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Guidebook to Reed: Community Policies – Discriminatory Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Policy
Speech Code Rating: Red
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 6, 2021Discriminatory harassment is unwelcome verbal, written, visual, or physical conduct that is derogatory, insulting and/or intimidating and that is based on or motivated by an individual’s or group’s actual or perceived affiliation with protected classes or categories. … All instances of discriminatory harassmen... Read MoreReed College Computer User Agreement
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Last updated: September 6, 2021Some examples of prohibited uses are: … the transmission of obscene, abusive, harassing, or threatening messages; … Read MoreBias Incidents and Discriminatory Harassment Resource Guide
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Policies on Bias and Hate Speech
Last updated: September 6, 2021Reed College is a community governed by an honor principle and committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive living and learning environment (read Reed College’s Diversity Statement here). In such a community, all members have the right to work, learn, and live in an environment free of bias and discriminator... Read MoreGuidebook to Reed: College Organization – Living with the Honor Principle
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: September 6, 2021The most common formulation of the honor principle states that any action that causes unnecessary pain or discomfiture to any member of the Reed community, group within the community, or to the community as a whole is a violation of the honor principle. While most people would agree with this formulation, this is an... Read MoreGuidebook to Reed: Community Policies- Discriminatory Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Policy
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Bullying Policies
Last updated: September 6, 2021Other harassing conduct violates this policy if it is sufficiently severe, pervasive, or persistent that it either (1) denies, interferes with, or limits a person’s ability to participate in or benefit from the College’s programs or activities; or (2) creates a learning, working, or living environment that a reasona... Read MoreGuidebook to Reed: Community Policies – Dissent
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: September 6, 2021Reed College considers the right of free speech, and therefore that of dissent to be fundamental to its life as an academic community. The exercise of the right of dissent is not something to be grudgingly tolerated, but actively encouraged. Read MoreGuidebook to Reed: Community Policies – Publications and Public Occasions of Expression
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: September 6, 2021Publications, exhibitions, public lectures, and public performances under the sponsorship of the college or of recognized organizations within the Reed Community shall not be subject to institutional censorship. Publications supported wholly by Student Body funds, or by Student Body funds supplemented by revenues ex... Read MoreGuidebook to Reed: Community Policies – Public Speaking and Solicitation
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: September 6, 2021Reed College is committed to the principles of free inquiry and free expression, and this means that expressions of opinions that some people find abhorrent must at times be tolerated. Read MoreTitle IX Policy
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 6, 2021Sexual Harassment: Conduct on the basis of sex that satisfies one or more of the following: … Unwelcome conduct determined by a reasonable person to be so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it effectively denies a person equal access to Reed’s education program or activity; … Read More
With Details of Classroom Ban at Reed Unclear, Student Speech Will Be Chilled
March 20, 2015
Jeremiah True, a student at Reed College in Portland, has reported that he was banned from his Humanities 110 classroom by Professor Pancho Savery because of statements he made about rape culture that made others in the class uncomfortable. In particular, True said he challenged the controversial statistic that one in five college women are… Read more