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Bucks County Community College

Public or Private: Public
Federal Circuit: Third Circuit
Head of Institution: President James J Linksz
Bucks County Community College
275 Swamp Road
Newtown, PA 18940
215-968-8222
linkszj@bucks.edu
Website: http://www.bucks.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)

Green light: College Catalog: Campus Regulations- Sexual Harassment Policy 09-10

Sexual harassment exists where unwelcome sexual conduct is sufficiently severe or pervasive that it creates a hostile or abusive atmosphere. A discriminatorily abusive work or educational environment can and often will detract from employees' or students' performance, discourage them from remaining at the College, or keep them from advancing in their careers. When the workplace or academic environment is permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insult that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim's employment or education and create an abusive working or educational environment, federal law and College policy are violated.
Sexual harassment can be verbal, visual, physical or communicated in writing or electronically. Continuous incidents of unwelcome sexual harassment such as sexual comments, gestures, sexual advances or touching constitute sexual harassment when they result in a pattern of behavior that creates a hostile environment which impairs an individual's ability to work, learn, or participate in any College function.
Not every act that might be offensive to an individual or a group necessarily will be considered as harassment and/or a violation of the College's standards of conduct. Whether an environment is "hostile" or "abusive" can be determined only by looking at all circumstances. These may include the frequency of the discriminatory conduct; its severity; whether it is physically threatening or humiliating, or a mere offensive utterance; and whether it unreasonably interferes with an employee's or student's performance.
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Advertised Commitments to Free Expression

Green light policy: College Catalog: Student Body Bill of Rights and Responsibilities 09-10

Rights

1. Freedom of expression in the classroom.
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5. Freedom of association
6. Freedom of inquiry and expression in student organizations
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8. Freedom to exercise citizenship rights.
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The speech codes and policies above were last fully checked via internet and other research means by FIRE in October 2009. 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.