Mission Impossible: Can Colleges Protect and Promote Freedom of Expression While Protecting and Promoting Civility and Freedom From Harassment?
Author: Brett A. Sokolow, J.D..; Linda P. Rowe, Ed.D..
Source: Volume 06, Number 05, May/June 2005 , pp.65-75(11)
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Abstract:
In this article, Brett Sokolow and Linda Rowe discuss the difficulties colleges face in creating an environment which both promotes students’ constitutional rights to free expression and ensures an educational environment that is free from hate, haras sment, and hostility. The article covers such topics as harassment, campus civility, and the repression of free speech. The authors also summarize key cases critical to understanding the intersection of free speech and campus harassment allegations. It also discusses key case summaries critical to understanding the intersection of free speech and campus harassment allegations and present a sample harassment policy and guidelines for responses to managing specific incidents.Keywords: Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; Penry v. Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka; Hayut v. S.U.N.Y. New Paltz et al.; Henson v. Dundee; Lockard v. Pizza Hut, Inc; Doe v. University of Mich.; Gebser v. Lago Vista Independent School District; Ch
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1: Editor; 2: Contributing Editor of CS&SD.