A Win for Free Speech at Utah Universities
While private universities have the right to impose limits on the free speech opportunities of their students, government-funded universities must allow students to exercise their rights to speech without any intervention unless...
HB 159: Free Speech on Campus Does Not Equal Harassment
This bill would restrict a university's ability to adopt overly broad or vague harassment codes that could be used to punish constitutionally protected speech.
HB 139: Government Employees Can Skip College
This bill would require government agencies to no longer require a college degree as a condition of employment.
The Future of Education
As Utah and other states begin to re-open and recover from the COVID-19 crisis, we have an opportunity to reflect on some of the potentially positive outcomes of the massive disruption on education. This is a field that has...
HB 158: Free Speech on Campus Does Not Equal Harassment
This bill would restrict a university's ability to adopt overly broad or vague harassment codes that could be used to punish constitutionally protected speech.
SB 102: A Better Way to Fund Higher Education Building Projects
This bill requires a new funding model for higher education institutions to minimize incentives to create expansive and expensive new buildings.
HB 287: Criminalizing Consensual Sexual Activity
This bill would criminalize professors, teaching assistants and those in positions of power at higher education institutions if they engage in sexual activity with a student.
HB 387: Lifting the Curtain Off of Higher Education
This bill requires that each higher education institution's "full budget, including a comprehensive chart of accounts" be reported to legislators in a public meeting.
SB 104: Removing More Money From K-12 Education
Last year $815 million flowed out of the education fund into bloated college and university budgets. This bill takes another $2.5 million and appropriates it for a Higher Education program.