Seven months after it was approved by the Board of Regents, a University of Minnesota directive on institutional speech that was implemented amid campus turmoil over the war in Gaza continues to draw fire from the faculty.

Regents were slated to discuss the policy at their October meeting but opted not to do so, despite having received several reports from academic groups concerned about its impact on the university community and compliance with free speech rights. “There was no response even to our report, let alone a serious engagement,” said William Jones, president of the university’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).

Passed by regents on a 9-3 vote in March and crafted in the wake of campus protests over the war in Gaza, the measure states that “in

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