Rutgers University: Student Bar Association Requires Student Groups to Host Ideological Events to Request More Than $250 in Student Fee Funding
Cases
Rutgers University - Camden
Case Overview
FIRE Victory closed
In the fall 2020 semester, the Rutgers Law School, Camden Campus Student Bar Association amended its constitution to require all student groups to hold events addressing 鈥渢opics through the lens of Critical Race Theory, diversity and inclusion, or cultural competency鈥 to be eligible for more than $250 in student activity fee funding. On May 17, FIREwrote to Rutgers calling for the university to rescind this requirement, which compelled student groups to engage in speech on political and social concerns in a viewpoint-discriminatory manner. After receiving 果冻传媒app官方鈥檚 letter, the Student Bar Association announced that it had rescinded the requirement.