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Texas Southern University
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Manual of Administrative Policies and Procedures: 04.06.03- Computer Use Policy
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Last updated: April 22, 2021When communicating with others via the University computer system, ensure that communications reflect high ethical standards, mutual respect and civility. Read MoreStudent Code of Conduct: Student Code of Conduct Violations- Mental or Bodily Harm
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: April 22, 2021(a) Intentionally inflicting mental or bodily harm upon any person; (b) taking any action for the purpose of inflicting mental or bodily harm upon any person; (c) taking any reckless, but not accidental action from which mental or bodily harm could result to any person; (d) engaging in conduct (including, but not li... Read MoreManual of Administrative Policies and Procedures: 02.07.01- Sexual Misconduct Policy and Procedures
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: April 22, 2021This Policy prohibits Sexual Misconduct committed by or against a student, faculty, staff, or Third Parties. … Sexual harassment means unwelcome, sex-based verbal or physical conduct that: … In the education context, is sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive that the conduct interferes with a stud... Read MoreManual of Administrative Policies and Procedures: 5.01.01- Freedom of Expression
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies
Last updated: April 22, 2021TSU ensures that the common outdoor areas of the campus are deemed traditional public forums, and permit any person to engage in Expressive Activities in those areas of the campus freely; as long as the person’s conduct is not unlawful, and does not materially and substantially disrupt the functioning of TSU. Read MoreManual of Administrative Policies and Procedures: 02.05.09- Title IX Grievance Policy & Procedures
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: April 22, 2021Title IX Sexual Harassment: Unwelcome sexual conduct determined by a reasonable person to be so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it effectively denies an individual equal access to the University’s education program or activity; Read MoreStudent Code of Conduct: Student Rights, Responsibilities and Requirements
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: April 22, 2021Students at Texas Southern University have all the rights and privileges expressed in the constitutions and laws of the United States and of the State of Texas. Basic to these rights is the guarantee of freedom of speech and assembly. Read MoreStudent Code of Conduct: Student Code of Conduct Violations- Bullying, Intimidation, and harassment
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: April 22, 2021a) Making or causing to be made any communication (including electronic or through social media) to another person in any manner likely to cause alarm; b) subjecting another person or threatening to subject another person to striking, kicking, shoving, or offensive touching; c) threatening toreveal personal informat... Read More
Texas Southern University president storms into student event, shuts down speech
October 10, 2017
Astonishing video has emerged from Texas Southern University, showing Texas Southern University President Austin Lane personally shutting down a speech by Texas state Rep. Briscoe Cain. The TSU Federalist Society chapter had invited Cain to campus to speak about his experience in the Texas legislature when the scene unfolded yesterday: A group of student protesters began… Read more
Texas Southern dropping Sen. Cornyn is just another drop in the disinvitation bucket
May 18, 2017
Last Friday, Texas Southern University announced that Sen. John Cornyn would not speak as planned in the school’s commencement ceremony. In the face of student protests, the historically black university in Houston opted instead for Sen. Cornyn to return at a later date “in order to keep the focus on graduates and their families.” This… Read more
In Texas, First Amendment Imperiled in 2008
January 1, 2009
I’m not sure what happened down in Texas in 2008, but administrators at several schools have been unusually cowardly about even the slightest challenges to their ideas of good order on campus. During the election season there was the Great Non-Riot of 2008 at the University of Texas at Austin (UT), where two students faced… Read more