Case Study: Collin College

Students are protected by the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment right granting the freedom of speech. However those freedoms are limited as Justice Fortas explains as follows:

Southern University A&M College welcomed Dr. J.S. Clark as the new African American leader and president in 1914 after the big move. As Dr. Clark as president, he made numerous improvements on campus and off campus. He established a Junior College, teacher-training curriculum, Agricultural Extension Program, a summer normal school, six brick buildings for instructional activities, five brick dormitories, and eleven wooden structures for the faculties. Before his retirement came, he funded money from the government to build a library, a football stadium, an administration building, a gymnasium, and additional dormitories. During this time period, Felton G. Clark, J.S. Clark only son, was one of Southern’s most promising

Not all individuals with disabilities are protected by the ADA. To be protected, individuals with disabilities must show that they are otherwise

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) made a statement “On Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes,” 1994, which states, “In response to verbal assaults and use of hateful language some campuses have felt it necessary to forbid the expression of racist, sexist, homophobic, or ethnically demeaning speech, along with conduct or behavior that harasses…”

Almost all colleges and universities are subject to the ADA, section 504 or both. The Americans with disabilities ACT or ADA provides a broad range of protections in employment, public services and accommodation for individuals with disabilities. The ADA is enforced by The Department of Justice, Department of Labor and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. This law prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals who have a disability, solely based on that specific disability in any program that receives federal assistance from the government. Section 504 is enforced by “Office for Civil Rights at The Department of Education”

One of the most landmark cases on free speech was Schenck v. United States in 1919 where Charles Schenck mailed letters to draftees of World War 1 stating that the draft was wrong and to “not submit to intimidation”. The court concluded that Schenck was not protected under the 1st amendment in this situation because it was an attempt interfere with the draft which is a criminal offense. More specifically, there has been many cases involving college speech in the 1st amendment. There has been times where college speech has been restricted through history and times where it has been encouraged. College is a place where student speech should be open but also respected. There are many famous court cases involving fan profanity, student clubs, the newspaper, on college campuses. One of the first college speech cases was Sweezy v New Hampshire where the court had to decide if the Attorney General of New Hampshire could prosecute an individual who refused to answer questions about a lecture he gave on a college campus. The court ruled in favor of Sweezy. College speech became an issue ever since that

While the First Amendment does protect the right to freedom of speech, university officials have some authority in defining the limitations of freedom of speech and press on a campus setting. However, this mostly applies to private colleges, as students enrolled in public universities often receive protection under the First

Prior to 1975, public schools had the right to deny any student with disabilities access to school, and

Issue: Does the First Amendment protect a student from disciplinary action if the student gives a lewd speech at an assembly?

The student used a 19-century federal civil rights law knowns as Section 1983 to get into the court. The law permits private lawsuits, for damages or injunctions of the Constitution or federal laws. It was the between relationship of the Buckley Amendment and Section 1983. The University specialist broke FERPA, which prohibit the federal funding of educational institution to release educational records to unauthorized persons. The Washington court agrees with plaintiff and reward student with $

Our education system is a strong and mighty machine composed of standards for greater knowledge and understanding. This holds true for the California State University of Fullerton as it is a very selective public institution. However, in recent events, it has come into the crosshairs for a battle often fought by professors and academic freedom. Associate Professor Alain Bourget had an issue with the math class he was teaching. The math book was way too expensive and hardly relevant to the needs of the students. Bourget decided to use a much cheaper and more relevant math book for his class. In doing so, he ended up with a written reprimand and was threatened with dismissal. Now the university and its

Under Student Rights Section # 2 C. "The right to be free from discriminating on a basis of race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, creed, national origin, disability, or sexual orientation/identify. Alexis has a documented learning disability called Irlen Syndrome. It is not up to Instructor Espin to make the determination if Alexis needs additional time. This would also be a violation of "The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (1990) The ADA is a civil rights laws that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities

This issue happened on Feburary 14th, 2016. The school charge us “Disruptive Conduct- Disrupting the regular or normal functions of the Arkansas State University Community, including behavior which breaches the peace, limits the safety or violates the rights of others. Breaching the peace includes but is not limited to high volume speech that may or may not be offensive or inflammatory that can be heard in common areas of buildings such as hallways, lobbies or the cafeteria.”

The article “The Struggle to Make Online Courses Accessible in Higher Education” by Tanya Roscorla on Ray Schroeder’s Online Learning Update Blog states that “According to the Americans with Disabilities Act, online courses should be made accessible to students with disabilities”…”But since the ADA has not provided any specific accommodation standards, it's up to each school to decide to what extent it will serve its students with disabilities” (Roscorla 1). The problem with this policy is that it leaves the standards up to each school, so not only are the standards going to vary between schools but there is also no way to monitor and enforce the standards. The policy really does nothing but state that schools should be accommodating to all students, but this does not always happen. The other problem is other than this policy that has no real authority to it, there is not anything else for students with disabilities in online classes. The Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act is a general act that requires federal agencies to make their electronic information accessible to people with disabilities. However, this Act was passed in 1973 and technology

I am the attorney for Defendant, Professor Faden. Fair use is the doctrine that brief excerpts of copyrighted material may, under certain circumstances, be quoted verbatim for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research, without the need for permission from or payment to the copyright holder.One can copyright any original work of authorship that can be "fixed in any tangible medium of expression," such as written on paper, or encoded on disk or tape, or recorded on film. This includes fiction and nonfiction writings, poetry, musical compositions (words and music alike), sound recordings, photographs, paintings and drawings, sculpture, architectural works, databases, audiovisual works such as movies, and multimedia works