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Millersville University of Pennsylvania
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Discrimination and Harassment Policy and Complaint Procedures
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: October 4, 2021Harassment: whether verbal, physical, or visual, that is based on any of the protected classes is discriminatory. This includes harassing conduct affecting job benefits, interfering unreasonably with an individual’s work performance, or creating what a reasonable person would consider to be intimidating, hosti... Read MorePolicies for Administration: Posting and Chalking Policy
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Posting and Distribution Policies
Last updated: October 4, 2021A Third Party is defined as any individual, group or entity that is not a MU recognized student organization, on campus departments or unit. … Requests by any student club/organization to post materials on campus must be made to the Department of Campus Life for all on- and off- campus events. For all on-campu... Read MoreStudent Conduct & Community Standards Handbook: Harassing conduct
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: October 4, 2021Engaging in conduct that is harassing, intimidating or threatening, or engaging in conduct that constitutes unlawful discrimination based on another person’s race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, creed, age, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, or veteran status or disability. This incl... Read MoreStudent Affairs and Enrollment Management: Free Speech Issues
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: October 4, 2021As an academic community, Millersville University is committed to maintaining a campus environment that fosters the free exchange of diverse ideas and allows individuals to express their viewpoints in a variety of ways. The University understands the value that diversity brings to the educational experience and to t... Read MoreSexual Misconduct
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: October 4, 20219. Regulatory Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment – Unwelcome conduct, on the basis of sex, that a reasonable person would determine is so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it effectively denies a person equal access to the University’s Education Program or Activity. 10. Non-Regulatory Hostil... Read More
Pennsylvania House of Representatives Select Committee on Student Academic Freedom
September 19, 2005
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives brought together a committee to examine allegations that Pennsylvania’s public universities were plagued by liberal ideology and indoctrination. David A. French, at the time president of FIRE, served as a legal adviser to the panel. FIRE released FIRE Report on the First Amendment Responsibilities of Pennsylvania State-Funded Colleges and Universities,… Read more
Millersville University Standing Strong for Free Speech for Bill Ayers
February 18, 2009
Congratulations to Millersville University (MU) for promising to stand strong against protesters who want MU to disinvite controversial professor William Ayers from a lecture scheduled for March 19. Ayers became controversial during the 2008 presidential election and, since then, has been disinvited from University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) and Georgia Southern University (GSU) under very questionable… Read more
Oxford Spies on Students through Facebook
July 18, 2007
The United Kingdom appears to be rapidly turning into a place where Big Brother is not just a character in a book, or a reality TV show, but a reality for everyone. Britain is well-known for its abundance of closed-circuit TV cameras that record everyone walking down the streets, all the time—and sometimes, the cameras… Read more
Student Denied Degree Due to MySpace Picture; Litigation Commenced
April 30, 2007
The battle between students and university administrators over online privacy has reached a new—though sadly predictable—level of ludicrousness. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Stacy Snyder, a 27-year-old student at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, was denied her education degree (and the accompanying teaching certificate) after student-teacher advisors and university officials discovered an “unprofessional” picture of… Read more