Valdosta State University
Location: Valdosta, GA 31698
Website: http://www.valdosta.edu
Speech Code Rating
Valdosta State University has been given a speech code rating of Red. You may read more about this institution's speech codes at this page.
- Valdosta State University: Student Expelled for Peacefully Protesting Parking Garages
- Valdosta State University: Freedom of Expression on Campus Limited to Unconstitutional Free Speech Zone
FIRE Cases at Valdosta State University
- The campus culture wars in two videos, The Huffington Post, April 21, 2009
- Order issued in lawsuit, The Valdosta Daily Times, November 24, 2008
- Free Speech Policy, WCTV Valdosta, September 18, 2008
- Policy Changed: VSU reveals new free expression rule; FIRE backs off, The Spectator, September 17, 2008
- Schools struggle with dark writings, The Wall Street Journal, May 20, 2008
- Georgia Regents reverse student’s expulsion from Valdosta State U., The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 18, 2008
- Back to school for outspoken student, Inside Higher Ed, January 18, 2008
- Georgia Regents reverse student’s expulsion from Valdosta State U., The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 18, 2008
- Expulsion for protest unfair, The Red and Black, January 17, 2008
- Expulsion reversed, The Valdosta Daily Times, January 17, 2008
- Board of Regents reverses VSU expulsion, WALB News, January 17, 2008
- Valdosta State student sues after he's expelled, Athens Banner-Herald, January 12, 2008
- Former VSU student sues University, WALB News, January 11, 2008
Recent Media Coverage of Valdosta State University
- Changes in Leadership Give Red Alert Schools Golden Opportunity to Restore Free Speech, May 19, 2010
- Brief in Valdosta State Lawsuit Argues Why Administrators Should Be Personally Liable for Rights Violations, April 29, 2010
- Damning Reply Brief Filed with Federal District Court in Hayden Barnes’ Case, April 29, 2010
- Greg in ‘Huffington Post’ on the Campus Culture Wars, April 22, 2009
- Rights in the News: FIRE Issues Get the Lou Dobbs Treatment, March 13, 2009
- Obama: Silencers of Dissent Are on the Wrong Side of History, January 20, 2009
- FIRE Pens Open Letter to President Obama, January 20, 2009
- 2008 Highlights: FIRE Places Full-Page Ad in ‘U.S. News & World Report’ Calling Out ‘Red Alert’ Schools, December 31, 2008
- Questions Surround Proposed ‘Free Speech Zone’ at Northeastern Illinois University, December 19, 2008
- Stop Invoking Virginia Tech to Punish Protected Speech, November 24, 2008