The CFN is pleased to announce the addition of widgets to the arsenal of tools provided to our student and faculty allies as well as the public at large. As you can see below, we have two different kinds of widgets which are available for both your website or blog.

Note to CFN members: You can earn 5 points in the CFN Incentive Program just by adding a widget. When you add one of the widgets simply send a link to  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

FIRE's Spotlight Widget

You can help end speech codes at your college campus by posting a FIRE Spotlight Widget on your blog or website. The widget will link directly to a page of your choice on Spotlight: The Campus Freedom Resource, our speech code ratings database that covers more than 350 colleges and universities nationwide, with more added every year. FIRE staffers and lawyers annually review policies at these institutions to determine whether the school is a “red light,” meaning it has at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech; a “yellow light,” meaning it maintains some policies that could ban or excessively regulate protected speech; or a “green light,” which indicates that FIRE was unable to find any policies that would seriously imperil free speech on campus. Spotlight’s speech code ratings have been repeatedly cited in newspapers from the Wall Street Journal and USA Today to local and campus newspapers across the country.

Adding the Spotlight widget to your blog or website

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FIRE's Speech Code of the Month Widget

If your college or university is not currently in FIRE’s database or if you simply want to add another widget to your blog or website, consider adding our SCOTM widgets. Each month, FIRE features a college or university with a particularly egregious speech code as its Speech Code of the Month. The Speech Code of the Month feature serves both to educate the public about the broader problem of speech codes on campus and to use public pressure to encourage particular institutions to abandon repressive policies.

Adding the Speech Code of the Month widget to your blog or website

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FIRE's Red Alert Widget

FIRE's Red Alert widget will take viewers to FIRE's Red Alert page, where they will learn of the many transgressions of the schools on our Red Alert list.

Adding the Red Alert Widget widget to your blog or website

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