Saddleback College

http://www.saddleback.edu/gov/senate/acsen/acsen/ethics.html
Faculty Code of Ethics and Professional Standards

• "As teachers, professors encourage the free pursuit of learning in their students. They hold before them the best scholarly and ethical standards of their disciplines. They 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 ensure that their evaluations of students reflect each student's 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." (American Association of University Professors Statement, 1990)
• "Faculty treat all students with fairness and respect."
• "Faculty encourage the free exchange of ideas between themselves and students."
• "Faculty conscientiously strive to be fair and balanced in their evaluation of student work."

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

http://www.smumn.edu/sitepages/pid144.php
Academic Freedom Policy

• "As an institution of higher education it [Saint Mary's] exists for the common good which depends upon the free search for truth and its free expression."
• "It is essential to maintain academic freedom for both students and faculty."

• "Consistent with the mission of Saint Mary's University, all Graduate and Special programs expect their graduates to be able to...Demonstrate critical thinking skills..."

San Diego State University

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/senate/policy/pffaculty.html
Under Professional Responsibilities

• 2.0 "The faculty of San Diego State University shall subscribe to the 1987 Statement on Professional Ethics (1987) by the American Association of University Professors (http///www.aaup.org/)."

• 3.38 ""Proceedings shall be conducted in accordance with the American Association of University Professors' Joint Statement on Rights and Freedoms of Students (1967)."
• "Students should be free to take reasoned exception to the data or views offered in any course of study and to reserve judgment about matters of opinion, but they are responsible for learning the content of any course of study for which they are enrolled."

San Francisco State University

http://www.sfsu.edu/~acaffrs/facman/append-1.htm#769
Guidelines for Academic Freedom and Responsibility

• "Faculty members, as well as students, are free to hold and express opinions about material offered in their courses, and this right must not be impinged on by threats, force, or other intimidation."
• "Students have the right to disagree with the conduct or content of courses and to seek change, but such freedom does not include the right to disrupt orderly classroom activities or to avoid fulfillment of the expectations of the course."
• "Academic freedom includes the right of students to be fairly and competently evaluated and graded. Punitive grading is not acceptable except in cases of cheating or plagiarism."
• "Students have the right to the instruction promised them in official university publications."
• "It is not inappropriate for faculty and students, both in and out of classes, to meet and share their views on a wide spectrum of intellectual and social issues. It is proper for students to seek, and faculty to choose, professionally responsible ways to relate subject matter of courses to those social crises that arise temporarily and unpredictably."
• "Students in all academic disciplines have a right to receive effective presentations of a broad spectrum of philosophies relative to those disciplines. This does not mean that each faculty member must give equal weight to all theories appropriate to his/her discipline, even though objectivity is ordinarily assumed to characterize scholarly pursuits; rather a spectrum of philosophies or theories should characterize the total offerings within a field."

San Jose State University

http://www.sjsu.edu/senate/s99-8.htm
II. Statement of Professional Responsibility

• "Faculty members and students are permitted and encouraged to investigate any theory, challenge any premise, engage in political and social debate, and express dissent."

Scripps College

http://www.scrippscollege.edu/ebshist.htm
Mission Statement

• "The paramount obligation of a college is to develop in its students the ability to think clearly and independently, ..." --Ellen Browning Scripps

• "Scripps aspires to be a diverse community committed to the principles of free inquiry and free expression based on mutual respect."

Stanford University

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/provost/faculty/policies/handbook/ch4.html#statementonacademicfreedom
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/DoR/rph/2-3.html
Under Preamble:

• "Stanford Universitys central functions of teaching, learning, research, and scholarship depend upon an atmosphere in which freedom of inquiry, thought, expression, publication and peaceable assembly are given the fullest protection. Expression of the widest range of viewpoints should be encouraged, free from institutional orthodoxy and from internal or external coercion."