Missouri State University has accelerated the process of shutting down its Bias Response Team amid a lawsuit brought by ...

T he past decade has seen an explosion of “bias-response teams” (BRTs) on college campuses. (Some campuses opt for other variants, like “bias-education team” or “bias-support team,” less aggressively ...

Missouri State University said its decision to disband the Bias Response Team was made in March and "predates any litigation.

The Bias Impact Response Group (BIRG) was established in 2024 to give key campus stakeholders a mechanism to quickly assemble to address incidents of bias. BIRG helps ensure that affected parties have ...

In Speech First, Inc. v. Sands, the Court vacated the Fourth Circuit's decision upholding Virginia Tech's Bias Intervention and Response Team Policy, on the grounds that the case had become moot.

The Supreme Court declined to wade into the constitutionality of college bias response teams Monday, dismissing as moot a request to take up such a case involving Virginia Tech. Speech First, a group ...

Over the past decade, bias response teams have proliferated on college campuses. A survey conducted in 2016 concluded that bias response teams (BRT) existed on “at least 231 campuses” across the ...

Over the dissents of two justices, the U.S. Supreme Court is declining to take up a case about whether educational institutions’ bias-reporting policies targeting hateful or derogatory speech have a ...

Over 450 U.S. colleges and universities, public and private, maintain some form of a reporting system aimed at policing campus speech, according to a new report from a campus free speech organization.

In recent years, colleges have introduced "bias hotlines," allowing any student to report a perceived offense -- leading to a rash of subjective complaints and a chilling effect on campus free speech.