official sanction
Defined in 1 place of the United States Code.
The term “official sanction”—
(A) means expulsion, suspension, probation, censure, condemnation, reprimand, or any other disciplinary, coercive, or adverse action taken by an institution of higher education or administrative unit of the institution; and
(B) includes an oral or written warning made by an official of an institution of higher education acting in the official capacity of the official.
Source
- 1998–present20 U.S.C. § 1011AEducation · Protection of student speech and association rights · for the purposes of this section