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California State University – Dominguez Hills
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University Housing: Important Policies & Disclosures- University Housing Policies and Regulations
Speech Code Rating: Red
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: August 27, 2021Harassment includes, but is not limited to, verbal harassment (e.g., epithets, derogatory comments, or slurs), physical harassment (e.g., assault, impeding or blocking movement, or any physical interference with normal work or movement), and visual forms of harassment (e.g., derogatory posters, cartoons, drawings, s... Read MoreExecutive Order 1097: Systemwide Policy Prohibiting Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation Against Students
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: August 27, 2021Harassment means unwelcome conduct, based on the Complainant’s Protected Status, that is sufficiently severe, persistent or pervasive that its effect, whether or not intended, could be considered by a reasonable person in the shoes of the Complainant, and is in fact considered by the Complainant, as limiting her/his... Read MoreStudent Conduct Code Title 5, Article 2, Section 41301
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: August 27, 2021Students are expected to be good citizens and to engage in responsible behaviors that reflect well upon their university, to be civil to one another and to others in the campus community, and contribute positively to student and university life. Read MoreStudent Conduct Code Title 5, Article 2, Section 41301
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Last updated: August 27, 2021Misuse of computer facilities or resources, including: … Use of computing facilities and resources to send obscene or intimidating and abusive messages. Read MoreUse of Information Technology Services and Resources and Electronic Mail Systems or Services
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Last updated: August 27, 2021Misuse includes, but is not limited to intentionally and knowingly, doing the following … Using electronic communications to harass or threaten users in such a way as to create an atmosphere that unreasonably interferes with the education or employment experience. … Using the University’s electronic mail... Read MoreUniversity Housing: Important Policies & Disclosures- University Housing Policies and Regulations
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: August 27, 2021Lewd, indecent or obscene behaviors, whether through conduct or expression, which are not civil or respectful and which breach the peace within or around the residential facilities, or at any UHS-related function are not permitted. Read MoreImportant Campus Policies: Posting Policy
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Posting and Distribution Policies
Last updated: August 27, 2021The “POSTING VALID THRU____” stamp available through the Office of Student Life must be clearly visible on the face of the posting. … Materials to be distributed or posted must list all the sponsoring organizations. … All materials to be distributed or posted must be identified with name and phone number... Read MoreImportant Campus Policies: Designated Outdoor Programming Space Policy
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies
Last updated: August 27, 2021Location Sculpture Garden – Lawn area on west side of the Loker University Student Union and between LaCorte Hall and the University Theater. Scheduling 1. Spontaneous use of the space is allowed for non-amplified activity. The activity must not interfere with events scheduled for the area and no amplified sou... Read MoreUniversity Housing: Important Policies & Disclosures- University Housing Policies and Regulations
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: August 27, 2021Threats, malicious pranks and abusive name calling by any member of the community or guest toward an individual or group that seriously threatens or alarms a person or group is prohibited. Causing physical or mental harm, intimidation, and/or the apprehension of physical or verbal harm to any person or self, through... Read MoreExecutive Order 1097: Systemwide Policy Prohibiting Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation Against Students- Addendum B
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: August 27, 2021Sexual Harassment means conduct on the basis of Sex that satisfies one or more of the following: … Unwelcome conduct determined by a reasonable person to be so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it effectively denies a person equal access to an Education Program or Activity. Read MoreImportant Campus Policies: Freedom of Speech- Time, Place, and Manner Restrictions
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies
Last updated: August 27, 2021TIME: Daily, 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. However, current CSU Dominguez Hills registered students, student clubs/organizations, staff, and faculty, may engage in freedom of expression activities that require more flexibility and options. PLACE: Freedom of expression activities may take place on campus with the following excep... Read More
Two universities stop censorial outrage mobs dead in their tracks
February 7, 2018
Online outrage mobs are all the rage recently, standing at the ready to inundate colleges and universities with demands to punish a student or professor the moment they say something that offends others. Unfortunately, administrators too often capitulate, abandoning the principles of free speech that they are bound, either legally or by virtue of the… Read more