University of Central Florida

Location:		Orlando, FL 32816
Website:		http://www.ucf.edu

Speech Code Rating

University of Central Florida has been given a speech code rating of Yellow. You may read more about this institution's speech code rating at this page.

FIRE Cases at University of Central Florida

Recent Media Coverage of University of Central Florida

"Flunking free speech," Reason Online, December 24, 2007
"UCF rules fuel debate on freedom of speech," Orlando Sentinel, December 17, 2006
"Students challenge UCF's ‘free-assembly’ policies," Daytona Beach News-Journal, December 6, 2006
"College Athletes Caught in Tangled Web," The San Diego Union-Tribune, May 24, 2006
"Lack of Legal Precedent Poses Major Problem for Schools," Daily Bulletin (Ontario, Calif.), May 22, 2006
"University presidents battle for honors in spinelessness," Universal Press Syndicate, May 1, 2006

Posts to The Torch About University of Central Florida

"‘Time, Place and Manner’ at the University of Michigan and Elsewhere," February 21, 2008
"UCF Ambiguously Curtails Free Speech," December 12, 2007
"Speech Codes Don’t Get Enforced?," October 15, 2007
"Oxford Spies on Students through Facebook," July 18, 2007
"ACLU Urges UCF to Abandon ‘Free Speech Zones’," January 29, 2007
"FIRE Condemns UCF’s Shrinking Speech Zones," January 25, 2007
"Facebook and the Campus Communication Explosion," January 12, 2007
"Emmett Hogan on 2006: The More Things Change...?," January 5, 2007
"Zoning Out Free Speech at Joliet Junior College," January 4, 2007
"‘Orlando Sentinel’ Covers Free Speech Zone Controversy at UCF," December 19, 2006
"Torch Reader Exposes UCF's Hypocrisy, Part II," December 8, 2006
"Torch Reader Exposes UCF’s Hypocrisy," December 6, 2006
"When It Restricts Free Speech to a Small Area, It’s a “Free Speech Zone”," December 5, 2006
"University of Central Florida Upholds ‘Free Speech Zone’ Policy," December 4, 2006
"Florida Readers: Watch WKMG-TV Local 6 Tonight at 6PM," November 10, 2006
"The Good, the Bad, and the Just Plain Silly," October 18, 2006
"More on MySpace and Facebook," May 31, 2006
"‘I Am All for Free Speech—But I Draw the Line at People Making Fun of Me!’," May 30, 2006
"Internet Expression in Jeopardy: MySpace Users Beware," May 24, 2006
"Victory for Internet Expression at UCF," March 6, 2006