Brown University
A red light university has at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech. Read more here.
| Public or Private: | Private | |
| Federal Circuit: | First Circuit | |
| Head of Institution: | President Ruth J Simmons Brown University Office of the President 1 Prospect Street Campus Box 1860 Providence, RI 02912 401-863-2234 president@brown.edu |
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| Website: | http://www.brown.edu | |
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On this page, FIRE has excerpted policies that address speech and expression. You may download the full policy in .pdf form, below.
Restrictions on Expressive Rights
Harassment Policies (Learn More)
Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action: Discrimination/Harassment Policy 09-10
Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action: Sexual Harassment Policy 09-10
1. Unwelcome sexual propositions, invitations, solicitations, and flirtations. ...
3. Unwelcome verbal expressions of a sexual nature, including graphic sexual commentaries about a person's body, dress, appearance, or sexual activities; the unwelcome use of sexually degrading language, jokes or innuendoes; unwelcome suggestive or insulting sounds or whistles; obscene phone calls.
4. Sexually suggestive objects, pictures, videotapes, audio recordings, computer communications, or literature placed in the work or study area, that may embarrass or offend individuals.
Student Rights and Responsibilities: Harassment - Sexual or Racial 09-10
Brown University Health Services: Health Education - Sexual Harassment 09-10
* Uninvited touching or hugging
* Requesting sexual favors for rewards related to school or work
* Suggestive jokes of a sexual nature
* Sexual pictures or displays
* Continuing unwelcome flirtation or propositions
* Obscene gestures or sounds
* Written notes of a sexual nature
Student Rights and Responsibilities: Standards of Student Conduct 09-10
Internet Usage Policies
Acceptable Use Examples 09-10
Student Rights and Responsibilities: Computing Policies 09-10
Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action: Discrimination/Harassment Policy 09-10
"Academic freedom is essential to the function of education and the pursuit of scholarship in universities. Therefore, Brown University, mindful of its historic commitment to scholarship and to the free exchange of ideas, affirms that faculty and students alike shall enjoy full freedom in their teaching, learning, and research. Brown University also affirms that faculty and students shall have freedom of religious belief, of speech, of press, of association and assembly, of political activity inside and outside the University, the right to petition authorities, public and university, to invite speakers of their choice to the campus and that students and faculty as such should not be required to take any oath not required of other citizens. The time, place and manner of exercising these rights on campus shall be subject to reasonable regulation only to prevent interference with the normal functions of the University."
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The speech codes and policies above were last fully checked via internet and other research means by FIRE in January 2010. According to FIRE’s research the substantive policies are current at least until this date. Directory information, including the name of the president of the college or university, may have been updated more recently. If any policy has been revised, or if you believe that we are in error, please contact us.