Palomar College

http://www.palomar.edu/Facman.pdf
Faculty Manual
Page 95 under Academic Freedom
Academic freedom involves inherently the following rights and responsibilities:

• "To introduce within the assigned teaching area controversial concepts, issues, and systems, subjecting these ideas to the test of objective reasoning."
• "To create an unhampered and clear intellectual atmosphere, democratically maintained, encouraged, and supported by students, staff, administration, and members of the Governing Board."

• "Palomar College believes that the "Statement on Professional Ethics," promulgated by the American Association of University Professors and adopted by the California Academic Senate, serves as a reminder of the variety of obligations assumed by all members of the academic profession." (see AAUP statement above)
• "As teachers, faculty members encourage the free pursuit of learning in their students. They hold before them the best scholarly standards of their discipline. Faculty members demonstrate respect for the student as an individual and adhere to their proper role as intellectual guides and counselors. Faculty members make every reasonable effort to foster honest academic conduct and to assure that evaluation of students reflects their true merit. They respect the confidential nature of the relationship between faculty member and student. They avoid any exploitation of students for advantage and acknowledge significant assistance from them. They protect the academic freedom of students."

• "The major role of education in America is to produce an individual who can contribute to society as a well-informed member of a democracy. Competence in critical thinking empowers the college student with the ability to distinguish opinions from fact and belief from knowledge."

Pennsylvania State University

http://guru.psu.edu/POLICIES/OHR/hr64.html
Policy HR64 Academic Freedom
In the Classroom

• "The faculty member is entitled to freedom in the classroom in discussing his/her subject. The faculty member is, however, responsible for the maintenance of appropriate standards of scholarship and teaching ability. It is not the function of a faculty member in a democracy to indoctrinate his/her students with ready-made conclusions on controversial subjects. The faculty member is expected to train students to think for themselves, and to provide them access to those materials which they need if they are to think intelligently. Hence, in giving instruction upon controversial matters the faculty member is expected to be of a fair and judicial mind, and to set forth justly, without supersession or innuendo, the divergent opinions of other investigators.
  
  "No faculty member may claim as a right the privilege of discussing in the classroom controversial topics outside his/her own field of study. The faculty member is normally bound not to take advantage of his/her position by introducing into the classroom provocative discussions of irrelevant subjects not within the field of his/her study."

• II. "As teachers, professors encourage the free pursuit of learning in their students. They hold before their students the best scholarly standards of their respective disciplines. They demonstrate respect for the student as an individual, and adhere to their proper role as intellectual guides and counselors. They make every reasonable effort to foster honest academic conduct and to assure that their evaluations of students reflect the students' true merit. They respect the confidential nature of the relationship between professor and student. They avoid any exploitation of students for private advantage and acknowledge significant assistance from them. They protect their students' academic freedom."

Princeton University

http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/rrr/02/01.htm
Under Introduction:

• "The central purposes of a University are the pursuit of truth, the discovery of new knowledge through scholarship and research, the teaching and general development of students, and the transmission of knowledge and learning to society at large. Free inquiry and free expression within the academic community are indispensable to the achievement of these goals. The freedom to teach and to learn depends upon the creation of appropriate conditions and opportunities on the campus as a whole as well as in classrooms and lecture halls. All members of the academic community share the responsibility for securing and sustaining the general conditions conducive to this freedom."

Purdue University

http://www.purdue.edu/oop/faculty_staff_handbook/pages/polpro/ac_ad_pro/fac_pol_ac_free.html
Academic Freedom

• "It is the established and firm policy of Purdue University to provide, protect, and promote an environment of academic and intellectual freedom of scientific inquiry and publication and the freedom and responsibility of teachers to acquaint their students with the various sides of controversial subjects within their fields of subject-matter competency. In formally organized classes, lectures, seminars, etc., dealing with specific phases of academic instruction, members of the teaching staff may not subject students to their particular views and opinions concerning matters not related to the course of instruction itself. Faculty members are presumed to be competent authorities in the subject matter of their formally organized courses of instruction; in other matters they are merely citizens and within the organized classrooms of the University have no right to inflict their views and opinions on issues extraneous to the course of instruction."