FIRE is calling on Teachers Collegeโ€”Columbia Universityโ€™s graduate school of educationโ€”to abandon its ideological litmus tests for students. These policies are belie the programโ€™s promises of free speech and academic freedom as well as University President Lee Bollingerโ€™s recent statements, in the wake of the Minutemen affair, on the importance of free expression at Columbia University.

Bollinger must back up his highminded statements with action, and liberating Teachers College from stifling political correctness is a good place to start.