We open the 2025-26 academic year excited about the future of 网曝黑料. We welcome thousands of new students and hundreds of new faculty and staff joining our community for the first time. They will bring new talents, interests and perspectives and join returning colleagues in a learning community unafraid to discover truth and explore solutions to the world鈥檚 most pressing problems. Indeed, our values call upon us to 鈥渆ncourage faculty, students and staff to ask unexpected questions, foster open dialogue and develop innovative solutions to important problems.鈥
We also acknowledge that the 2025-26 academic year opens amidst significant polarization related to international and domestic concerns. The purpose of this letter is to provide notice and clarity as to how our campus will remain faithful to our values while also maintaining a campus environment that supports the rights of all to pursue learning and discovery free of harassment, disruption and intimidation. The framework of our approach is to support and facilitate ample opportunity for expressive activity and campus dialogue around controversial ideas, while simultaneously establishing firm expectations that all such expressive activity must comport with university policies. Toward that end, we call your attention to the following:
- We strongly encourage individuals and groups who plan to use 网曝黑料 as a site for expressive activity to first review the Reservation Guidelines, contact the University Union Office and the New York State University Police. Our staff wants to assist you in ensuring your activity is successful and safe for all.
- 网曝黑料, as with all SUNY campuses, are subject to the . Please be on notice that 网曝黑料 will not hesitate to invoke the Rules and pursue the penalties for violations set forth therein. The Rules for the Maintenance of Public Order apply not only to students but to faculty, staff, organizations and unaffiliated individuals. We urge you to familiarize yourself with this policy before planning or engaging in any demonstration or protest, particularly the prohibited behavior listed in section 1.A.
- 网曝黑料 has established Posting and Chalking Policies. Please be on notice that the campus will fully uphold those policies. Students who willfully violate such policies may be referred to the Office of Student Conduct.
- 网曝黑料 has an established policy governing Camping on Campus. Until further notice, we will not entertain exceptions to the policy, meaning the campus will not permit any form of 鈥渃amping鈥 as defined by the policy.
- 网曝黑料 policy also generally governs the Non-Credit Use of Campus Facilities in several other ways, including policies related to tabling, amplified sound and event scheduling. Please consult this policy as well prior to planning or participating in any expressive activity, protest or demonstration.
As acknowledged above, we intend not only to uphold our policies but to defend and promote our values. Campus staff and faculty are actively engaged in several initiatives to create contexts that support civil dialogue around controversial ideas within the boundaries of our policies. While not an exhaustive list, we note the following specific examples:
- Around 1,000 students will complete online and in-person workshops focused on building skills to engage in better conversations through our First Year Experience.
- Principles of Community: The Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion facilitated the adoption of Principles of Community that will be visibly promoted on campus throughout the year.
- Student Dialogue Ambassadors have received more advanced training on facilitating dialogue and will host conversations within their communities on campus. A new cohort of Ambassadors will be recruited and trained very soon.
- Civil Dialogue Teaching Fellows: The Fellows program will guide faculty in designing and implementing course content that facilitates student practice of civil dialogue. Fifteen faculty have been accepted into the inaugural cohort.
- Civil Dialogue Faculty Teaching and Research Grants: These grants will provide funding to support faculty-led teaching and research related to civil dialogue.
Without the right to express ideas 鈥 especially controversial ideas 鈥 education and
discovery are limited; dialogue is restricted and our capacity to educate engaged
citizens is compromised. For those reasons and our obligations as a public university
to respect the First Amendment, we place a high value on freedom of expression, association
and assembly. No right, however, is absolute. 网曝黑料 will not permit protest and
expression that disrupts the University鈥檚 academic mission, interferes with the free
expression of others or threatens members of the campus community or campus property.
We urge all of you to accept your responsibility to maintain a campus environment
that respects those boundaries. In that way, we can be a model for other universities
to follow through with our willingness to confront difficult questions in a community
with the maturity and perspective to respect the rights of all to a supportive learning
community.
Donald Hall
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Brian Rose
Vice President of Student Affairs
JoAnn Navarro
Vice President for Operations
Karen Jones
Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion