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University of Texas at Tyler
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Manual of Policies and Procedures for Student Affairs: Sec. 8-804. Certain Other Offenses
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 18, 2021Inappropriate Behavior. Students may not engage in conduct that is inappropriate for members of an academic institution (such conduct includes but is not limited to: pranks, public nudity, harassing phone calls or email, and berating or otherwise abusive behavior); Read MoreResidence Life Handbook: Resident Consideration Policy
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Other Speech Codes
Last updated: September 18, 2021Bullying, harassing, humiliating, demeaning, and other such actions will not be tolerated. This includes but is not limited to inappropriate material about a student in writing or by e-mail, Facebook, and etc.; verbally accosting another student; coercing, intimidating, and/or degrading another student; or any other... Read MoreManual of Policies and Procedures for Student Affairs: Sec. 6-204. Regulations Applicable to University Property
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 18, 2021b. “Verbal harassment” means hostile or offensive speech, oral, written, or symbolic, that 1. personally describes or is personally directed to one or more specific individuals; and 2. is sufficiently severe, pervasive, or persistent to create an objectively hostile environment that interferes with or di... Read MoreHandbook of Operating Procedures: 2.4.3. Sexual Misconduct
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies, Statement
Last updated: September 18, 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. A hostile environment can be created by anyone (e.g., administrator... Read MoreHandbook of Operating Procedures: 2.4.3. Sexual Misconduct: Sexual Harassment
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 18, 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 MoreManual of Policies and Procedures for Student Affairs: Sec. 6-103. Freedom of Speech, Expression, and Assembly
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression, Statement
Last updated: September 18, 2021The freedoms of speech, expression, and assembly are fundamental rights of all persons and are central to the mission of the University. Students, faculty, and staff have the right to assemble, to speak, and to attempt to attract the attention of others, and corresponding rights to hear the speech of others when the... Read MoreManual of Policies and Procedures for Student Affairs: Sec. 6-901. General Rule on Public Assemblies
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies, Statement
Last updated: September 18, 2021b. All individuals may publicly assemble on campus in any place where, at the time of the assembly, the persons assembling are permitted to be. This right to assemble is subject to the rules in this subchapter, to the general rules in subchapters 6-200 and 6-300, and to the rules on use of University property in MOP... Read More