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Utah State University
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Housing and Residential Life: Housing and Residence Life Philosophy- Residential Support Principle
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: March 22, 2018A member of the Utah State University Housing community supports, practices, and respects: 1. Personal and academic integrity through elimination of deceit, plagiarism, lying, and disloyalty. 2. Dignity of all persons, by not demeaning, teasing, ridiculing, or insulting individuals or groups. 3. Rights and property ... Read MoreThe Code of Policies and Procedures for Students at Utah State University: SECTION II-1 Responsibilities of Students
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: March 22, 2018All interactions with faculty members, staff members, and other students shall be conducted with courtesy, civility, decency, and a concern for personal dignity. Read MoreThe Code of Policies and Procedures for Students at Utah State University: SECTION III-2- Posters and Bulletin Boards
Speech Code Category: Posting and Distribution Policies
Last updated: March 22, 2018The Vice President for Student Services shall ensure that space is available on campus for posters. Students desiring to display posters in the Taggart Student Center shall confer with the Director of the Taggart Student Center (Room 326), who shall issue approval and specify the location for such display. Read MoreThe Code of Policies and Procedures for Students at Utah State University: SECTION V-3 University Standards of Student Conduct
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: March 22, 2018Sexual harassment is defined under the Utah State University Policy Number 339, Utah State University Policy Manual, as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, when: … such conduct unreasonably interferes with an individual’s work or... Read MoreThe Code of Policies and Procedures for Students at Utah State University: SECTION V-3 University Standards of Student Conduct
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: March 22, 2018Wrongfully inflicting physical or mental duress, harm, or abuse upon another person, including but not limited to verbal abuse, threats and intimidation, stalking, sexual violence, arson, and murder. Read MoreTitle IX/Equal Opportunity: Sexual Harassment- Examples of Sexual Harassment
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: March 22, 2018Sexual Harassment may include but is not limited to: Verbal Whistling or making cat calls at someone Making sexual comments about a persons clothing or body Telling sexual jokes or stories Asking personal questions about an individuals sex life, fantasies, preferences or history Repeatedly asking a person out who ... Read MoreThe Code of Policies and Procedures for Students at Utah State University: SECTION III-1 Demonstrations and Distribution of Literature
Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies
Last updated: March 22, 2018A. Students, student organizations, and nonstudent individuals or groups sponsored by students/student organizations desiring to demonstrate, picket, or distribute literature on the campus are encouraged to file a written request with the Vice President for Student Services indicating the preferred time, place, ... Read More
Speech Code of the Month: Utah State University
December 18, 2017
FIRE announces our Speech Code of the Month for December 2017: Utah State University. Utah State’s Student Code requires that “[a]ll interactions with faculty members, staff members, and other students shall be conducted with courtesy, civility, decency, and a concern for personal dignity.” On the surface, this might sound reasonable: what’s wrong with asking for… Read more
Threats of Violence Lead Feminist Critic to Cancel Speech at Utah State
October 27, 2014
Most often, when FIRE talks about “disinvitations,” the conversation revolves around colleges formally rescinding invitations to speakers because of something controversial associated with the speaker, or students protesting the speaker so much that the school either withdraws its invitation or the speaker backs out “voluntarily.” In more extreme cases, sometimes students will shout down the… Read more
Student Papers at UGA, Utah State on Schools’ ‘Red Light’ Ratings
February 8, 2012
Coverage of FIRE’s most recent speech code report, Spotlight on Speech Codes 2012: The State of Free Speech on Our Nation’s Campuses, keeps rolling in. Recently, student newspapers at the University of Georgia (UGA) and Utah State University (USU) joined those campus outlets that have drawn attention to FIRE’s review of their institution’s policies on… Read more
‘Herald Journal’ Examines Utah State’s Red-Light Rating
April 14, 2011
Azhar was recently quoted in an article in The Herald Journal (Logan, Utah) about free speech restrictions at Utah State University (USU). Unfortunately, like 260 other schools in our Spotlight database, USU possesses a red-light rating, meaning that it has at least one policy that clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech. While USU in fact… Read more
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