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University of Texas at San Antonio
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Student Code of Conduct: Specific Conduct Proscribed
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Last updated: September 11, 2020Disciplinary proceedings may be initiated against any student for any of the following acts or violations: … engaging in an inappropriate or disproportionate use of an information technology resource owned or controlled by the University or System or using an information technology resource for an illegal, thr... Read MoreStudent Code of Conduct: Specific Conduct Proscribed
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Other Speech Codes
Last updated: September 11, 2020Disciplinary proceedings may be initiated against any student for any of the following acts or violations: … otherwise engaging in conduct inappropriate for members of an academic institution (such conduct includes, but is not limited to pranks, being present and/or choosing to remain where the odor of marijua... Read MoreHandbook of Operating Procedures: 9.24 Sexual Harassment and Sexual Misconduct
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 11, 2020Hostile 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. A hostile environment can be created by anyone (e.g., administrator... Read MoreHandbook of Operating Procedures: 9.09 University Posting of Materials
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Posting and Distribution Policies
Last updated: September 11, 2020Materials to be posted may not: … (3) Contain material that is obscene, vulgar, or libelous. … Read MoreResident Handbook: Hazing/Harassment
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 11, 2020UTSA is committed to providing an environment whereby students are free from any harassment or hazing. Harassment involves behavior towards a person that is unwanted (i.e., pranks, practical jokes, phone calls, emails, text messages, etc.) and will not be tolerated. If you feel you are being hazed or harassed, pleas... Read MoreStudent Code of Conduct: Specific Conduct Proscribed
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 11, 2020Disciplinary proceedings may be initiated against any student for any of the following acts or violations: … engaging in harassment; harassment is defined as conduct that is sufficiently severe, pervasive, or persistent to create an objectively hostile environment that interferes with or diminishes the ability... Read MoreHandbook of Operating Procedures: 9.37 Peaceful Public Assembly
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Other Speech Codes
Last updated: September 11, 2020University staff, faculty and students may peaceably assemble and engage in expressive activity anywhere on the UTSA campuses that they are otherwise permitted to be without advanced permission, subject to the time, place and manner rules necessary to preserve the equal rights of others and the other functions of th... Read MoreHandbook of Operating Procedures: 9.24 Sexual Harassment and Sexual Misconduct
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 11, 2020Sexual 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 More
Texas Students, FIRE’s Joe Cohn is Coming to a Campus Near You
October 6, 2014
Yeehaw! Joe Cohn, FIRE’s Legislative and Policy Director, will be traveling across the Lone Star State for a rootin’ tootin’ Texan campus tour. Students and faculty at or near the University of Houston, University of Texas at San Antonio, University of Texas at Austin, Texas State University at San Marcos, and Texas A&M are invited… Read more
Speech Code of the Month: University of Texas at San Antonio
March 6, 2013
FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for March 2013: the University of Texas at San Antonio. According to the university’s Handbook of Operating Procedures (PDF), Anonymous publications are prohibited, and any individual or organization publishing or aiding in publishing, or circulating or aiding in circulating, any anonymous publication will be subject to disciplinary… Read more
‘Free Speech Week’ Celebrated on Campuses Nationwide
April 13, 2012
FIRE celebrated Free Speech Week last week by teaming up with Students For Liberty to send FIRE speakers and materials to student groups across the country. We’re pleased to announce it was a great success! To mark the occasion, 72 student groups distributed FIRE materials and pocket-sized Constitutions on campus. More than 20 student… Read more
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