University of California Bans Political Statements From Department Homepages

Published on July 19, 2024

The University of California’s Board of Regents has overwhelmingly voted to ban academic departments from posting political statements on their website homepages. The policy takes effect immediately following its approval by the governing board on July 18 in a 13–1 vote. Under the new rule, the main homepage of a campus department, division, or other academic unit of the University of California (UC) system will be reserved for information about course offerings, campus activities, traditional mission statements, or other news and events related to faculty research and teaching. Academic units can still release “discretionary statements,” which are defined as those that “are not part of the day-to-day, term-to-term operations of the unit, and that comment on institutional, local, regional, global or national events, activities or issues,” the new policy states....

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