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David Hacker: Allocating student activity fees based on clear standards

By Alliance Alert

ADF Attorney David J. Hacker writing at Speak Up Movement / University: "Today?s post will provide principles that student fee allocation committees can rely upon when distributing fees and insight for student groups to determine if their rights are being violated (and they just don?t know it) . . . The funding criteria should not be vague or unclear. They should be specific and objective, leaving little room for subjective interpretation of a student group?s activities or reasons for requesting funding. The criteria also cannot be based on how long the group has existed on campus nor how much funding the group received in prior years, because these things relate to the popularity of the group and lead to viewpoint discrimination. Criteria can examine how many people will attend the event for the purpose of determining how much pizza to fund, but they cannot veer into the popularity of the group (something I will discuss more in my next post)."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 25, 2010 (boomark / email).