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California State University – San Marcos
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Standards for Student Conduct
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Last updated: July 30, 2019Use of computing facilities and resources to send obscene or intimidating and abusive messages. Read MoreStandards for Student Conduct
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: July 30, 2019Students 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 MoreExecutive Order 1097: Systemwide Policy Prohibiting Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation Against Students
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: July 30, 2019Sexual Harassment, a form of Sex Discrimination, is unwelcome verbal, nonverbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that includes, but is not limited to Sexual Violence, sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and indecent exposure where: a. Submission to, or rejection of, the conduct is explicitly or implic... Read MorePublic Assembly
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies
Last updated: July 30, 2019Scheduling procedures do not apply to spontaneous events, or events by individuals or groups who wish to use the campus grounds to express viewpoints. Although it is recommended and preferred that individuals and groups follow the scheduling protocols, it is not required; however, such events must follow all other t... Read MoreAcceptable Use of Information Technology Resources
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Last updated: July 30, 2019Users shall not use CSUSM technology resources for purposes that are inconsistent, incompatible, violate or are in conflict with federal, state laws, as well as campus and CSU regulations and policies. Violations may include but are not limited to harassment, defamation, making threats, committing computer-related ... Read More
Federal court holds California State University, San Marcos violated pro-life group’s First Amendment rights in funding denials
August 15, 2019
On Tuesday, a federal court ruled in favor of a chapter of a pro-life organization, Students for Life, at California State University, San Marcos, with respect to some challenges it brought against the public university’s distribution of student fees. The organization sought funding for a pro-life speaker through three different funding mechanisms established through the… Read more
ACLU-SD Calls on OCR Not to Investigate Free Speech at CSU-San Marcos
November 30, 2011
Yesterday we wrote about our fight for free speech at California State University-San Marcos (CSUSM), where several students were investigated for their possible involvement with the satirical campus magazine The Koala. While CSUSM has now suspended all investigations following FIRE’s intervention, CSUSM faces the prospect of an investigation by the federal Department of Education’s Office… Read more
California State University-San Marcos Suspends Investigation of Students over Protected Speech in Humor Magazine ‘The Koala’
November 29, 2011
Under pressure from FIRE and the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties (ACLU-SD), California State University–San Marcos (CSUSM) has suspended its investigation of several students who might be affiliated with anonymous humor magazine The Koala. Today, in the face of a Title IX complaint about The Koala that the federal Department of Education’s Office for Civil… Read more
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