Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3354:1 - Cuyahoga Community College › Chapter 3354:1-60 › Section 3354:1-60-03 - Free Speech Policy

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
Cuyahoga Community College is committed to providing a
				workplace and educational environment that allows for the free dissemination of
				knowledge by means of research, teaching, discussion and debate. It is the
				proper role of an institution of higher education to encourage diversity of
				thoughts, ideas, and opinions and to encourage, within the bounds of the First
				Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the peaceful, respectful,
				and safe exercise of First Amendment rights. To ensure compliance with federal
				and state laws and public policy and to affirm its commitment to promoting the
				goals of fairness and equity in all aspects of the College community, the
				College hereby adopts policies and procedures which will provide a prompt,
				fair, and impartial process to ensure the fullest degree of intellectual
				freedom and free expression allowed under the First Amendment to the
				Constitution of the United States and the Ohio Constitution.
A. Definitions
1) "Time, Place, and Manner Restrictions"
			 means restrictions on the time, place, and manner of free speech that do not
			 violate the First Amendment to the United States Constitution or Article I,
			 Sections 3 and 11 of the Ohio Constitution that are reasonable, content- and
			 viewpoint-neutral, narrowly tailored to satisfy a significant institutional
			 interest, and leave open ample alternative channels for the communication of
			 the information or message to its intended audience.
2) "Faculty" means any person who is tasked
			 with providing scholarship, academic research or teaching and includes tenured
			 and nontenured professors, adjunct professors, visiting professors, lecturers,
			 and those in comparable positions, however titled, but not those persons whose
			 primary responsibilities are administrative or managerial.
3) "Student" has the same definition as used
			 in the Student Conduct Code, 3354-1-30-03.5.
4) "Student group" means an officially
			 recognized group at a state institution of higher education, or a group seeking
			 official recognition, comprised of admitted students that receive, or are
			 seeking to receive, benefits through the institution of higher
			 education.
5) "Free Speech" means
			 speech, expression, or assemblies protected by the First Amendment to the
			 United States Constitution or Article I, Sections 3 and 11 of the Ohio
			 Constitution, verbal, written, audiovisual, or by electronic means by which
			 individuals may communicate ideas, including, but not limited to: all forms of
			 peaceful assembly, protests, demonstrations, rallies, vigils, marches, public
			 speeches, distribution of literature, carrying and displaying signs, or
			 circulating petitions. "Free speech" does not include the promotion, sale, or
			 distribution of any product or service, or any action that falls within the
			 College's policy against distribution and solicitation, 3354:1-20-03(E-F)
Operations Policy
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