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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 ...
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
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 ...
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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 ...
Right to free speech and association rights; Students retain their first amendment rights in institutions of higher education. [135] Papish v. Board of Curators of the Univ. of Missouri (1973) and Joyner v. Whiting (1973) found students may engage in speech that do not interfere with the rights of others or of the operation of the school. [136]
Free speech absolutists argue that universities must permit all student speech even if it is incorrect or grossly offensive. Others argue that administrators must stop discriminatory hate speech.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), formerly called the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, is a 501(c)(3) [1] non-profit civil liberties group founded in 1999 with the mission of protecting freedom of speech on college campuses in the United States.