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Location: Orono, Maine
Website: http://www.umaine.edu
Type: Public
Federal Circuit: 1st Circuit
University of Maine has been given the speech code rating Yellow. Yellow light colleges and universities are those institutions with at least one ambiguous policy that too easily encourages administrative abuse and arbitrary application. Read more here.
Student Conduct Code
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: June 9, 2017Sexual Harassment: Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when: … such conduct interferes with an individual’s academic or work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive employment, educational, or living environment.
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Harassment or Intimidation: Unwelcome behavior that creates a hostile or intimidating working, educational, or living environment or behavior that unreasonably interferes with an individual’s academic or job performance and opportunities.
Student Handbook: Policies & Regulations – Electronic Communication Policy
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Last updated: June 9, 2017[T]he University reserves the right to take restrictive actions in response to complaints that posted material creates a hostile environment for individuals or classes of individuals. The University also has the responsibility to take restrictive action when a user violates University policy or federal, state or local laws.
Guide to Campus Living: Solicitation/Posting/Gambling Policies
Speech Code Category: Posting and Distribution Policies
Last updated: June 9, 2017The Office of Residence Life must approve all posters and fliers prior to posting in the halls. … Notices of items for sale (personal property), lost and found, rides needed etc may be posted in the halls by hall residents if they are approved by the Community Coordinator, and deemed appropriate for community display.
Student Handbook: Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assault, Relationship Violence, Stalking and Retaliation
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: June 9, 2017Sexual harassment includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, including sexual assault. Sexual harassment, including sexual assault, can involve persons of the same or opposite sex. Consistent with the law, this policy prohibits two types of sexual harassment: …
Hostile Environment: Sexual harassment that creates a hostile environment is based on sex and exists when the harassment:
i. Is severe, pervasive, or persistent, and objectively offensive such that it denies or limits a person’s ability to participate in or benefit from the University’s programs, services, opportunities, or activities; or
ii. Unreasonably interferes with an individual’s academic or work performance.Student Handbook: Policies & Regulations – Free Speech and Assembly Policy
Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies
Last updated: June 9, 2017Individuals and groups wishing to use outdoor areas and facilities shall notify the Director of Public Safety at least three days in advance of the nature, the time, and the place of the proposed activity.
Guide to Campus Living
Speech Code Category: Policies on Bias and Hate Speech
Last updated: June 9, 2017Residence Life believes The University of Maine and all of our residence halls are “No Place for Hate”. No Place for Hate is a campaign by the Division of Student Affairs to combat subtle and overt hate and bias on the UMaine campus. We believe that bullying of any kind is harassment. As citizens of this community, we will not tolerate harassment or bias behavior. We rely on all community members to confront or report any instance of hate or harassment.
Student Handbook: Policies & Regulations – Free Speech and Assembly Policy
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: June 9, 2017There shall be no restrictions placed on the fundamental rights to free speech and assembly except those necessary to protect the rights of others and to preserve the order necessary for the University to function as an institution of higher learning.
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University of Maine Adopts ‘Affirmative Consent’ – But No ‘Ongoing’ Requirement
November 18, 2014
By Greg Piper at The College Fix Students at the University of Maine will be operating under a new sexual-consent policy following a vote by the board of trustees Monday, WGME 13 reports. The new policy notably does not require that consent be “ongoing,” one of the criticisms of California’s new law for campus sex. It reads in full: Consent is agreement to engage in sexual contact. Consent must be informed, freely and actively given, and consist of a mutually agreeable and understandable exchange of words or actions. Consent is clear, knowing and voluntary. Consent is active, not passive. Consent may be withdrawn at […]
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