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Location: Durham, North Carolina
Website: http://www.nccu.edu
Type: Public
Federal Circuit: 4th Circuit
North Carolina Central University has been given the speech code rating Red. A red light university has at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech. Read more here.
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University of North Carolina System: State of the First Amendment
January 10, 2006
FIRE teamed up with the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy to release the Report on the State of the First Amendment in the University of North Carolina System. The Report notes that UNC System’s many speech codes and illiberal restrictions on religious groups would likely not survive a legal challenge. It also reveals that “13 out of the 16 schools in the UNC System have at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech.”
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Red Light Policies
Department of Residential Life: Community Living Standards- Rights and Responsibilities
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: August 12, 2016The Department of Residential Life recognizes that students living in residential communities have certain responsibilities in their relationship to other community members and to their environment. These responsibilities include: … Avoid using the written or spoken word in a way that demeans, defames, offends, slanders, or discriminates.
Guide to On-Campus Living: Obscene Language
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: August 12, 2016Obscene conduct and public profanity will not be tolerated. Statements of intolerance and/or harassment due to race, ethnicity, sex, religion, disability, or sexual orientation may be subject to disciplinary action.
Guide to On-Campus Living: Window Decorations
Speech Code Category: Posting and Distribution Policies
Last updated: August 12, 2016If residents decorate their room windows, they should give consideration to the uniqueness of the University and the diverse population it serves. The Residential Life staff will contact residents regarding inappropriate or potentially offensive objects and decorations in the windows when such decorations are observed.
Department of Residential Life: Community Living Standards- Posting Policy
Speech Code Category: Posting and Distribution Policies
Last updated: August 12, 2016Materials deemed offensive, harmful to the community, or promoting at risk behavior will not be approved for posting.
Responsible Use of University Computing and Electronic Communication Resources Policy
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Last updated: August 12, 2016Violations of responsible use of University computing and electronic communication resources include, but are not limited to, the following: … Use of electronic mail messages or Web pages that constitute invasion of privacy, harassment, defamation, threats, intimidation, unwarranted annoyance or embarrassment, or discrimination based on race, sex, national origin, disability, age, religion, or sexual orientation.
Sexual Harassment Prevention Policy
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: August 12, 2016Sexual harassment is also defined as student-to-student or student-initiated deliberate, unsolicited, and unwelcomed verbal and/or physical conduct of a sexual nature, or with sexual implications. Unwelcomed sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature shall constitute sexual harassment when: … Such conduct has the purpose or effect of substantially interfering with an individual’s academic performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive academic environment.
Student Code of Conduct: Prohibited Conduct
Speech Code Category: Other Speech Codes
Last updated: August 12, 2016Behavior that is subject to disciplinary action under this Code includes: … (4) any other behavior that adversely affects the University or its educational mission.
Student Code of Conduct: Sexual Harassment
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: August 12, 2016Sexual harassment. Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that tends to create a hostile or offensive environment.
Department of Residential Life: Community Living Standards
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: August 12, 2016Harassment, defined as any physical force, violence, threat, intimidation, stalking, or other behavior that interferes with an individual’s personal safety, academic efforts, employment, or participation in University-sponsored activities, is strictly prohibited.
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Sexual harassment of students is further defined as follows:
Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature shall constitute sexual harassment when … Such conduct has the purpose or effect of substantially interfering with an individual’s academic performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive academic environment.
Student Code of Conduct: Harassment
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: August 12, 2016Harassment. Repeated, persistent, severe, or pervasive actions directed toward specific individual(s) with the intent or effect to harass, harm, or alarm, including attempted or threatened physical contact, or acts that create the reasonable apprehension of unwanted contact. Such acts may include but are not limited to face to face interactions, phone calls, text messages, and/or use of social media.
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How a ‘Campus Free Expression Act’ in North Carolina Actually Aims to Suppress Student Speech
March 25, 2016
By Alex Kotch at Alternet News came on March 7 that North Carolina’s Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Forest will propose the deceivingly named Campus Free Expression Act at the state legislature next month. The act instructs the University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors to craft a systemwide policy that would impose harsh penalties, including expulsion, on students, staff and faculty members who disrupt classes, public meetings or events… Read more here.
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The Problematic State of Free Speech at North Carolina Universities
July 29, 2016
There should be no place safer for free speech and academic freedom than a public university. After all, as state agents, they are legally—and morally—bound to respect their students’ constitutional rights. So why have many of the public universities in my home state of North Carolina egregiously violated the rights of their students? Why does Duke University, the private institution I attend, uphold the values of “freedom of inquiry and the free exchange of ideas,” while many of its nearby public counterparts fail to do so despite identical obligations? With the exception of Duke University and the University of North […]
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Speech Codes of the Year: 2005
December 29, 2005
An outrageous number of colleges and universities severely restrict their students’ expressive rights—so many that researching and analyzing these restrictions is my full-time job. As 2005 draws to a close, I would like to highlight just a few of the particularly outrageous (but, sadly, quite common) restrictions that I found in the course of my research this year. These institutions should be ashamed of themselves. Stevens Institute of Technology provides students with a laundry list of behaviors that constitute sexual harassment, including “sexist jokes,” “comments regarding a person’s attire,” “displaying or discussing materials pertaining to males or females in a […]
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