As you may know, FIRE strongly opposed last year's effort by Yale students to get two professors, Erika and Nicholas Christakis, fired from their posts at the university. One school that people may have expected to see on the list that did not make it is Yale University. This is our fifth annual list, and it covers the time that has passed since we published our fourth list during this time last year. With an epic year behind us, we are proud to present the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education's (FIRE's) list of the worst schools for free speech in 2016. Perhaps the most striking trend of the last year was the number of professors, even tenured professors, who found their livelihoods under threat for what they said either on or off campus. Some campuses renewed their commitments to freedom of speech, while others backpedaled. While some students filed lawsuits to fight campus "free speech zones," others demanded new, restrictive campus speech codes.
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