SIUE officials must pay $80,000 and take free speech class to settle lawsuit
University ostracized student with ‘no-contact orders’
Three professors at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will take training on the First Amendment in order to settle a lawsuit from a conservative Christian graduate student who alleged discrimination.
The settlement won by Alliance Defending Freedom also required SIUE officials “to revise both their policies and student handbook to ensure students with varying political, religious, and ideological views are welcome in the art therapy program” and pay $80,000, according to a news release from the legal nonprofit.
ADF’s victory on behalf of Maggie DeJong came a little over a year after the art therapy student sued her university after it issued “no-contact orders” against her and asked her peers to report her for “harmful rhetoric.”
ADF attorney Mathew Hoffmann said SIUE was “wrong to issue gag orders and silence her speech.”
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