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University of North Carolina – Pembroke
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POL 04.25.05 – Student Sexual Misconduct Policy
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: June 10, 202125.3 Sexual Harassment is unwelcome verbal, nonverbal, online, graphic, or physical aggression, intimidation, or hostile conduct based on a person’s Protected Status, when such conduct is sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive that it interferes with or limits a person’s ability to participate in or benefit f... Read MoreREG 11.30.01: Student Code of Conduct Regulation
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: June 10, 202114.1 No student shall threaten, coerce, harass or intimidate another person or identifiable group of persons, in a manner that is unlawful or in violation of a constitutionally valid university policy, while on university premises or at university sponsored activities based in whole or in part upon the basis of race... Read MoreStudent Handbook: Policy Prohibiting Illegal Harassment and Discrimination
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: June 10, 2021No student or student group shall engage in conduct, or assist another in the following conduct: … Harassment or intimidation directed toward a particular person or persons that is severe or pervasive and abuses or otherwise unreasonably interferes with another so as to adversely affect their academic pursuits... Read MorePOL 04.25.05 – Student Sexual Misconduct Policy- Sexual Harassment Prohibition: Title IX Compliant
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: June 10, 202124.2.2. Sexual Harassment: 24.2.2.a. an unwelcome conduct, 24.2.2.b.determined by a reasonable person, 24.2.2.c to be so severe, and 24.2.2.d pervasive, and, 24.2.2.e objectively offensive, 24.2.2.f that it effectively denies a person equal access to UNC Pembroke’s education program or activity. Read MorePOL 08.00.05 – Acceptable Use Policy
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Last updated: June 10, 2021Conduct which violates this policy includes, but is not limited to: … The use of the UNCP information technology infrastructure to harass or intimidate others or to create a hostile work or educational environment. … Engaging in conduct that violates applicable university policy or state or federal law. Read MorePOL 04.25.05 – Student Sexual Misconduct Policy
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Bullying Policies
Last updated: June 10, 202125.12 Bullying, defined as: 25.12.1 Repeated and/or severe 25.12.2 aggressive behavior 25.12.3 likely to intimidate or intentionally hurt, control, or diminish another person, physically and/or mentally 25.12.4 that is not speech or conduct otherwise protected by the First Amendment. Read MoreREG 11.30.01: Student Code of Conduct Regulation
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Other Speech Codes
Last updated: June 10, 202112.1 Obstructing or disrupting teaching, research, or other university activities on university premises. Obstruction and/or disruption may occur through alarming others; making unreasonable noise; creating a hazardous or lewd condition by any act, which violates applicable university policy or regulation. Care ... Read MoreREG 11.30.02 – Student Rights and Responsibilities Regulation
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: June 10, 2021[N]o student may be denied the protection of the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and Article I of the Constitution of the State of North Carolina, which refer to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom to assemble peacefully … Read MorePOL 04.05.01 – Free Speech Event Policy
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies
Last updated: June 10, 20214.1.a. The University supports outdoor assembly of persons for free speech activities, including vigils, protests, demonstrations, and similar activities. Therefore, the University is committed to making outdoor space available to university affiliated or unaffiliated groups or individuals for the purposes of free s... Read More
University of North Carolina System: State of the First Amendment
January 10, 2006
FIRE teamed up with the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy to release the Report on the State of the First Amendment in the University of North Carolina System. The Report notes that UNC System’s many speech codes and illiberal restrictions on religious groups would likely not survive a legal challenge. It also… Read more
WCU, UNC Pembroke bring speech policies in line with the Constitution, earn ‘green light’ rating
December 6, 2018
Dec. 6, 2018 — Western Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Pembroke have earned the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s highest, “green light” rating for protecting student and faculty free speech, a distinction held by only 42 other institutions in the country. “Due to restrictive speech codes, most students around the country forfeit some First… Read more
REPORT: North Carolina is home to some of America’s best colleges for free speech
September 24, 2018
Eight colleges in North Carolina earn FIRE’s highest rating for free speech — more than in any other state — but 17 still maintain policies that substantially restrict student expression. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24, 2018 — A new report finds that North Carolina’s colleges and universities lead the way nationally for protecting student free speech. The… Read more
Nearly Three Years Later, Significant Improvement at North Carolina’s Public Universities
September 22, 2008
In January 2006, FIRE and the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy released a Report on the State of the First Amendment in the University of North Carolina System. The report took an in-depth look at the speech codes in force at each of the sixteen universities in the UNC System and made… Read more
Report Exposes Extensive Constitutional Violations in University of North Carolina System
January 10, 2006
RALEIGH, N.C., January 10, 2006—Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy released their Report on the State of the First Amendment in the University of North Carolina System. The Report explains precisely what the First Amendment obligations of the UNC System schools are—and… Read more
The State of the First Amendment in the University of North Carolina System
January 10, 2006
A Joint Report of the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Executive Summary If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or… Read more