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University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
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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… Read more
By delaying free speech survey in response to criticism, University of Wisconsin System errs
April 15, 2022
Just days before the launch of a survey on the campus climate for free speech, the University of Wisconsin System caved to public pressure baselessly alleging the survey would lead to illiberal legislation, and delayed the initiative until the fall semester. The response to the survey, which included the resignation of the interim chancellor of… Read more
Speech Code of the Month: University of Wisconsin Whitewater
September 7, 2011
FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for September 2011: University of Wisconsin Whitewater (UWW). Remember a few years back when Taco Bell decided that three meals a day were not enough and created “fourthmeal,” “the meal between dinner and breakfast”? Well, UWW has done something similar, but with extra censorship instead of melted… Read more
The Golden Rule and Academic Freedom
February 18, 2005
There are many lessons to be learned from the battle at the University of Colorado at Boulder over whether the former ethnic studies departmental chair, but still tenured professor Ward Churchill, should be dismissed from the faculty. The ostensible grounds for the current investigation are suspected irregularities in his academic background that might justify stripping… Read more