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North Dakota State University
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NDSU Policy Manual: Section 601- Code of Student Conduct, Intimidation
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: March 5, 2020Conduct in any form that involves an expressed or implied threat to an individual’s personal safety, safety of property, academic efforts, employment, or participation in University sponsored activities is prohibited. Read MoreNDSU Bias Report Form
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Policies on Bias and Hate Speech
Last updated: March 10, 2020NDSU is committed to fostering a safe, respectful, and inclusive environment for the benefit of our entire campus community. NDSU’s bias reporting system provides NDSU students, staff, and faculty with an avenue to report incidents of bias, bigotry, or hate that occur on our campus or in off-campus settings that imp... Read MoreNDSU Policy Manual: Section 156- Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation Complaint Procedures
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: March 10, 2020Harassment – A form of discrimination; unwelcome oral, written, graphic, or physical conduct, based on one or more of the protected classes (see 2.1.1) of an individual (or group), that is sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive so as to unreasonably interfere with their education, employment, or other p... Read MoreNDSU Policy Manual: Section 162- Sexual and Gender-based Harassment, Sexual Misconduct, and Title IX Policy
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: March 5, 2020Sexual Harassment – Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other unwanted conduct of a sexual nature, whether verbal, written, graphic, physical or otherwise, when: … Such conduct is sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive that it unreasonably interferes with, limits, or deprives an in... Read MoreNDSU Policy Manual: Section 601- Code of Student Conduct, Other Acts of Harassment
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: March 5, 2020Any unwelcome action or any series of unwelcome actions that interfere with an individual’s academic efforts, employment, personal safety, or participation in University sponsored cocurricular activities is prohibited. Read MoreNDSU Policy Manual: Section 154- Freedom of Speech, Expression, and Assembly
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies
Last updated: March 10, 2020Open Public Forums – The generally accessible, open, outdoor areas of NDSU’s campus are considered open forums for free speech, subject to reasonable and constitutional time, place, and manner restrictions. If a group desires to utilize amplified sound or have exclusive use of an Open Public Forum, NDSU requir... Read MoreNDSU Policy Manual: Section 154- Freedom of Speech, Expression, and Assembly
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: March 10, 2020North Dakota State University recognizes and supports the fundamental right of its students and others to free speech and expression under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and the North Dakota Constitution. NDSU values and encourages the free exchange of ideas while maintaining the safety of the... Read More
Records reveal North Dakota State University’s responses to reports of ‘bias’
March 30, 2017
Christian student groups were often reported to administrators, as were comments by a professor that a student perceived to be anti-Christian. Some university records demonstrated a willingness to defend First Amendment principles, yet others indicate that administrators were willing to intervene and investigate clearly protected political and religious speech. University gave FIRE “the records” we… Read more
MySpace Has Administrators in a Frenzy
June 12, 2006
FIRE has been reporting the continued crackdown on students’ expression on Internet sites like MySpace and Facebook. While these sites have given students a new forum to express themselves and communicate with friends, they have also opened a new medium for administrative overview of students’ personal opinions and activities. When the message boards contain… Read more
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