Boston College

Location: Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Website: http://www.bc.edu

Speech Code Rating

Boston College has been given a speech code rating of Red. You may read more about this institution's speech codes at this page.

FIRE Cases at Boston College

• Boston College: Controversial Speaker Disinvited
• Boston College: Red Light Rating

Recent Media Coverage of Boston College

• BC and the Belfast Project: A Scholar's Privilege to Disobey, Forbes.com, July 23, 2012
• Boston College puts pressure on student newspaper, U-Wire, December 1, 2003

Posts to The Torch About Boston College

• Dorm Room Search Thrown Out of Court, November 18, 2010
• Boston College Fails to Live Up to Its Free Speech Promises, Earns Dishonorable 'Red Light' Rating, August 7, 2009
• Massachusetts High Court Strikes Down Boston College Dorm Search Originating in Legal E-Mails, June 5, 2009
• Greg in ‘Huffington Post’ on ‘Hell Week for Campus Free Speech’, April 3, 2009
• At Boston College, April Fool's Flyer Prompts Censorship, Punishment, April 4, 2008
• Silverglate: Universities Take Over Alumni Magazines, November 17, 2006
• SPLC Reports on Boston College Newspaper Controversy, September 25, 2006
• Boston College Administrator Destroys Thousands of Copies of Student Paper over Article, September 18, 2006
• More Bad News for Student Press Freedom, September 27, 2005