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The Alliance Defending Freedom Center for Academic Freedom is dedicated to providing students and student organizations with support and information as they face escalating attacks on their free speech and religious freedom at America’s public universities. All students should be protected to freely speak and engage in the marketplace of ideas on campus under the First Amendment.
New Movie Showcases Just How Much Speech is Restricted on Some University Campuses

New Movie Showcases Just How Much Speech is Restricted on Some University Campuses

By Ryan Everson Posted on: | November 08, 2019 On many college campuses, students and faculty with traditional Christian views are censored from supporting views they believe and compelled to speak things they don’t believe. In a captivating new movie called “No Safe Spaces,” Dennis Prager of PragerU and podcaster Adam Carolla shed light on this problematic […]

This Baby Was Saved After These Pro-Life Students Stood for Freedom

This Baby Was Saved After These Pro-Life Students Stood for Freedom

When a student named Jess found herself facing an unplanned pregnancy, she felt financially unstable and unready to be a mother. A counselor at Planned Parenthood even told her that abortion was her only option.

Jess was frantic. But then one day as she was driving, something caught her eye.

It was a 12-week fetal model showing the developmental stages of a child in the womb. She had gotten it from a Students for Life information table at Fresno State. Jess had placed the fetal model in the rearview mirror of her car. And, at that moment, it was exactly what she needed to see.

This Student Group Was Denied Recognition – But It Didn’t Take “No” for an Answer

This Student Group Was Denied Recognition – But It Didn’t Take “No” for an Answer

What happens when there is unlimited, unchecked power given to one person or group of people?

You guessed it – tyranny.

Well, that is exactly what the student organization environment looked like at College of Charleston last year when the South Carolina Politics Club (SCPC), a non-partisan student group that seeks to organize and educate students on the structure, apparatus, and processes of South Carolina local and state politics, was denied recognition because it was “too similar” to another student group on campus.

This Memorial Day, Let’s Remember Those Who Make the Ultimate Sacrifice for Freedom

This Memorial Day, Let’s Remember Those Who Make the Ultimate Sacrifice for Freedom

I served in the United States Navy for over eight years because I believe the American values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are worth defending and dying for.

I deployed with a helicopter search and rescue squadron onboard the USS Ronald Reagan and later served as a Navy recruiter. Through my experiences deployed at sea and on shore as a recruiter of young men and women, I came to know not only why I chose to join the military but also why hundreds of other young men and women choose to do the same.

To put it simply: We believe in fighting for liberty. We believe that America is the greatest country on Earth. And we want to protect it.

Christianity No Longer Welcome at Yale? 7 Questions with a Yale Law School Student

Christianity No Longer Welcome at Yale? 7 Questions with a Yale Law School Student

Aaron Haviland is a student at Yale Law School. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and the University of Cambridge, and he served in the Marine Corps. Aaron sat down with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) to answer some questions about Yale Law School, free speech on campus, and Yale announcing a new policy that may exclude those who decide to work for nonprofit organizations that abide by Christian teaching from access to financial assistance available to all other students.

This Professor Was Punished for Expressing His Views, But His Voice Is Desperately Needed

This Professor Was Punished for Expressing His Views, But His Voice Is Desperately Needed

By Alliance Defending Freedom posted on: April 17, 2019 By: Walt Heyer Dr. Allan Josephson, the Division Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Louisville, has served as a distinguished professor in good standing for fifteen years. He scored perfect marks in 2014, 2015 and 2016 on his university reviews. But all […]

FREE SPEECH IN DIVIDED TIMES: THE PROBLEM OR THE SOLUTION?