Yellow Light School

Miami University of Ohio

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Public or Private: Public
Federal Circuit: Sixth Circuit
Head of Institution: President David C Hodge
Miami University of Ohio
Office of the President
Roudebush Hall 213A
501 East High Street
Oxford, OH 45056
513-529-2345
hodgedc@muohio.edu
Website: http://www.muohio.edu

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On this page, FIRE has excerpted policies that address speech and expression. You may download the full policy in .pdf form, below.

Restrictions on Expressive Rights

Harassment Policies (Learn More)

Yellow light: Student Handbook: Code of Student Conduct: Other Physical or Mental Abuse or Harm 12-13

Intentional or reckless acts that cause or reasonably could cause physical or mental harm to any person are prohibited. Actions that threaten or reasonably could cause a person to believe that the offender may cause physical or mental harm are also prohibited. Some examples of prohibited behavior include murder, assault, battery, stalking, telephone harassment, computer harassment, threats, intimidation, physical assault or abuse, verbal abuse, and any other conduct that threatens the health or safety of any person.
View full policy (PDF, 101 KB).

Yellow light: Student Handbook: Student Life- Policy Prohibiting Harassment and Discrimination 12-13

Harassment: conduct that is based on a person’s sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender
identity, military status, or veteran status that has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with a person’s employment or
educational experience or creates an intimidating, hostile, offensive working, educational or living environment.
Examples of conduct prohibited by this policy include but are no means limited to: ... Subjecting a person to offensive and unwelcome conduct based on the person’s sex, race, color,
religion, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, military status,
or veteran status. Offensive and unwanted conduct includes offensive jokes, offensive pictures and
digital images, slurs, epithets, threats, intimidation, stalking, and sexual violence, including rape,
sexual assault, sexual battery and sexual coercion. The more severe the conduct the less need there is
to show a repetitive series of incidents to demonstrate a hostile environment. In fact, a single severe
incident may be sufficient to create a hostile environment.
View full policy (PDF, 442 KB).

Posting Policies

Yellow light: Student Handbook: Student Life- Signs, Posters and Banners 12-13

Signs, posters, and banners encouraging, promoting, or advertising alcoholic beverage or tobacco consumption are prohibited.
View full policy (PDF, 260 KB).

Advertised Commitments to Free Expression

Green light policy: Student Handbook: Code of Student Conduct- Introduction 12-13

The Code of Student Conduct at Miami University is intended to foster and protect the central purpose of the University: the free and open exchange of ideas.
View full policy (PDF, 86 KB).

Green light policy: Student Handbook: Student Life- Right of Expression of Students 12-13

The University believes that the right of expression is as necessary as the right of inquiry and that both must be preserved as essential to the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge and truth. Consequently, students, individually and collectively, may express their views through the normal faculty, administrative, and student channels of communication. Students also may express their views by demonstrating peacefully for concepts they wish to make known, and the University will make every reasonable effort to protect that right.
View full policy (PDF, 195 KB).

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The speech codes and policies above were last fully checked via internet and other research means by FIRE in November 2012. According to FIRE’s research the substantive policies are current at least until this date. Directory information, including the name of the president of the college or university, may have been updated more recently. If any policy has been revised, or if you believe that we are in error, please contact us.