California Community Colleges

http://www.academicsenate.cc.ca.us/Publications/Papers/Tenure.htm

• "Therefore be it resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges adopt the "AAUP 1940 statement of Principles of Academic Freedom", Sections (a), (b), (c)..."

California State University, Chico

http://www.csuchico.edu/hr/Documents/VPHR-FPPP.pdf
Faculty Personnel Policies and Procedures
2.1 Faculty Code of Professional Ethics

• "High ethical standards are best maintained in an environment in which all persons are respected, regardless of power, position, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, social orientation, race, developmental disability, personal value structure, or any other extraneous characteristic that is irrelevant to the free and scholarly exchange of ideas."

• "The primary responsibility of faculty to disciplines is to seek and to state the truth as they see it. To this end faculty develop and improve their scholarly competence. They practice intellectual honesty and accept the obligation to exercise critical self-discipline and judgment in using, extending, and transmitting knowledge. Although they may follow subsidiary interests, these interests never hamper or compromise their freedom of inquiry or the dissemination of knowledge. Faculty assiduously avoid any behavior that would interfere with the goals of, or bring dishonor to, the discipline."

• "Faculty encourage the free pursuit of knowledge by their students. Toward this end, they promote an environment that is conducive to the open exchange of ideas, one in which the student is respected as an individual. They hold before students the best scholarly standards, both generally and within their disciplines, encouraging students to embrace those standards and guiding their efforts to meet them. They protect their students' academic freedom while fostering honest academic conduct. Faculty evaluations of students reflect true academic merit...."

• 2.2.2 "Teachers are entitled to freedom in the classroom in discussing their subjects, but they should be careful not to introduce into their teaching controversial matter that has no relation to the subject."

California State University, Fresno

http://www.csufresno.edu/aps/apm/103.pdf
Academic Freedom Statement

• "The university is to be an open forum for ideas and issues to be raised, challenged, and tested."
• "The 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure with 1970 Interpretative Notes." (Endorses AAUP academic freedom statement)

• "The university encourages and protects free inquiry and expression, ensuring a forum for the generation, discussion and critical examination of ideas."

• "The standard of professional conduct to which all faculty members at this university are expected to adhere, and that is premised on academic freedom and academic responsibility and consistent with the AAUP Statement on Professional Ethics,..." (Endorses AAUP professional ethics statement)

California State University, Long Beach

http://www.csulb.edu/~senate/Policies/00-07.html
Policy on Faculty Professional Responsibility (adapted from the AAUP "Statement on Professional Ethics")

http://www.csulb.edu/divisions/acadaffs/Academic_Personnel/FORMS/PDFs/2001FacultyHandbook.pdf
Faculty Handbook (read pages 27-28)

California State University, Los Angeles

http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/senate/handbook/ch6.htm#academic
(Incorporates many AAUP statements)

California State University, Northridge

http://www.csun.edu/~facacct/policies/manuals/section_600_2003.pdf
Under Section 604 Professional Responsibility
604.2 As a teacher, the professor:

• "encourages the free pursuit of learning in students."
• "holds before students the discipline's best scholarly standards."
• "demonstrates respect for the student as an individual."
• "adheres to a proper role as an intellectual guide and counselor."
• "does not participate in the formal evaluation of any student or in any institutional decisions involving a direct benefit to a student who is a member of his or her immediate family, a blood relative, or with whom he or she has an economic, sexual and/or romantic involvement which could reasonably be perceived as impairing objectivity."
• "makes every reasonable effort to foster honest academic conduct."
• "makes every reasonable effort to assure that evaluations of students reflect their true merit and are based on their academic performance professionally judged and not on matters irrelevant to that performance, such as personality, degree of political activism, personal beliefs, race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, or age."
• "treats students with civility, understanding and respect and does not denigrate, humiliate or stigmatize students on the basis of race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, or age."
• "makes every reasonable effort to assure that all students are treated with civility, understanding and respect whenever the professor has responsibility for students and is acting in a professorial, professional and/or mentoring role and that students do not denigrate, humiliate or stigmatize other students on the basis of race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry or age."
• "respects the confidential nature of the relationship between professor and student."
• "does not refuse to enroll or teach students on the grounds of their beliefs or the possible uses to which they may put the knowledge to be gained in a course."
• "refrains from forcing students by the authority inherent in the instructional role to make particular personal choices as to political action or their own part in society."
• "presents the subject matter of a course as announced to students and as approved by the faculty in their collective responsibility for the curriculum."
• "allows students the freedom to take reasoned exception to the data or views offered in a course of study and to reserve judgment about matters of opinion."
• "avoids an exploitation of students for private advantage."

