University of Wisconsin – Green Bay
Location: Green Bay, Wisconsin
Website: http://www.uwgb.edu
Type: Public
Federal Circuit: 7th Circuit
Speech Code Rating
University of Wisconsin – Green Bay 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 here.
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University of Wisconsin: Students’ Due Process Rights
March 13, 2009
FIRE successfully persuaded the University of Wisconsin’s Board of Regents to affirm due process rights for students, including the option of a hearing before a committee including student peers, attorney representation in the case of serious allegations, and both e-mail and paper notification of proceedings. The Board had proposed changes to the State Administrative Code governing infractions and judicial procedures within Wisconsin’s public universities that would have limited due process rights and granted more discretion to administrators. FIRE’s Adam Kissel engaged in a speaking tour of University of Wisconsin schools in opposition to these changes, even speaking before the Board […]
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Housing and Residence Life Policies and Expectations- Inclusivity
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: May 29, 2018The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is committed to a vision of diversity that is broadly inclusive, warmly welcoming, and equitable in its treatment of all members of the campus community. Through engagement, reflection and action, we will be an institution committed to diversity in thought and practice moving beyond labels and categories that put up barriers and keep us fragmented.
Behavior unbecoming to our campus commitment to inclusivity should be reported to the Office of Residence Life or the Dean of Students Office.
Housing and Residence Life: Civility, Diversity, and Inclusive Excellence
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: May 29, 2018UW-Green Bay and Residence Life will not tolerate behavior aimed at discriminating, degrading or hurting people– whether physical, emotional, or indirect (notes, signs, gestures).
Office of Public Safety: Bias Incident or Hate Crime Report
Speech Code Category: Policies on Bias and Hate Speech
Last updated: May 29, 2018The purpose of this form is to report to the university incidents motivated by bias or hatred which occur on and off the UWGB campus in an effort to record, respond and prevent future behaviors. If this is an urgent or emergency situation in some which some one does not feel safe, call 911 or UWGB Public Safety at 920-465-2300 option #1. Submissions of this form are responded to in a timely manner, but not as emergencies.
By reporting such incidents, you help the university community to maintain a positive learning, living and working environment. Examples may include but are not limited to the use of degrading language or slurs, spoken or written, or degrading behavior directed at women, men, gays, lesbians, individuals with visible or hidden disabilities or language or behavior that is racist, anti-Semitic, etc.
Chapter UWS 18: Conduct on University Lands
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Last updated: May 29, 2018No person may, with intent to harass, annoy or offend another person, send a message to the person on an electronic mail or other computerized communication system and in that message use any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggest any lewd or lascivious act.
Office of Public Safety: Policy on Violence and Threats
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: May 29, 2018No person may engage in violent conduct or make threats of violence, implied or direct, on university lands or in connection with university business. This includes but is not limited to: … Acts or threats made directly or indirectly by words, gestures or symbols.
Dean of Students: Policies and Procedures- Civility and Inclusivity Statement
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: May 29, 2018As campus community members, we are responsible for our behaviors and are fully accountable for our actions. We must each take responsibility for our awareness of discrimination and its many forms (i.e. racism, sexism, ageism, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia, etc.). The concept of campus civility and inclusiveness can be demonstrated in hallways, classrooms, student housing, and the workplace environment.
Bigotry will be addressed on this campus. Discriminatory, harassing, or intimidating behaviors will be subject to the University’s disciplinary processes. As a campus community we will not engage in harassment or discrimination against another human being on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender and/or gender identity or expression, marital or parental status, genetic information, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship status, veteran or military status (including disabled veteran, recently separated veteran, other protected veteran, or Armed Forces service medal veteran status), age, or disability. Verbal or written abuse, threats, harassment, intimidation, or violence against persons or property will not be tolerated. In this context, alcohol or substance abuse will not be accepted as a defense for such abuse, harassment, intimidation, or violence. Absence of malice, intent or “it is just a joke” is also not a defense for such behaviors. As a campus community we expect that all members engage in the resources provided to better understand all aspects of discriminations and harassment.
All who work, live, study, teach, and visit the UWGB community are here by choice and as part of that choice should be committed to these principles of civility and inclusivity which are an integral part of UWGB’s Strategic Mission and the Harassment and Discrimination Policy.
Housing and Residence Life Policies and Expectations- Abuse, Bias-Motivated Behavior, Domestic Violence, Harassment, and Sexual Assault
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: May 29, 2018Discrimination and harassment have no place on our campus. Harassment can be verbal, physical or electronic in nature. Threats, demands for favors, social media posts or constant calling or texting are just some ways individuals can be harassed. Conduct that is intended to demean an individual and creates a hostile, intimidating, or demeaning environment may be sanctioned if the behavior breaches the peace or tends to provoke an immediate violent response.
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Bias-motivated behavior will not be tolerated on campus. Bias-motivated behavior includes activity motivated by an offender’s bias against a victim’s age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other physical or cultural characteristic. Bias-motivated behavior may include, but is not limited to social media, graffiti, vandalism, destruction of personal property, threatening phone calls or text messages, verbal harassment, or physical abuse.
Policy and Procedures Prohibiting Harassment and Discrimination
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: May 29, 2018Discriminatory Harassment is a form of discrimination consisting of unwelcome verbal, written, graphic or physical conduct that:
1. Is directed at an individual or group of individuals on the basis of the individual or group of individuals’ actual or perceived protected status, or affiliation or association with person(s) within a protected status (as defined herein above); and
2. is sufficiently severe or pervasive so as to interfere with an individual’s employment, education or academic environment or participation in institution programs or activities and creates a working, learning, program or activity environment that a reasonable person would find intimidating, offensive or hostile.
To constitute prohibited harassment, the conduct must be both objectively and subjectively harassing in nature. Harassment may include but is not limited to verbal or physical attacks, threats, slurs or derogatory or offensive comments that meet the definition set forth herein.