News Flash from NoIndoctrination.org

Academic Freedom & The University of California

Although we were told that the review of APM-010 would probably take one year, in June the Academic Council voted (10-7) in favor of submitting this issue for consideration at a special July 30 Academic Senate meeting.

Reviews of important UC documents can take years. UC President Atkinson, who will be retiring in October 2003, has asked for a new academic freedom statement, and he wants it within a few months. Why rush such an important document?

For background information and ways to help, we encourage you to go to the following links:

• View NoIndoctrination.org's original message about the proposed changes to UC's policy on academic freedom here.
  
• Read a discourse about this issue between NoIndoctrination.org and Academic Senate Chair Gayle Binion here.
  
• Check out what UC campus newspapers have to say about the issue here.
  
• See what other news sources have written about this issue here.
  
• Read our May 27th letter to the members of the UC Academic Senate regarding the APM-010 revision here.
  
• Read what UC Berkeley Professor Martin Trow has to say about the proposed APM-010 revision in his July 24th letter here.
  
• View the official UC documents regarding the APM-010 revision:
  • The current APM-010:
    http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/acadpers/apm/apm-010.pdf
    
  • The original APM-010 revision draft & UC President Atkinson's letter justifying a new academic freedom statement:
    http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate/assembly/may2003/may2003viia6.pdf
    
  • The latest AMP-010 revision draft:
    http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate/assembly/jul2003/apm010rev061803.pdf