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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: March 10, 2020When communicating with others via the University computer system, ensure that communications reflect high ethical standards, mutual respect and civility. Read MoreManual of Administrative Policies and Procedures: 5.01.01- Freedom of Expression
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies
Last updated: March 10, 2020The university expects that persons engaging in organized expressive activities will demonstrate civility … Organized expressive activity: Any organized non-curriculum related rally, parade, demonstration, stationary structure or display, concert or other similar event designed to attract an audience of twenty... 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: March 10, 2020(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: 2.05.11- Sexual Harassment Policy
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: March 10, 2020The University’s sexual harassment policy is designed to apply to employment and academic relationships among faculty, administrators, staff, and students and prohibits opposite-sex (male-to-female, female-to-male), and same-sex (female-to-female, male-to-male) harassment. Every employee of the University must avoid... Read MoreTitle IX/Sexual Assault/Sexual Misconduct
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: March 10, 2020Sexual Harassment is unwelcome, gender-based verbal or physical conduct that is, sufficiently severe, persistent or pervasive that it, unreasonably interferes with, denies or limits someone’s ability to participate in or benefit from the university’s educational program and/or activities, and is based on power diff... Read MoreStudent Code of Conduct: Student Rights, Responsibilities and Requirements
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: March 10, 2020Students 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: March 10, 2020a) 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
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