California State University, Sacramento

http://www.csus.edu/admbus/umanual/UMF04525.htm
Statement on Faculty Responsibilities and Professional Ethics

• "For each course, faculty will 1) provide a syllabus and adhere to it..."

• "Professors, guided by a deep conviction of the worth and dignity of the advancement of knowledge, recognize the special responsibilities placed upon them. Their primary responsibility to their subject is to seek and to state the truth as they see it. To this end professors devote their energies to developing and improving their scholarly competence. They accept the obligation to exercise critical self-discipline and judgment in using, extending, and transmitting knowledge. They practice intellectual honesty. Although professors may follow subsidiary interests, these interests must never seriously hamper or compromise their freedom on inquiry."
• "As teachers, professors encourage the free pursuit of learning in their students. They hold before them the best scholarly and ethical standards of their discipline. Professors demonstrate respect for students as individuals and adhere to their proper roles as intellectual guides and counselors. Professors make every reasonable effort to foster honest academic conduct and to assure that their evaluations of students reflect each student^Òs true merit. They respect the confidential nature of the relationship between professor and student. They avoid any exploitation, harassment, or discriminatory treatment of students. They acknowledge significant academic or scholarly assistance from them. They protect their academic freedom."

California State University, San Marcos

http://www.csusm.edu/academic_programs/catalog/2002-04_Catalog/academic_regulations_and_graduation_requirements.htm
(Scroll down to "academic freedom")

• "Education depends upon the free expression and exchange of ideas in the search for truth. Academic freedom is the freedom to express any view, popular or unpopular, and to defend that point of view in open exchange. The University supports freedom of speech, inquiry, and expression for all members of its faculty, students, ..."
• "Teachers are entitled to freedom in the classroom in presenting material related to the content of the course, but shall refrain from insisting that students or others accept any controversial point of view as authoritative."

Clemson University

http://www.lib.clemson.edu/fs/FacultyManual/FMPARTIII.pdf
Faculty Manual
Part III The Faculty

• Clemson adheres to the 1940 AAUP Statement on Academic Freedom (see above).

• "Their scholarship and mastery of their subjects entitles faculty to hold teaching positions and to enjoy freedom in the presentation of those subjects in the classroom. Thus it is inappropriate and improper for faculty persistently to intrude materials unrelated to their subjects into their teaching. It is likewise a violation of professional responsibility to fail to present the subject matter of a course as announced to students and as approved by the faculty in its collective responsibility for the curriculum."
• "Membership in the academic community imposes upon students, faculty members, administrators, and trustees an obligation to respect the dignity of others, to acknowledge their right to express differing opinions, and to foster and defend intellectual honesty, freedom of inquiry and instruction, and free expression on and off the campus."
• "Faculty members have responsibilities to their students. They shall encourage in students the free pursuit of learning and independence of mind, while holding before them the highest scholarly and professional standards. Faculty shall show respect for the student as an individual and shall adhere to their proper role as intellectual guides and counselors. They shall make every reasonable effort to foster honest academic conduct and to ensure that their evaluation of each student reflects, as nearly as possible, the true worth of the student's academic performance, regardless of considerations of race, creed, gender, or personal beliefs."

Cleveland State University

http://www.csuohio.edu/faculty_senate/fpp81.html#3
CSU Personnel Policies
8.1.3 Academic Freedom

• "Cleveland State University subscribes to the 1940 'Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure' of the American Association of University Professors and the Association of American Colleges (as shown in Attachment A, 8.1.12)."

