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Henderson Rules and Regulations
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Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 28, 2020Each member of the academic community or an invited guest has the right to advocate his/her position without having to fear abuse, physical, verbal, or otherwise from others supporting conflicting points of view. Members of the academic community and other persons on the college grounds, shall not use language or ta... Read MoreSexual Harassment Policy
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 28, 2020Sexual harassment is a serious form of misconduct that is demeaning, offensive, illegal and prohibited by the University’s policy, which was adopted by the Board of Trustees in 1995 and revised in 2005. Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, non-verbal or physical conduct of ... Read MoreUnderstanding and Preventing Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment: Definitions
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 28, 2020Sexual Harassment is unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature that limits a student’s ability to participate in or benefit from an educational program. It includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, nonverbal, or physical conduct of a sexual nature on or off campus. Read MoreCUNY Policy on Sexual Misconduct
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 28, 2020Sexual Harassment is unwelcome verbal or physical behavior based on a person’s sex (including sexual orientation, gender, gender expression and gender identity, including transgender status). Conduct is considered “unwelcome” if the individual did not request or invite it and considered the conduct to be undesirable... Read MorePolicy on Acceptable Use of Computer Resources
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Last updated: September 28, 2020Users may not employ a false identity, mask the identity of an account or computer, or use CUNY Computer Resources to engage in abuse of others, such as sending harassing, obscene, threatening, abusive, deceptive, or anonymous messages within or outside CUNY. … [U]se of CUNY Computer Resources for partisan pol... Read MoreCUNY Policy on Sexual Misconduct: Title IX Sexual Harassment
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 28, 2020Title IX Sexual Harassment is a subset of the broader definition of Sexual Harassment above. It is defined by the USDOE to mean conduct on the basis of sex that occurs in CUNY’s education program or activity against a person in the United States and that satisfies one or more of the following: … unwelcome cond... Read MoreHenderson Rules and Regulations
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Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: September 28, 2020The tradition of the university as a sanctuary of academic freedom and center of informed discussion is an honored one, to be guarded vigilantly. The basic significance of that sanctuary lies in the protection of intellectual freedoms; the rights of professors to teach, of scholars to engage in the advancement of kn... Read More
City College of New York reverses cancellation of pro-Palestine event after pressure from legal groups
May 2, 2018
Last week, the City College of New York announced that it had reversed its cancellation of a Students for Justice in Palestine chapter’s book event featuring Israeli-American activist and author Miko Peled. According to Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights, CCNY’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter first submitted a request in January… Read more
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