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University of Texas at Arlington
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Posting Authorization Request
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Posting and Distribution Policies
Last updated: March 3, 2021This form to be used for: Flyers, Signs, Banners, Sidewalk Chalking All postings must have the following: 1) 2×2 inch blank square in the bottom right-hand corner 2) Full name of sponsoring organization or department Note:Postings lacking the above items will not be approved. Read MoreUniversity Catalog: Student Conduct & Academic Integrity- Sexual Harassment and Sexual Misconduct
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: March 3, 2021Definition of Sexual Harassment: Sexual harassment is defined by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the courts to be any unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, when: … such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasona... Read MoreEI-PO-04 Non-Discrimination Policy
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: October 26, 2021Harassment on the basis of any protected characteristics described in this policy is strictly prohibited and is a form of discrimination prohibited by various statutes including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of... Read MoreEI-PO8 Sexual Misconduct Policy
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: March 3, 2021Hostile Environment – exists when Sexual Misconduct is sufficiently severe or pervasive to deny or limit the individual’s ability to participate in or benefit from an education program or activity or an employee’s terms and conditions of employment. … To conclude that conduct created or contributed to a hostil... Read MorePolicy GA-PA-PO1 University Policy on Free Speech, Expression, and Assembly: Prohibited Expression
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: March 3, 2021Harassment. No person will engage in conduct that constitutes harassment of another person. No person will make, distribute, or display any statement that constitutes harassment of another person on campus or through University information resources. … To make an argument for or against the substance of any po... Read MoreEI-PO8 Sexual Misconduct Policy: Sexual Harassment
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: March 3, 2021Sexual Harassment – Conduct on the basis of sex that satisfies one or more of the following: … Unwelcome conduct determined by a reasonable person to be so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it effectively denies a person equal access to the University’s education program or activity; … Read MorePolicy GA-PA-PO1 University Policy on Free Speech, Expression, and Assembly: Definitions
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: March 3, 2021“Harassment” means hostile or threatening conduct or speech, whether oral, written, or symbolic, that is not necessary to the expression of any idea described in Subsection 13–204(b)(2); is sufficiently severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive to create an objectively hostile or threatening environme... Read MoreProcedure GA-PA-PR1 Free Speech, Expression and Assembly
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Posting and Distribution Policies
Last updated: March 3, 2021Registered student organizations, sponsored student organizations, faculty organizations and staff organizations, and academic and administrative units may sell, distribute, or display Literature on campus, subject to the rules in the Policy, this procedure and to the general rules in UTA HOP CO-UF-PO1. Individual s... Read MoreGA-PA-PO1 University Policy on Free Speech, Expression, and Assembly
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies
Last updated: March 3, 2021Traditional public forums include the University’s public streets, sidewalks, parks, and similar Common Outdoor Areas. These areas are generally available, subject to the University’s time, place and manner restrictions, for expressive activity by members of the public at any time without the need for reservation or... Read MorePolicy CO-UF-PO1 University Facilities Use Policy
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Policies on Bias and Hate Speech
Last updated: March 3, 2021No person shall distribute any petition, handbill, or other literature, post or carry any sign, banner, etc. or engage in speech or conduct on university property if the content is obscene, libelous, harassment or directed to incite or produce lawless action or is likely to produce such lawless action. Read More
September 2020 Speech Code of the Month: University of Texas at Arlington
September 2, 2020
(Editor’s note: This policy has since been revised. Please visit the University of Texas at Arlington’s entry in FIRE’s Spotlight Database for more information.) College students across the country are starting their fall semesters during a turbulent time, to say the least. With demonstrations against racial injustice sweeping the nation and the presidential election right… Read more
Right to Wear Greek Letters Vindicated at UT Arlington
November 30, 2012
Recently, FIRE intervened at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) after the Sigma Phi Epsilon (SigEp) fraternity brought to our attention what I suspect is an all-too-common punishment against fraternities and sororities: the prohibition on displaying their letters in any way while the chapter was under investigation. After FIRE brought this issue to UTA’s… Read more