California Advisory Committee to U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Hears FIRE Testimony

April 29, 2010

FIRE President Greg Lukianoff is testifying today before the California Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights about unconstitutional discriminatory harassment policies at colleges and universities across California. The entire University of California (UC) System has already reformed its policies, seemingly in response to FIRE’s concerns, but Greg will testify that many colleges and universities in the state (including several UC campuses) still have discriminatory harassment policies that violate the rights of hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of students and faculty members. On August 1, 2009, FIRE issued a memo to the Advisory Committee describing the problem in detail. […]