INDEX
Introduction
Table of Contents
Policies in Process
Preliminaries
Policies
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Legal Authority and Governance
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University-wide
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Presidential Area
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Academic Affairs
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Business Affairs
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Student Life
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University Advancement
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Administrative Services
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Academic Freedom
Policy Statement
The following excerpt from the 1940 Statement of Principles on
Academic Freedom and Tenure of the American Association of University
Professors is endorsed:
Teachers are entitled to full freedom in research and in
the publication of results, subject to the adequate performance of
their other academic duties; but research for pecuniary return
should be based upon an understanding with the authorities of the
institution.
Teachers are entitled to freedom in the classroom in discussing
their subject, but they should be careful not to introduce into
their teaching material matter which has no relation to their
subject.
College and university teachers are citizens, members of a learned
profession, and officers of an educational institution. When they
speak or write as citizens, they should be free from institutional
censorship or discipline, but their special position in the
community imposes special obligations. As scholars and educational
officers, they should remember that the public may judge their
profession and their institution by their utterances. Hence they
should at all times be accurate, should exercise appropriate
restraint, should show respect for the opinions of others, and
should make every effort to indicate that they are not speaking
for the institution.
Two considerations in interpreting this statement are the Mission and
Goals of the University and the requirement of receiving prior
approval from the University's Institutional
Review Board for the Protection of Human Participants.
Related Policies and Committees
Mission - Mission
Statement of Marywood University
Goals - Goals
and Objectives of Marywood University
Policy - Professional
Ethics
Committee - Institutional
Review Board for the Protection of Human Participants
History of the Policy
12/01/79 - Reaffirmed with publication of Faculty Manual
07/01/93 - Introduction and postscript added
07/01/03 - "Human Subejcts" changed to "Human Participants"
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