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Mount Holyoke College
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Office of Residential Life Policies and Procedures: Bias-Related Incidents
Speech Code Rating: Red
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: August 23, 2021Harassment based on race, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender/gender expression, religion, age, or disability is not tolerated in the residence halls. Such behavior includes unwelcome slurs, jokes, graphic or written materials, and all other verbal or physical actions related to an individual&... Read MoreProtocols for Bias Incidents and Hate Crimes
Speech Code Rating: Red
Speech Code Category: Policies on Bias and Hate Speech
Last updated: August 23, 2021A bias incident at Mount Holyoke is an act of bigotry, harassment, or intimidation that occurs on the Mount Holyoke College campus that is directed at a member or group of the Mount Holyoke community because of that individual’s or group’s actual or perceived age, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender ... Read MoreGender-Based and Sexual Misconduct: Gender-Based and Sexual Misconduct
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: August 23, 2021Sex based harassment is unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature, as determined by a reasonable person that is severe, pervasive or objectively offensive that it effectively denies a person equal access to the College’s education program or activity. Sexual harassment includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sex... Read MoreGender-Based and Sexual Misconduct: Title IX Misconduct
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: August 23, 2021Sexual Harassment: unwelcome conduct, determined by a reasonable person, to be so severe, and pervasive, and, objectively offensive, that it effectively denies a person equal access to the College’s education program or activity. Read MoreStudent Handbook: Community Responsibility
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: August 23, 2021The very act of choosing to become a member of the Mount Holyoke community implies a commitment to free inquiry, a search for understanding as central to the liberal arts education, and a willingness to share in the responsibility for maintaining an environment in which these goals may be attained. Read MoreStudent Handbook: The Mount Holyoke Community
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: August 23, 2021Mount Holyoke College believes in the right, indeed the necessity, of free inquiry and free expression for every member of the College community. Read More
Professor who fled Egypt over censorship at American University in Cairo: ‘There’s still an accounting that needs to take place’
September 6, 2019
Professor Adam Duker puts his faith in faith. Specifically, the transformative power of teaching world religions to students who’ve never been exposed to them. Hired in 2016 as the endowed Abdulhabi H. Taher Chair of Comparative Religions at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, Duker had the unique task of building the first religious studies… Read more
September 2019 Speech Code of the Month: Mount Holyoke College
September 3, 2019
Unfortunately, bias incident reporting policies are common at colleges and universities across the country, but they’re not all made alike — there’s a wide range in how schools define bias incidents, as well as how they say they’ll respond to them. Mount Holyoke College, a private liberal arts school in Massachusetts, misses the mark… Read more