West Virginia University
Location: Morgantown, WV 26506-6201
Website: http://www.wvu.edu
Speech Code Rating
West Virginia University has been given a speech code rating of Red. You may read more about this institution's speech codes at this page.
- West Virginia University: Limit on Speech to Campus "Free Speech Zones"
- Phi Beta Kappa: Member Institutions' Speech Codes
FIRE Cases at West Virginia University
- Education quality more important than marketing, The Charleston Gazette, May 18, 2007
- Foundation claims WVU violates students’ speech rights, The Daily Athenaeum, February 23, 2007
- FIRE Applauds University of Nevada-Reno's Dropping of 'Speech Zones', Agape Press, July 5, 2006
- UNCG in free speech battle, News & Observer, December 17, 2005
- Commentary & News Briefs, Agape Press, December 2, 2005
- FIRE criticizes honor society, The Badger Herald (UW-Madison), December 1, 2005
- Free-Speech Group Questions Phi Beta Kappa's Commitment to Academic Freedom, The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 30, 2005
- Quick Takes, Inside Higher Ed, November 30, 2005
- Students to protest UNCG’s free speech zones, Yes! Weekly (Greensboro, N.C.), November 15, 2005
- Trumping Moses and Matthew, Syndicated Column, November 7, 2005
- WVU labeled 'red light' school over free speech, Times West Virginian, September 24, 2005
- They also serve who stand and criticize, Chicago Sun-Times, July 3, 2005
- Consulting All Sides on "Speech Codes", Organization of American Historians Newsletter, May 1, 2005
Recent Media Coverage of West Virginia University
- This Month in FIRE History: The End of a Free Speech Zone at West Virginia University, December 28, 2009
- Free Speech Zones, Past and Present, July 10, 2007
- WVU Newspaper on Presidential Candidate’s Free Speech Record, April 10, 2007
- Emmett Hogan on 2006: The More Things Change...?, January 5, 2007
- Zoning Out Free Speech at Joliet Junior College, January 4, 2007
- The Trouble with Free Speech Zones, June 24, 2005
- Calls for Censorship in Texas, February 21, 2005
- This Month in FIRE History: FIRE Declares Free Speech Should Not Be Quarantined to Tiny ‘Free Speech Zones’, February 17, 2005
