LOUISIANA COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM

Policy # 1.038

 

 

Title: Rights, Duties and Responsibilities of the Academic Staff

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Authority

: Board Action

Original Adoption

: September 10, 2003

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

Effective Date

: September 10, 2003

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

Last Revision

: Initial

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A. Academic Freedom. The Louisiana Community and Technical College System is

committed to the principle of academic freedom. The principle acknowledges the right of

a teacher to explore fully within the field of his/her subject as he/she believes to represent

the truth. The principle also includes the right of a member of the academic staff of the

System to exercise in speaking, writing, and action outside the System the ordinary rights

of the American citizen, but it does not decrease the responsibility and accountability

which the member of the academic staff bears to the system, the state, and the nation.

 

Among the many implicit responsibilities which must be assumed by those enjoying the

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.

 

B. Duties of Academic Staff. Each member of the academic staff is expected to be devoted

to the accomplishment of the purposes for which the System exists: instruction,

workforce and economic development, and public service. Those members of the

academic staff who comprise the faculty of the System are charged to determine the

educational policy of the System through deliberative action in their respective units and

divisions.

 

C. Responsibilities of Academic Staff. It is a basic principle that every member of the

academic staff, of whatever rank, shall be held responsible for competent and effective

performance of his/her duties.