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 as well as your Facebook profile.
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 cfn@thefire.org. If you have added a Facebook widget, simply become a fan of "FIRE's Campus Freedom Network" and mention on the wall that you have added a widget and we will update your point total.
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. | 
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Adding the Spotlight widget to your blog or website
Visit thefire.org/spotlight and select your school by state, region, or just by typing it into the search box.
When your school’s page comes up, look on the right sidebar to see the widget for that particular school. Below it is a box with some text in it—select it all and copy it to the clipboard.
Go to your blog or website, and paste in the text wherever you want the widget to appear (it’s made for a sidebar, but should work anywhere).
Send us a link to your site with the widget posted on it and your mailing address.
Then we’ll send you a free FIRE t-shirt or FIRE coffee mug!
Adding the Spotlight widget to your Facebook Profile
Adding our Spotlight widget to your Facebook profile is really easy. All you need to do is visit http://apps.facebook.com/speech_codes/ and follow the steps.
FIRE's Speech Code of the Month WidgetIf your college or university is not currently in FIRE’s database or if you simply want to add another widget to your blog, website or Facebook profile, 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
Visit thefire.org/scotm and look on the right sidebar to see the widget for that month. Below it is a box with some text in it—select it all and copy it to the clipboard.
Go to your blog or website, and paste in the text wherever you want the widget to appear (it’s made for a sidebar, but should work anywhere).
Send us a link to your site with the widget posted on it and your mailing address.
Then we’ll send you a free FIRE t-shirt or FIRE coffee mug!
Adding the Spotlight widget to your Facebook Profile
