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Winona State University
Speech Code Rating
Student Conduct Code: Proscribed Conduct
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Other Speech Codes
Last updated: March 16, 2021Failure to engage in responsible social conduct that reflects credit upon the University community and to model good citizenship in any community. Read MoreStudent Conduct Code: Proscribed Conduct
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: March 16, 2021Physical or verbal abuse, threats, intimidation, harassment, coercion, and/or other conduct that threatens or endangers the health or safety of any person. This includes any form of fighting. Read MoreMinnesota State Colleges & Universities: Procedure 5.22.1, Acceptable Use of Computers and Information Technology Resources
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Last updated: March 16, 2021Users must not engage in inappropriate uses, including: … Storage, display, transmission, or intentional or solicited receipt of material that is or may be reasonably regarded as obscene, sexually explicit, or pornographic, including any depiction, photograph, audio recording, video or written word, except as ... Read MoreMinnesota State Colleges and Universities Board Policies: 1B.1 Equal Opportunity and Nondiscrimination in Employment and Education
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: March 16, 2021Sexual harassment includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, sexually motivated physical conduct, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when: … Such conduct has the purpose or effect of threatening an individual’s employment; interfering with an individual’s w... Read MoreMinnesota State Colleges and Universities Board Policies: 1B.1 Equal Opportunity and Nondiscrimination in Employment and Education
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: March 16, 2021Discriminatory harassment means verbal or physical conduct that is directed at an individual because of his or her protected class, and that is sufficiently severe, pervasive, or persistent so as to have the purpose or effect of creating a hostile work or educational environment. Read MoreHousing & Residence Life Policies & Procedures Handbook: Harassment
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: March 16, 2021Students will respect the dignity and value the worth of all persons. Students will at no time physically, psychologically, or sexually abuse any member of this community; or participate in harassment, discrimination, intimidation or threat; whether verbal, written, online, physical or psychological, direct or impli... Read MoreMinnesota State Colleges & Universities Board Policies: 3.1, Students Rights & Responsibilities
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: March 16, 2021Part 2. Freedom of Expression Individual students and student organizations shall be free to examine and discuss all questions of interest to them and to express opinions publicly and privately. … Part 3. Freedom of Association Students shall be free to organize and join organizations to promote their common a... Read MoreMinnesota State Colleges & Universities Board Policies: Procedure 1B.3.1 Response to Sexual Violence and Title IX Sexual Harassment
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: March 16, 2021For purposes of Title IX, sexual harassment means conduct on the basis of sex that occurs in a college or university’s program or activity in the United States that satisfies one or more of the following: … Unwelcome conduct determined by a reasonable person to be so severe, pervasive and objectively offensive... Read MoreRegulation 4-4: Use of University Space/Facilities
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies
Last updated: March 16, 2021Protesting is permissible in public and limited public places unless it is a disruptive activity or impedes access. … Public spaces: Streets Sidewalks Public parking areas Green space … Public spaces — No reservation required. Read More
Winona State University: Outdoor Speech Restrictions
April 20, 2012
In April 2012, the GLBTA Partnership at Winona State University planned to hold a “Day of Silence” event and requested permission from WSU to position mannequin torsos bearing various epithets and slurs on campus. The university prohibited GLBTA from displaying the torsos in or near WSU’s outdoor gazebo, claiming that school-aged children would be on… Read more