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Students' Academic Freedom Rights Will Be Undermined by UC Proposal
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University of California President Richard Atkinson and UC Berkeley Law School Professor Robert Post are proposing a new statement on Academic Freedom for the University of California - one that NoIndoctrination.org believes will undermine the academic freedom rights of students. President Atkinson claims that the current statement is "outdated": "I believe the University's stance on academic freedom should reflect the modern university and its faculty."(1) NoIndoctrination.org finds no justification for the proposed changes.

The following statements are part of the current UC document on Academic Freedom, but these will be eliminated if the Atkinson/Post proposal is adopted:

• "To convert, or to make converts, is alien and hostile to this dispassionate duty. Where it becomes necessary, in performing this function of a university, to consider political, social, or sectarian movements, they are dissected and examined - not taught, and the conclusion left, with no tipping of the scales, to the logic of the facts."


• "Essentially the freedom of a university is the freedom of competent persons in the classroom. In order to protect this freedom, the University assumes the right to prevent exploitation of its prestige by unqualified persons or by those who would use it as a platform for propaganda."


• "Its high function - and its high privilege, the University will steadily continue to fulfill, serving the people by providing facilities for investigation and teaching free from domination by parties, sects, or selfish interests."

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