Disparate funding of student organizations at colleges and universities has for years thwarted student attempts to raise awareness of provocative campus issues. By denying funding to organizations whose viewpoints are controversial or out of current fashion, administrators ensure a campus that lacks meaningful, substantive debate and that unfairly restricts speech. A 9-0 Supreme Court decision in Wisconsin v. Southworth (1999), in conjunction with the decision in Rosenberger v. University of Virginia (1996), ensures that student organizations must be funded without regard to the message they propound (content neutrality). FIRE’s Guide to Student Fees, Funding, and Legal Equality provides a thorough explanation of the significance of student activity fees and their direct correlation with free expression and campus equality. This Guide provides students with the information they need to stand up for the fair distribution of student funds and educates administrators on the intricacies of this largely unexplored area of First Amendment law. It aims to answer the following questions: 
How does one wage an effective and successful campaign against disparate funding at my institution? 
How does one respond to an administrative claim that it is under no obligation to fund my worthwhile cause? 
What is the best method of requesting funding for my organization? 
When is too little funding an effective denial of funds and repressive of speech?

FIRE's Guide to Student Fees, Funding, and Legal Equality on Campus

Jordan Lorence

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

FIRE's Guide to First-Year Orientation and Thought Reform on Campus

Harvey Silverglate

FIREs Guides to Student Rights on Campus is a set of innovative, widely respected, and well-received vehicle for changing the culture on college and university campuses. They do so by emphasizing the critical importance of legal equality over the selective assignment of rights and responsibilities, of self-governance over coercion, and of the rule of law and fair procedure over the ad hoc and arbitrary imposition of partisan and repressive rules.

Fire's Guides to Student Rights On Campus - 5 VOL. COLLECTION OF FIVE TITLES - First Year Orientation and Thought Reform, Religious Liberty on Campus, ... Fees, Funding, legal Equality on Campus

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Greg Lukianoff

David French

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (Fire)

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