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Officials at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression told Inside Higher Ed that 2025 marked an all-time high for entries in its Students Under Fire database, which documents efforts to suppress legally protected speech. FIRE logged 273 entries last year, beating the record of 252 set in 2020, the year the database was established. FIRE officials also note they are fielding more complaints about suppression of left-leaning speech.