For many college seniors, whose high school celebrations were upended by the pandemic, this year was their first time to experience the time-honored rituals of graduation: jubilant crowds, caps tossed high — and, of course, commencement speeches.

The First Amendment’s protections are significant, only allowing a government or university to punish students for speech in narrow circumstances.

Every year, celebrities, businesspeople, politicians, artists, and more get asked to address a graduating class in a commencement speech. The moment, which is usually equally exciting to the honoree as it is to the university, can shape how the graduates ...

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY – Columbia University students shared mixed reactions to their college ranking last for free speech on campus, with some expressing confusion while also shunning hate speech. "I think everyone here is very open-minded, and so I'm not ...

The penalties for violations prescribed in this bill would put the financial health of our universities at serious risk,’ UW system official says.

U niversities are facing a tsunami of federal enforcement actions and private litigation stemming from their responses — or their lack of one — to campus protests. Some universities still do not realize how legally exposed they are. Their own speech ...

Harris "sought to infuse the words of others with her own emotional valence,” Smith College President Sarah Willie-LeBreton said Smith College/Facebook Musician Evelyn Harris has been accused of plagiarizing parts of a commencement speech she delivered ...

One should never fight a multifront war by choice, the old wisdom goes, but progressives in North Texas don’t have much choice in the matter. School dramas have sprouted like bluebonnets across the Dallas–Fort Worth area these past eight months.

College students will soon be returning to campus, many with a new and growing awareness of campus codes regulating speech and behavior. Meanwhile, administrators continue to reexamine these codes as they walk a tightrope between the constitutionally ...