Indiana University – Kokomo

Location: Kokomo, Indiana
Website: http://www.iuk.edu
Type: Public
Federal Circuit: 7th Circuit

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Speech Code Rating

Indiana University – Kokomo has been given the speech code rating Yellow. Yellow light colleges and universities are those institutions with at least one ambiguous policy that too easily encourages administrative abuse and arbitrary application. Read more here.

At present, FIRE has not been involved in any cases at this school.
Yellow Light Policies

  • Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct: Student Rights- Right to Freedom from Harassment

    Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
    Last updated: June 28, 2018

    Discriminatory harassment is defined as conduct that targets an individual based upon age, color, religion, disability, race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or veteran’s status and that adversely affects a term or condition of an individual’s education, housing, or participation in a university activity; or has the purpose or effect of unreasonably creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment for academic pursuits, housing, or participation in university activities.

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  • Policy UA-03: Sexual Misconduct

    Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
    Last updated: June 28, 2018

    Sexual harassment is unwelcome conduct or behavior of a sexual nature. Sexual harassment includes sexual violence (see definition). Both violent and non-violent sexual harassment is prohibited. Sexual harassment can include unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal, nonverbal, written, electronic (e.g. by e-mail, text, social media, etc.), or physical conduct of a sexual nature. Sexual harassment occurs when: …  such conduct is sufficiently severe, pervasive or persistent to limit or deny a person’s ability to participate in or benefit from the University’s educational programs or affects employment, creating a hostile environment.

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  • Student Incident Reporting

    Speech Code Category: Policies on Bias and Hate Speech
    Last updated: July 9, 2018

    Understand what incidents to report

    Trust your best judgment. If you believe a student’s safety, body, beliefs, or rights have been violated, report it.

    Read the following definitions to know how to identify incidents.

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    Harassment

    A form of discriminatory behavior consisting of physical or verbal conduct that is directed at an individual or group because of their age, ancestry, color, disability or handicap, national origin, race, religious creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, or veteran status.

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    Hate Incident

    An offense motivate by hostility or prejudice base on a disability or handicap, national origin, race, religious creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, or veteran status.

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  • Sexual Harassment Policy

    Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
    Last updated: June 28, 2018

    In accordance with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines, the “IUK Sexual Harassment Policy” defines sexual harassment as follows:

    Unwelcome sexual advances–requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature–constitute sexual harassment when: … Such conduct has the effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work or academic performance or creating, an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working, or learning environment.

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    Many types of conduct, stemming, from unwanted sexual attention, may constitute sexual harassment. The following are some illustrations for the ran-e [sic] of behaviors characteristic of sexual harassment. … Offensive gender-based personal remarks, including verbal, written, graphic, computer generated or e-mail communications; … Patterns of conduct causing the person to whom it is directed to feel humiliated, demeaned or uncomfortable, including remarks of a sexual nature about a person’s clothing or body, remarks about sexual activity, or speculations about previous sexual experience.

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  • Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct: Purpose of the Code

    Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
    Last updated: June 28, 2018

    A student who accepts admission to Indiana University agrees to: … behave in a manner that is respectful of the dignity of others, treating others with civility and understanding …

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  • Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct: Responsibilities

    Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
    Last updated: June 28, 2018

    Verbal abuse of another person, including the following:

    1. An express or implied threat to:
      1. Interfere with an individual’s personal safety, academic efforts, employment, or participation in university-sponsored activities and that under the circumstances causes the person to have a reasonable apprehension that such harm is about to occur; or
      2. Injure that person, or damage his or her property; or
    2. “Fighting words” that are spoken face-to-face as a personal insult to the listener or listeners in personally abusive language inherently likely to provoke a violent reaction by the listener or listeners to the speaker.

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Green Light Policies

  • Critics say new Policies can Stifle Free Speech

    April 9, 2016

    By Chris Quintana at Albuquerque Journal  University of New Mexico officials say the recent increase in federal Title IX reports shows more people are aware of the issue of sexual discrimination and violence, but free speech advocates say that complying with Title IX can stifle free speech protected by the First Amendment… Read more here.

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At present, FIRE does not maintain information on this school's policies.