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February 2021 Speech Code of the Month: Johns Hopkins University We’re proud to say our long-running Speech Code of the Month series — in which we highlight a policy that is particularly restrictive of students’ free speech rights — gets results, with about 50% of schools responding by revising the speech code in question. But some universities seem to be stuck in a time loop, like Bill Murray’s character in the movie “Groundhog Day,” holding onto those same, problematic policies. Back in 2006, FIRE selected the “Principles for Ensuring Equity, Civility and Respect for All” ...

A new damning report by CST (Community Security Trust) accuses Bristol Uni 0f “bad practice” for its failure to tackle anti-Semitism. The report says there have been seven anti-Semitic incidences in Bristol since 2018, making Bristol one of six cities with five or more recorded cases of anti-Semitism. The dossier written by CST, a UK charity that advises and represents the Jewish community on matters of anti-Semitism, terrorism, policing and security, lists all 123 reported on campus anti-Semitic incidences that occurred between 2018-2020. Notably, with the exception of Coventry and Lei...

CU Denver revises email policy, commits to upholding free speech Each month, FIRE highlights one restrictive policy at a college or university as our “Speech Code of the Month.” Because it’s far from an award to be proud of, FIRE encourages institutions with these policies to amend them quickly. However, our words often go unheeded, exposing the university or college to costly legal battles and chilling student expression.  But not all institutions are content with leaving bad policies on their books. This month, FIRE’s December Speech Code of the Month recipient, the University of C...

Must also delete offensive email you receive – immediately College administrator to lawyer: Draft a policy that I can use against any student or instructor who annoys me. (20 minutes later) Lawyer to administrator: You’re gonna love this. Even by the standards of college speech codes, the University of Colorado-Denver has a mind-numbingly stupid and blatantly unconstitutional policy on email you’re allowed to send through the campus IT system. The taxpayer-funded university is featured as the Speech Code of the Month by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. It earned a “r...

And self-determination in the face of left-wing intolerance, the anger, the unbelievable anger, i see it every day, it's mostly pointed at me. [laughter] >> you have the courage to speak to truth, to do what is right and to fight for what you believe and keep doing it. [cheers and applause] >> we reject oppressive speech code, censorship, political correctness and every other attempt by the hard left to stop people from challenging ridiculous and dangerous ideas, these ideas are dangerous. instead we believe in free speech including online and including on-campus and by the way, there's a youn...