The Alumni Free Speech Alliance is dedicated to preserving free speech, academic freedom, and viewpoint diversity on college campuses. RT≠ endorsement.joinafsa.org Washington DCJoined March 2023
🚫 Enforce Zero-Tolerance for Shout-Downs
Shouting down a speaker isn’t protest—it’s censorship. At Cornell, the Pathways to Peace event was derailed when protesters created chaos for both the speakers and the audience. Many faced charges afterward.
The #FreeSpeechReset equips…
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🎓 Push for Free Speech Education
Free expression shouldn’t be optional. It should be part of orientation.
The #FreeSpeechReset gives alumni two easy ways to make it happen:
✍️ Use our Letter to the Dean of Students template
📰 Publish an op-ed: “Why Freshmen Need Free Speech…
Inviting a speaker should never turn into a political brawl. Students, faculty, and alumni deserve clear and consistent rules. At UVA, when @AbigailShrier spoke, protests escalated, guests were harassed coming and going with some even followed to their cars, and @TheJeffersonC…
This Friday at Cornell, students are promoting an “Occupy the Quad” event (3–5 pm, Arts Quad near Olin Library). The flyer advertises music, snacks, and button-making — but the title and disclaimer openly reference Hind’s Hall protests and past campus occupations.
That’s the…
🚨 The Free Speech Reset is LIVE 🚨
This fall, alumni are stepping up to restore open debate on campus.
Your group chooses 3 actions out of 7 — we’ll give you the toolkit, templates, and national spotlight.
Action Menu (Pick 3):
📖 Push for Free Speech Education
📜 Publish…
🏛️ @walterkirn cuts to the heart of higher ed’s crisis—not from the admin building, but from the student’s point of view.
“I have a lot of empathy for the sensible young people of America,” he tells @megynkelly, especially “those who have put themselves into huge debt.”
Kirn…
Pennsylvania’s higher ed system is in crisis. Chancellor Christopher Fiorentino admits as much, describing Penn State’s closure of seven campuses as “gut-wrenching”—but necessary due to plummeting enrollment.
Over the last decade, the state system lost a third of its students.…
Dartmouth President @sianbeilock offers a rare voice of reason in higher ed.
She defends institutional independence—“when governments assert that power, we need to push back through legal action”—but also urges reform: “We need brave spaces, not safe spaces… We’re educational…
This rant twists viewpoint diversity into “white conservative affirmative action” and a plot to “replace DEI” with “ideological quotas that favor the political right.”
“They’re demanding ideological quotas that favor the political right… pressuring universities to hire…
A student strolls across campus wearing a shirt with a cartoon man tipping his hat to ChatGPT.
"Prompt. Submit. Repeat. Graduate."
That’s it. That’s the degree process now at some of our best universities.
No challenge. No critical thinking. Just prompts and automation dressed…
“We can know we’ve gotten closer to the truth. But we can never know we’ve reached it.”
— Karl Popper
Popper wasn’t rejecting truth—he was defending its pursuit.
The fallibility of man doesn’t excuse falsehood. It demands humility, rigor, and the freedom to debate openly.…
Mechanical engineering student Nico questions the value of general education classes like philosophy and psychology, arguing they’re unrelated to his field and could be replaced with more relevant coursework—or skipped entirely.
His critique isn’t our position, but it raises a…
We’ve heard it before: DFTD is out of touch.
But the numbers tell a different story. Recent grads are one of our fastest-growing cohorts, and they’re leading the charge to defend open discourse at Davidson.
This isn’t nostalgia, it’s a turning point.
An Oxford professor finishes his lecture. The students erupt in applause. He smiles, shrugs, and says quietly, “This is my job.”
No ego. No theatrics. Just a teacher who loves what he does—grateful to call it the best job in the world.
He doesn’t treat the classroom as a…
University of Tulsa philosophy professor @jennfrey offers a powerful defense of the Great Books tradition—at a time when it’s increasingly under siege.
“Yes, it’s under siege,” she says. “It’s been under siege my whole adult life. But that doesn’t mean it’s not good and worth…
Over the weekend on Real Time, Bill Maher lit into academia.
“Academia needed a hot poker up the ass… Our universities have been out of control for a long time. They became indoctrination factories. There’s absolutely no diversity of thought.”
Rep. Jason Crow tries to wave it…
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