The Bias Impact Response Group (BIRG) was established in 2024 to give key campus stakeholders a mechanism to quickly assemble to address incidents of bias. BIRG helps ensure that affected parties have ...

T he past decade has seen an explosion of “bias-response teams” (BRTs) on college campuses. (Some campuses opt for other variants, like “bias-education team” or “bias-support team,” less aggressively ...

Over 450 U.S. colleges and universities, public and private, maintain some form of a reporting system aimed at policing campus speech, according to a new report from a campus free speech organization.

As stated in its Notice of Nondiscrimination, Smith College is committed to maintaining a diverse community in an atmosphere of mutual respect and appreciation of differences. The purpose of the Bias ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider whether university "bias-response teams" chill students' speech ...

Over the dissents of two justices, the U.S. Supreme Court is declining to take up a case about whether educational institutions’ bias-reporting policies targeting hateful or derogatory speech have a ...

WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal challenging a "bias-response team" at Virginia Tech, avoiding a roiling debate over campus speech that has pit First Amendment claims ...