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A Statesman review of free speech policies at ACC and six Texas universities found some institutions have added additional speech limitations as they updated their policies. Austin Community College
Gov. Greg Abbott, shown at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's annual leadership conference last fall, is ordering Texas universities to update free speech policies to better protect ...
At this Texas university, getting accepted is "mind" over matter. The University of Austin (UATX) – founded on free speech principles to push back against "woke" ideology – is shunning ...
For six years, the case wound its way through the courts; although the trial court ruled in favor of Texas A&M several times, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals repeatedly overturned the verdict. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take the case, letting stand the circuit court ruling that the students' free speech rights had been compromised.
Last week, I helped launch the Academic Freedom Alliance (AFA), a nonprofit organization comprising college and university faculty members from across the ideological spectrum who are committed to ...
The use of free speech zones on university campuses is controversial. Many universities created on-campus free speech zones during the 1960s and 1970s, during which protests on-campus (especially against the Vietnam War) were common. Generally, the requirements are that the university is given advance notice and that they are held in locations ...
Northeast Independent School District, Bexar County, Texas, the court declined to decide whether Tinker reached off-campus speech. "We do note, however, that it is not at all unusual to allow the geographical location of the actor to determine the constitutional protection that should be afforded to his or her acts", and since the newspaper had ...
“Texas supports free speech, especially on university campuses, but that freedom comes with responsibilities for both students and the institutions themselves,” Abbott wrote in the order.