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Student Handbook: Equal Opportunity and Non-Discrimination in Employment and Education Policy
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: May 23, 2018Discriminatory harassment means verbal or physical conduct that is directed at an individual because of his or her protected class, and that is sufficiently severe, pervasive, or persistent so as to have the purpose or effect of creating a hostile work or educational environment. As required by law, Minnesota State ... Read MoreStudent Handbook: Student Code of Conduct
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: May 23, 2018Physical abuse, verbal abuse, threats, or harassment of a person including but not limited to stalking, defamation, intimidation or harassment through other persons, or use of electronic or other communication devices such as video, computers or telephones. Read MoreStudent Handbook: Political Activity
Speech Code Category: Other Speech Codes
Last updated: May 23, 2018The purpose of this policy is to encourage the use of available public areas in university facilities for political activity. These activities must be scheduled with the appropriate director of the building or area involved. … Political activity means action by a person or persons promoting the candidacy of an... Read MoreStudent Handbook: Peaceful Demonstrations and Protests
Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies
Last updated: May 23, 2018Sponsors of demonstrations or protests must secure a registration permit from the Director of Student Union or designee at least 24 hours prior to the scheduled activity. Peaceful demonstrations and protests so registered will be permitted in the following nonreserve areas: non-academic, public hallways and lounges;... Read MoreMinnesota State Colleges and Universities: Procedure 5.22.1, Acceptable Use of Computers and Information Technology Resources
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Last updated: May 23, 2018Users must not engage in inappropriate uses, including: … e. Storage, display, transmission, or intentional or solicited receipt of material that is or may be reasonably regarded as obscene, sexually explicit, or pornographic, including any depiction, photograph, audio recording, video or written word, except ... Read MoreStudent Handbook: Student Code of Conduct
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: May 23, 2018Statement of Responsible Behavior. … Students will speak and listen to others with care, seeking personal understanding and maintaining respect and civility. Read More
Minnesota’s Bemidji State Axes ‘Speech Code of the Month,’ Sheds ‘Red Light’ Rating
June 20, 2013
This press release was sent to local Minnesota media outlets this afternoon: MINNEAPOLIS, June 20, 2013—Free speech is safer today at Bemidji State University (BSU), which has revised a policy identified by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a free-speech watchdog group, as violating the First Amendment. The revisions came after FIRE named… Read more
Bemidji State Revises ‘Speech Code of the Month,’ Sheds ‘Red Light’ Rating
June 18, 2013
On June 5, FIRE announced that Minnesota’s Bemidji State University was our June 2013 Speech Code of the Month for language in its student conduct code prohibiting "offensive" speech. Happily, less than a week later, Bemidji State tweeted at FIRE a notification that it had revised the objectionable language in its code. When we named… Read more
Speech Code of the Month: Bemidji State University
June 5, 2013
FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for June 2013: Bemidji State University in Minnesota. Bemidji State’s Student Code of Conduct prohibits: engaging in any offensive, obscene or abusive language, or in boisterous or noisy conduct reasonably tending to arouse alarm, resentment, or anger in others on University-owned or controlled property or at University… Read more
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