Policy No.

AA-2150.2

 

 

  

POLICY & PROCEDURES MEMORANDUM

 

 

TITLE:

 

ACADEMIC FREEDOM

 

 

  

EFFECTIVE DATE:

 

December 19, 2000*

(*Title Updates 2/25/05)

 

    

 

CANCELLATION:

none

 

 

OFFICE:

 

Academic Affairs (AA)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

POLICY STATEMENT

 

 

Delgado Community College is committed to the principles of academic freedom. These

principles acknowledge the right of a faculty member to explore without interference the academic

area associated with his or her teaching discipline and to provide in the classroom and in the College

such exposition of that area as is consistent with College policy and with prevailing standards of

academic integrity and discourse.

 

Among the responsibilities assumed by the faculty member enjoying the privileges of

academic freedom is the responsibility to indicate clearly when that faculty member is speaking or

writing as an official designee of the College and/or the Louisiana Community and Technical

College System (LCTCS) and when that faculty member is speaking or writing as a private citizen.

Additionally, consistent with the animating principles of academic freedom, the faculty member

must encourage and support the spirit of free and open inquiry in the classroom and in the College

and refrain from the dogmatic promotion of one particular point of view to the exclusion of all

reasonable alternatives.

 

When not officially designated to represent the College or the Louisiana Community and

Technical College System (LCTCS), the faculty member must indicate clearly that she/he is

speaking as an individual citizen. Implicit among numerous responsibilities that must be assumed

by those enjoying these privileges of academic freedom shall be that of refraining from insisting

upon the adoption by students or others of any particular point of view as authoritative in

controversial issues.

 

Furthermore, Delgado Community College hereby adopts the American Association of

University Professors' (AAUP) official Statements and Interpretations on Academic Freedom.

Specific information on the AAUP's statements can be accessed through the organization's official

website http://www.aaup.org.

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

SIGNATURE

 

J. Terence Kelly

Chancellor

 

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AA-2150.2 December 19, 2000*

*Title Updates 2/25/05

 

 

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Reference:

American Associate of University Professors Official Statements and Interpretations on

Academic Freedom

Louisiana Community and Technical College System Policy #I.1.038,

Rights, Duties

  

 

and Responsibilities of the Academic Staff

 

Review Process:

 

Academic Affairs Council 12/11/00

Executive Council 12/19/00

 

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