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COVID on Campus: The Pandemic’s Impact on Student and Faculty Speech Rights
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I: Introduction ▲
It’s difficult to find any aspect of our lives that has not been impacted by COVID‑19. Travel, holidays, business, entertainment, and much more look completely different today than they did a year ago. As K–12 and college students, faculty, teachers, and administrators know all too well, education has been deeply changed perhaps permanently by travel restrictions, school closures, and the switch to online education.But COVID‑19’s consequences for education have not been limited to location, access, or, in the University of California, Berkeley’s case, temporary bans on outdoor exercise. On campuses across the country, speech and due process rights have been challenged, too, as administrators struggle to respond to the pandemic. At the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), we have been paying careful attention to how these
JOHANNA NEUMANN
Published: 2/1/2021 11:45:52 AM
Kaitlyn Mitchell said no to being an activist before she said yes. Why did she come back? Perhaps, it was her political and community-minded upbringing. Perhaps it was self-interest. Asthma attacks, made worse by bad air pollution in her hometown of Springfield, had plagued her since she was 2 years old. In the end, though, it could have been that she realized that if she didn’t push for what she believed in, who would?
When Kaitlyn arrived at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, she was among the 100-plus students who attended the semester kickoff meeting of MASSPIRG, a student-advocacy group working to protect the environment, alleviate poverty, and increase participation in democracy. She didn’t immediately lean in because she felt compelled to figure out her coursework and her major first.
Steps To College 2021 Event and Scholarship Opportunity
On behalf of the California Department of Education and the Consulate General of Mexico in Sacramento, we are pleased to invite you, your students, and their families to the
Tenth Edition of Steps to College (STC). The STC is the largest bilingual and binational University Fair in Northern California, which will be held virtually throughout February 2021, live and via a special platform created for this purpose.
This unique fair is a long-term educational project organized on a yearly basis by the Consulate General of Mexico in Sacramento in partnership with the California Student Aid Commission, the University of California System, the California State University System, the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities, the Community College System, Mexican Universities, the
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MELVILLE, N.Y., Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Aligning with its commitment to supporting higher education, Canon Solutions America, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc., is proud to announce its new cooperative contract with the University of California. Through the company s diverse portfolio of document solutions and services offerings designed to support students and teachers both inside and outside of the classroom, Canon Solutions America, Inc., plans to help the University of California deliver innovative solutions, creativity on multiple levels, and a long-term view that anticipates challenges and meets them head-on. In effect as of December 16, 2020, the cooperative agreement, available nationwide through OMNIA Partners, is valid for a period of five years with five one-year renewal options.