Academic Freedom for Faculty & Staff

AAUP Resources on Academic Freedom

AAUP Redbook Policy Statements on Academic Freedom and Tenure

 

Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure. 1940.

Recommended Institutional Regulations on Academic Freedom and Tenure. 2006 revision.

Post-tenure Review. 1999 revision.

On Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes. 1994.

Procedural Standards in the Renewal or Nonrenewal of Faculty Appointments. 1989 revision.

 

List of Administrations Censured by the Association

Articles on Academic Freedom

Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Student Evaluation of Faculty: Galloping Polls In The 21st Century: http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v5n6.html

College Policies on Academic Freedom

Arizona State: http://www.asu.edu/aad/manuals/acd/acd201.html

Austin Community College (Texas): http://www2.austin.cc.tx.us/board/policies/D2.htm

Barnard College (New York): http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/provost/code/codeb1.htm

Bethel College (Colorado): http://web.uccs.edu/bethelstudenthandbook/Academic%20Freedom.htm

Boston University: http://www.bu.edu/faculty/handbook/policies/policies-freedom.htm

Carnegie Mellon: Free Speech and Assembly and Controversial Speakers: http://www.cmu.edu/policies/documents/FreeSpeech.html

Carnegie Mellon Policy Against Sexual Harassment: http://www.cmu.edu/policies/documents/SexHarass.html

Furman Universities: http://www.furman.edu/admin/instplan/pps/100/1315.htm

Georgia State University: http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwfhb/fhb.html

314.01 AcademicFreedom: All faculty members are entitled to enjoy and to exercise without penalty for such exercise all the rights of an American citizen as well as the rights of academic freedom as they are understood generally in the teaching profession.

Kansas State University: http://www.ksu.edu/academicservices/fhbook/fhxc.html

Miami-Dade Community College, Union agreement: http://www.ufmdcc.org/bargaining/newprop/art01.htm

Mississippi State University: http://www.msstate.edu/dept/audit/91109.html

Montcalm Community College (Michigan): http://www.montcalm.cc.mi.us/policy/section3/academic_and_civic_freedom.htm

North Carolina State University: http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/univ_eval/ch08/a8facult_p6.html

North Dakota State University: http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/policy/325.htm

Ohio University: http://www.cats.ohiou.edu/facsen/sec1.htm

Queens University (Canada): http://www.queensu.ca/qufa/Collective_Agreement/sec5.htm

Rush Medical College Academic Freedom Committee: http://www.rushu.rush.edu/medcol/acfree/frame2.htm

San Jose State University: http://www.sjsu.edu/senate/s99-8.htm

Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/DoR/rph/2-3.html

Stephen F. Austin State University: http://www.sfasu.edu/acadaffairs/TENURE.HTM

Sweet Briar College: http://www.dean.sbc.edu/FGMnew.html#AcademicFreedom

Texas A&M: http://sago.tamu.edu/policy/12-01.htm

Trinity College (Conn.): http://lor.cc.trincoll.edu/info/faculty_manual/appendix-a.1-a.7/a.5.html

TrinityUniversity: http://www.trinity.edu/departments/academic_affairs/hb/facgvpol/polstmt.htm#TOP

University of Arizona, Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure: http://w3fp.arizona.edu/caft/

University of Bath: http://internal.bath.ac.uk/academic-freedom/

University of California, electronic mail policy (1998): http://www.ucop.edu/ucophome/policies/email/email.html

University of Delaware: http://www.udel.edu/provost/fachb/III/III-B.html

University of Idaho: http://www.ets.uidaho.edu/fsh/3160.html

University of Manitoba: http://www.umanitoba.ca/admin/governance/bylaws/b23.shtml

University of Missouri: http://www.system.missouri.edu/uminfo/rules/content.htm

University of Montana: http://www.umt.edu/provost/cba/6000.htm

University of Nebraska: http://chem-gharbison.unl.edu/regents_on_af.html

University of New Mexico Policy: http://www.unm.edu/~facsen/newhb.html

University of North Carolina: http://www.ga.unc.edu/BOG/code/code-html/s601.html

University of North Texas: http://www.unt.edu/vpaa_fhb/II-b.html

University of Western Ontario (Canada): http://www.uwo.ca/uwofa/dr_cl_02/ac_fr_meeting020208.html

Utah State University: http://personnel.usu.edu/policies/403.htm

Vanderbilt: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/facman/statemnt.htm

Virginia Community Colleges: http://www.wcc.vccs.edu/pp/facultyRightsResp/misc/academicFreedom.html

Washington University Policy: http://www.wustl.edu/policies/tenure.html

Western Illinois University: http://www.wiu.edu/admin/regulations/3aacafre.shtml

Wesleyan University: http://www.wesleyan.edu/acaf/policy/sc_academic_freedom.htm

York University: http://www.yufa.org/docs/ca/art10.html