Princeton Open Campus Coalition), and Princetonians for Free Speech. September 09, 2022
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For the first time on a college campus, faculty, students, and alumni have created an organization to promote and defend free speech and academic freedom on their campus.
Read More By Stuart Taylor, Jr. and Edward Yingling September 06, 2022
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We have been quite critical of Princeton's orientation a year ago, which contained not one word about Princeton's robust free speech rule and in fact contained a section on racism at Princeton that suggested free speech is a tool for racists. We will not revisit those criticisms here.
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