Student Press Freedom Day

The Signal is dedicated to informing, engaging and educating its audience about the purpose and value of student press on campus.

From prior review to COVID to the impact of being a student journalist of color, here are the stories of student journalists at UHCL.

However, no issue is as threatening and damaging as university administration, faculty and staff demanding a prior review of our articles. 

In what has been quite an eventful past few years, topics of race, politics, power and corruption have dominated conversations both in college and beyond. Such events only further make me see what it means, and what it takes, to be a…

The 2021 theme is of Student Press Freedom Day is “Journalism Against the Odds.”

For me, continuing to cover things that include COVID-19 as well as things happening on campus make it easier to find an explanation to what was going on in the world and in the community. It allows me to center myself during such a chaotic…

Years of case law maintain that prior review at the college level is unconstitutional. Despite this, staff, faculty and administrators on this campus routinely try to demand to review content prior to publication. For the most part, this…

On Jan. 30, the Student Press Law Center celebrates Student Press Freedom Day. Without freedoms for a student press like UHCL's The Signal, the content we publish would look different. Here is a redacted version of our editorial "The…