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Student Handbook: Standards for Student Conduct- Unauthorized Use of College Computers 11-12
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Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies, Statement
Last updated: January 23, 2014Using any electronic mail or messaging system to send abusive, offensive, obscene, harassing, or otherwise inappropriate communications. Read MoreStudent Handbook: Harassment and Bias Incidents 11-12
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Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies, Statement
Last updated: January 23, 2014Sexual harassment is a form of unlawful discrimination and is defined to include unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. Read MoreStudent Handbook: Harassment and Bias Incidents 11-12
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Speech Code Category: Policies on Bias and Hate Speech, Statement
Last updated: January 23, 2014A bias incident is a threatened, attempted, or completed action that is motivated by bigotry and bias regarding a person’s real or perceived race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, or gender status. Example of these incidents include name calling, offensive language/acts, graffiti... Read MoreStudent Handbook: Standards for Student Conduct- Discourtesy to a Faculty or Staff Member 11-12
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Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility, Statement
Last updated: January 23, 2014Rudeness, profanity, insulting, and/or intimidating behavior on the part of a student when confronted by a faculty or staff member, including any member of the Residential Education staff, in the performance of duties. Read MoreStudent Handbook: Standards for Student Conduct- Harassment 11-12
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Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies, Statement
Last updated: January 23, 2014Inappropriate or disrespectful conduct or communication in any form, including, but not limited to harassment based on gender, race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. Harassment can occur electronically in email, blogs, text messages, and web pages such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc. For more information consul... Read MoreAbout Hiram: Statement of Core Values 11-12
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Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression, Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility, Statement
Last updated: January 23, 2014We foster an environment that encourages open inquiry. Read More
Hudson City Schools: Administrators, Police Investigate Hiram College Writing Class
September 22, 2021
In September 2021, administrators at an Ohio public high school “collected” copies of a textbook used in a college writing class open to seniors at the high school as part of Ohio’s “College Credit Plus” program. The town’s mayor claimed salacious writing prompts in the book — a handful of the 600 writing prompts in… Read more
Ohio high school seizes books, police investigate college course writing prompts
September 22, 2021
A public high school in Hudson, Ohio, has managed a remarkable feat: censoring a college course and — thanks to a mayor’s grandstanding and false claims that a book of writing prompts is “child pornography” — leading police and prosecutors to investigate the class. Today, a coalition of civil liberties organizations led by FIRE is… Read more
Hiram College: “Offensive” Anti-Police Statements Should Have Been Censored
November 5, 2015
When students make controversial statements, it’s all too common for college administrators to react with a promise to crack down on speech as a way to appease offended members of the campus community. This summer, Texas Christian University suspended a student after his tweets about ISIS and protests in Baltimore offended non-students on Tumblr. Soon… Read more