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North Carolina Central University
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Department of Residential Life: Community Living Standards- Harassment
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: August 12, 2020Harassment, 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. … Sexual harassment is defined in North Carolin... Read MoreDepartment of Residential Life: Community Living Standards- Posting Policy
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Posting and Distribution Policies
Last updated: August 12, 2020Materials deemed harassing, harmful to the community, or promoting at risk behavior or conduct that violates any University policies, regulations, rules and/or federal or state will not be approved for posting. Read MorePOL 40.13.1: Student Code of Conduct- Bullying/Cyberbullying
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Bullying Policies
Last updated: August 12, 2020Bullying/Cyberbullying. Any pattern of gestures or written, electronic or verbal communications, behaviors, or any physical act or any threatening communication that is threatening or intimidating which (1) places a person in actual and reasonable fear of harm to his/her person or damage to his/her property, or (ii)... Read MorePOL 40.13.1: Student Code of Conduct- Harassment
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: August 12, 2020Harassment. 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... Read MorePOL 40.13.1: Student Code of Conduct- Sexual Harassment
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: August 12, 20208.1.27 Sexual Harassment. Sexual harassment comes in several forms and includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct or communication of a sexual nature when: (i) submission to or rejection of such conduct or communication is a term or condition of education/empl... Read MoreDepartment of Residential Life: Community Living Standards- Decorations
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Posting and Distribution Policies
Last updated: August 12, 2020When decorating exterior room doors or common areas, the Department of Residential Life requires that residents avoid posting materials that would constitute harassment or discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran’s status, sexual orientation, gend... Read MoreREG 70.00.4: Responsible Use Regulation
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Last updated: August 12, 20206.11 Use of electronic mail messages or Web pages that constitute invasion of privacy, harassment, defamation, threats, intimidation, or discrimination based on race, sex, national origin, disability, age, religion, or sexual orientation. 6.12 Unacceptable use of email and personal use of NCCU email. 6.12.1 NCCU use... Read MorePOL 80.07.1: Sexual Misconduct Policy
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: August 12, 20203.1.6 Hostile environment sexual harassment occurs when unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature is so severe, persistent, or pervasive that it affects a student’s ability to participate in or benefit from an education program or activity, or creates an intimidating, threatening, or abusive educational environment... Read More
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… Read more
REPORT: North Carolina is home to some of America’s best colleges for free speech
September 24, 2018
Eight colleges in North Carolina earn FIRE’s highest rating for free speech — more than in any other state — but 17 still maintain policies that substantially restrict student expression. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24, 2018 — A new report finds that North Carolina’s colleges and universities lead the way nationally for protecting student free speech. The… Read more
UNC Greensboro earns North Carolina’s second ‘green light’ rating for free speech in a month
May 11, 2017
Both UNC Greensboro and North Carolina Central University now earn a ‘green light’ rating from FIRE, meaning the institutions do not maintain any policies that imperil free speech. The state of North Carolina is home to four of 31 institutions nationwide with this distinction. GREENSBORO, N.C., May 11, 2017 — The University of North Carolina at… Read more
North Carolina Central University earns FIRE’s highest free speech rating
May 11, 2017
DURHAM, N.C., May 11, 2017 — North Carolina Central University has earned the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s highest, “green light” rating for its commitment to the First Amendment. In cooperation with FIRE, NCCU revised and eliminated speech codes to join an elite group of universities that maintain policies respecting the expressive rights of… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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