Craven Community College
Location: New Bern, North Carolina
Website: http://www.cravencc.edu
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Federal Circuit: 4th Circuit
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Craven Community College: Attempt to Establish Administrative Control over Student Newspaper
March 21, 2005
Shortly after a student newspaper introduced a sex column, the administration announced a policy of prior of review for the paper. FIRE and the Student Press Law Center protested this unconstitutional policy. The administration then retracted its proposed policy and affirmed the First Amendment rights of student journalists on its campus.
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Red Light Policies
Sexual and Other Unlawful Harassment Policy 09-10
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies, Statement
Examples of sexual conduct prohibited by this policy include the following:
Last updated: December 15, 2013
* sexual flirtations or comments
* touching of a sexual nature
* graffiti of a sexual nature
* displaying or distributing of sexually explicit objects, pictures, and written materials
* sexual gestures
* sexual or "dirty" jokes
* talking about one's sexual activity in front of others ....
Sexual and Other Unlawful Harassment Policy 09-10
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies, Statement
Other unlawful harassment involving an employee or student may consist of verbal or physical conduct that denigrates or shows hostility or aversion toward an individual because of his or her race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, disability, or other legally protected status, or that of his or her relatives, friends, or associates, and has the purpose or effect of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working or educational environment; has the purpose or effect of interfering unreasonably with an individual's work or academic performance; or otherwise adversely affects an individual's employment or educational opportunities.
Last updated: December 15, 2013Student Code of Conduct and Disciplinary Policy 09-10
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies, Statement
[T]he following misconduct, on college premises or off the premises at college-sponsored activities, is subject to disciplinary action:
Last updated: December 15, 2013
1. Physical, psychological, or verbal abuse, threats, intimidation, harassment, coercion and/or conduct, which threatens or endangers the health or safety of any person ....
Academic Freedom 09-10
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression, Statement
Institutions of higher education are conducted for the common good and not to further the interest of either the individual teacher or the institution as a whole. The common good depends upon the free search for truth and its free exposition. An educated citizenry is the key to the continual improvement of society.
Last updated: October 28, 2013
Acceptable Use Policy and Procedures
Speech Code Category: Other Speech Codes, Statement
The creation or transmission of any offensive, obscene, or indecent images, data, or other material is not permitted.
Last updated: October 28, 2013Academic Freedom 06-07
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression, Statement
Academic freedom is essential to these purposes and applies to both teaching and research. Freedom in research is fundamental to the advancement of truth. Academic freedom in its teaching aspect is fundamental for the protection of the rights of the teacher in teaching and of the student to freedom in learning. It is essential to foster a spirit of inquiry within the institution where ideas may be examined in an atmosphere of freedom and confidence. Along with academic freedom comes responsibility.
Last updated: October 28, 2013Campus Access and Facility Use Policy 06-07
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression, Statement
The purpose of this Campus Access and Facility Use Policy is to provide information to employees, students, and members of the public about the College's means of protecting freedom of speech and association in those areas of College premises that are open to public expression, in a manner that is consistent with the College's goal of providing educational opportunities in an environment that is conducive to learning.
Last updated: October 28, 2013
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Out of the briar patch
July 19, 2005
Sex isn’t Scott Ralls’ problem anymore. It’s been a problem for the previous four months. Ralls is president of Craven Community College in New Bern, where in March a column offering tips on how to “jolt tired sex lives” was published in the campus newspaper, to the dismay of some readers. But Ralls expects the sex problem to end this week — whereupon he can tend to more typical campus needs, such as making sure there’s not enough parking or seeing that political correctness is rigidly enforced. Note to Ralls: I’m teasing, Scott. I tease because I love. Actually, I […]
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Journalism Association Condemns Press Freedom Violations
August 16, 2006
Yesterday, the Student Press Law Center (SPLC) reported the August 4 decision by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) to censure a community college in New Jersey for violating freedom of the press. Ocean Community College (OCC) has already been censured by the College Media Advisers, Inc. (CMA), a national organization that advocates for best practices among college media outlets. According to the SPLC, the AEJMC passed the resolution of censure following the OCC Board of Trustees’ December decision not to renew student newspaper advisor Karen Bosley’s contract. Bosley’s “offense” was allowing the newspaper to print […]
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Liberty in the Balance in North Carolina
February 1, 2006
The number of battles FIRE has had to fight in North Carolina is staggering. Even before our recent (and victorious) headline-grabbing case at UNC Greensboro, we have defended embattled professors at UNC Wilmington, Shaw University, Forsyth Technical Community College, and Duke University; two Christian groups at UNC Chapel Hill; a student newspaper under attack at Craven Community College; and red-light speech codes across the state. The place clearly needs help, and that is exactly what FIRE is trying to give it. Last month, we (along with the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy) released the landmark Report on […]
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Censorship is Everybody’s Problem
December 29, 2005
FIRE’s press release from yesterday details some of the cases that made 2005 FIRE’s busiest year ever. If 2005 made anything clear, it is that no student, regardless of his or her views, is safe from censorship on today’s college and university campuses. This year, we intervened on behalf of students censored for expressing viewpoints spanning the political spectrum: Seminole Community College in Florida refused to allow a student to distribute literature from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. After FIRE intervened, the college changed course and allowed the student to distribute her literature. Northeastern Illinois University decided to […]
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Victory for Press Freedom at Craven Community College
June 22, 2005
NEW BERN, N.C., June 22, 2005—In a victory for freedom of the student press, North Carolina’s Craven Community College has agreed to respect the independence of its student newspaper, The Communicator. Reacting to controversy over a short-lived sex column, Craven had initially (and erroneously) claimed the college was “not authorized to provide its students an independent and open forum,” and had been considering granting prior editorial review of the paper to college administrators. But thanks to protests from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and the Student Press Law Center (SPLC), Craven now affirms its students’ First Amendment […]
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