The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is a non-profit organization, focused on safeguarding constitutional rights of America’s college and university students. The organization was found by professor Alan Charles Kors from the University of Pennsylvania and Boston civil liberties attorney Harvey Silverglate in 1998 (It was in response to the popularity of their book, The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America’s Campuses). Rights protected by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education include: freedom of speech, equal legal representation, right to due process, religious liberty, and a women’s the right to choose. According to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s website, the organization’s mission is to protect the vulnerable, inform the public about the threats to their constitutional rights throughout the nation’s campuses and educate people about how to preserve these rights.
