Academic Freedom Policy

Responsible Unit: Provost Office | Executive lead: Provost 
Created: 5/1/2010 | Reviewed/Revised: 1/5/2023 | Effective: 1/19/2023 
Compliance: COCA 12.8, NWCCU 2.B.1, 2.C.2, 2.F.1, CAPTE 3C 
Approving Body: PAC | Classification: Institution-wide 


Policy:  
The University will foster and maintain full freedom of discussion, inquiry, teaching and research, and standards of professional conduct and public morals. The faculty, the staff, the administration, and the students of the University are entitled to discuss relevant subjects freely in the classroom. In scholarship and publication, each faculty, staff, administrator, and student is entitled to investigate, pursue inquiry, and discuss freely those subjects, which they are competent to address; and to develop, maintain, and present opinion and reasoned conclusions relevant to the work. 

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