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Arkansas State University
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Student Handbook: Appropriate Use of Information & Technology Resources
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Last updated: September 7, 2020Conduct that violates this policy includes, but is not limited to, the activities in the following list: … Transmitting or reproducing materials that are slanderous or defamatory in nature or that otherwise violate existing laws or university regulations. Initiating or propagating electronic chain letters. In... Read MoreStudent Handbook: Campus Signs, Posters & Promotional Material Policy
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Posting and Distribution Policies
Last updated: September 7, 20201. All notices and printed materials must carry the name of the organization responsible for distribution. Organizations are responsible for notices or printed materials bearing the names of individuals identified thereon as officers or members of the organization. … 7. Groups desiring to place flyers on autom... Read MoreAffirmative Action: Other Discriminatory Offenses
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Bullying Policies
Last updated: September 7, 2020Bullying, defined as repeated and/or severe aggressive behavior likely to intimidate or intentionally hurt, control or diminish another person, physically or mentally (that is not speech or conduct otherwise protected by the 1st Amendment). Read MoreStudent Handbook: Standards of Student Conduct
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 7, 2020Physical abuse, verbal abuse, threats, intimidation, coercion and/or other conduct which threatens or endangers the health or safety of self or others … Read MoreStudent Handbook: Standards of Student Conduct
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 7, 2020Unwelcome gender-based verbal or physical conduct and occurs when: … Such conduct is severe, pervasive, and objectionably offensive such that it has the effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s education or work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive university environment. Read MoreStudent Handbook: Standards of Student Conduct- Preamble
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: September 7, 2020The following principles are part of the collective expectation of the members of this community relative to personal conduct. Ethical Behavior — The pursuit of a higher education is a privilege. Associated with that privilege is an obligation to aspire to a set of principles and values that demonstrate a commitment... Read MoreStudent Handbook: Residence Life- Decorations
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Posting and Distribution Policies
Last updated: September 7, 2020The following decorations are prohibited: … Displaying material that is generally accepted as offensive or that is biased against any person or groups so it is visible from outside a student residence (such as in windows or on doors). Read MoreFreedom of Expression Operating Procedure
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies
Last updated: September 7, 2020Expressive activities are allowed on all outdoor areas of campus subject to the reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions set forth in this Operating Procedure as well as all applicable state and federal laws. The campus shall not create free speech zones or other designated outdoor areas of campus outside of ... Read MoreStudent Handbook: Standards of Student Conduct
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: September 7, 2020Disrupting the regular or normal functions of the Arkansas State University community, including behavior which breaches the peace, limits the safety or violates the rights of others. Read MoreStudent Handbook: Academic Rights and Responsibilities
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: September 7, 2020The basic necessity for achievement of these purposes is freedom of expression and assembly. Without this freedom, effective testing of ideas cease and teaching, learning and research are rendered ineffective. … The university, in its relationship to each student, recognizes the constitutional rights of freedo... Read MoreStudent Handbook: Standards of Student Conduct- Harassment
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 7, 2020Any form of conduct (written, verbal, physical, graphic, or electronic) that is 1) unwanted; 2) directed towards an individual or group of people; and 3) so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that a reasonable person with the same characteristics of the of the victim would be adversely affected to a degree... Read More
First Amendment lawsuit against Arkansas State University to proceed
April 4, 2018
We’ve been writing about free speech zones and the dangers they pose to students’ expressive rights for more than a decade. Free speech zones remain a constant thorn in the side of student activists: this year our Spotlight on Speech Codes found that about 1 in 10 of the schools surveyed for the report maintain… Read more
Speech Code of the Month: Arkansas State University
August 4, 2014
FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for August 2014: Arkansas State University.
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