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University of Texas at San Antonio

Location: San Antonio, Texas
Type: Public
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Speech Code Rating

University of Texas at San Antonio 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
This school has adopted the chicago statement for free speech. This school has adopted the chicago statement for free speech. This school has adopted the chicago statement for free speech.

  • Student Code of Conduct: Specific Conduct Proscribed

    Speech Code Rating: Yellow
    Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
    Last updated: September 15, 2021

    Disciplinary 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 More

  • Student Code of Conduct: Specific Conduct Proscribed

    Speech Code Rating: Yellow
    Speech Code Category: Other Speech Codes
    Last updated: September 15, 2021

    Disciplinary 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 More

  • Handbook of Operating Procedures: 9.24 Sexual Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Policy

    Speech Code Rating: Yellow
    Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
    Last updated: September 15, 2021

    Hostile 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 More

  • Handbook of Operating Procedures: 9.09 University Posting of Materials

    Speech Code Rating: Yellow
    Speech Code Category: Posting and Distribution Policies
    Last updated: September 15, 2021

    Materials to be posted may not: … (3) Contain material that is obscene, vulgar, or libelous. … Read More

  • Resident Handbook: Hazing/Harassment

    Speech Code Rating: Yellow
    Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
    Last updated: September 15, 2021

    UTSA 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 More

  • Student Code of Conduct: Specific Conduct Proscribed

    Speech Code Rating: Green
    Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
    Last updated: September 15, 2021

    Disciplinary 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 More

  • Handbook of Operating Procedures: 9.37 Peaceful Public Assembly

    Speech Code Rating: Green
    Speech Code Category: Other Speech Codes
    Last updated: September 15, 2021

    University 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 More

  • Handbook of Operating Procedures: 9.24 Sexual Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Policy

    Speech Code Rating: Green
    Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
    Last updated: September 15, 2021

    Sexual 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
At present, FIRE has not been publicly involved in any cases at this school.

  • 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