• "Commitment to the principles of freedom of speech and inquiry for faculty and students alike speaks directly to the academic integrity of a university. For faculty, academic freedom is provided and preserved in both the faculty personnel policies, and the collective bargaining agreement with the AAUP both of which incorporate language from the 1940 'Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure' of the American Association of University Professors and the Association of American Colleges. The Student Handbook grants to students 'the right of expression,' and rights 'to be free from discrimination...'"

College of the Redwoods

http://www.redwoods.edu/district/board/policies/bp/BP326.Htm
Academic Freedom

• "The Board of Trustees and the Academic Senate of the College of the Redwoods District, in an effort to promote and protect the academic freedom of faculty and students, endorse the following policy adapted from the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure (including the 1958 and 1970 interpretative comments of the American Association of University Professors)."
• "Faculty members are entitled to freedom in the classroom in discussing issues germane to their academic discipline. Academic freedom inherently involves the right to introduce within the assigned teaching discipline controversial topics, concepts, issues, and systems as long as the method or manner of presentation involves objective reasoning and rational discussion."

• "Freedom of speech and assembly and an educated citizenry are the cornerstones of democracy. An educational institution in a society governed according to these principles has a special responsibility to educate its students and its community so that free discussion, assembly, and the curious mind will remain viable instruments of intelligent self-direction."
• "The college community must provide an atmosphere in which its citizenry can examine ideas and learn to discriminate among them. Such discriminations can be made only on the basis of free inquiry, which entails the analysis of issues, the weighing of evidence, and the recognition of fact and fallacy. The cultivation of such inquiry is a special responsibility of the school, the assumption being that truth will prevail in the marketplace of ideas."
• "For these reasons freedom of speech and assembly will be encouraged at College of the Redwoods as the fundamental prerequisites of free inquiry and free discussion. In keeping with these basic American principles, students, faculty members, and administrators are free to bring to the campus a diversity of viewpoints reflecting the variety of opinions to be found in our society as a whole."
• "These freedoms are accompanied by responsibilities, both legal and academic. All in the college community have the responsibility of assuring that an open atmosphere prevails on campus, that the expression of any shade of opinion is respected, that speakers are not interrupted or harassed, and that language, acts, or displays that would seriously offend significant numbers of people be avoided as being a deterrent to meaningful dialogue and growth."
• "All in the college community must remember that the disruption of the normal functions of any class, meeting, office, or facility, the threat of intimidation or physical coercion, and the use of libelous or purely obscene language, acts, or displays are not allowed by law and are, therefore, not protected by this policy of freedom of speech."
• "Students who neglect to observe these principles shall be subject to suspension or expulsion under the district student code of conduct or applicable penal code sections. Faculty members who disregard these guidelines are subject to appropriate professional action. The Board, through the administration, will enforce the applicable laws."

Columbia University

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/vpaa/fhb/c7/intro.html
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/vpaa/fhb/app/app_b.html
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/vpaa/fhb/app/app_e.html (ethics)
From ethics statement:

• "Every effort must therefore be made to be accurate, to be objective, to demonstrate appropriate restraint, and to show respect for the opinions of others."
• "Evaluation of students and awards of grade and credit must be based on academic performance professionally judged, not on matters extraneous to that performance; ..."

Cornell University

http://www.cornell.edu/CUHomePage/Mission.html

• "Free expression is essential to this mission, and provocative ideas lawfully presented are an expected result. An enlightened academic community, however, connects freedom with responsibility. Cornell stands for civil discourse, reasoned thought, sustained discussion and constructive engagement without degrading, abusing, harassing, or silencing others. Cornell is committed to act responsibly and forthrightly to maintain an environment that opens doors, opens hearts and opens minds."

• "Freedom to teach and to learn, to express oneself and to be heard, ... are essential to academic freedom and the continuing function of the University as an educational institution."