Section 8-B1401. ACADEMIC FREEDOM

 

1401.1Because the University is a marketplace of ideas, its mission and purpose can be fulfilled only where there is the freedom to transmit, to evaluate, and to extend knowledge without strict conformity with any orthodoxy of content and method. Therefore, the University shall abide by principles of academic freedom for faculty in teaching and research which are fundamental to the protection of the rights of the teacher in transmitting ideas, and to the student in learning, as well as to the advancement of truth.

 

1401.2In order to allow the faculty to gain the maturity and understanding without which the University would become inadequate to its purpose, the University endorses the American Association of University Professors' 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom.

 

1401.3The rights attendant to academic freedom shall include, but are not limited to the following:

 

(a)Free inquiry;

 

(b)Free expression;

 

(c)Freedom to develop in an area of competence, and to express one's views in relation to that area of competence;

 

(d)Freedom to speak and to write as a citizen without institutional censorship or discipline;

 

(e)Freedom to seek change of University policies by appropriate means and through appropriate channels provided within the University; and

 

(f)Freedom from constraints imposed by arbitrary and capricious behavior on the part of the administrators and others in the exercise of their duties.

 

 

authority

The District of Columbia Public Postsecondary Education Reorganization Act Amendments, effective November 1, 1975 (D.C. Law 1-36; (22 DCR 1759 (October 6, 1975)).

source

Section 201 of the University of the District of Columbia Faculty and Administrative Personnel Policies, 1980, as published in Final Rulemaking published at 27 DCR 1657 (April 25, 1980), from the Proposed Rulemakings published at 25 DCR 3934 (October 27, 1978) and 27 DCR 267 (January 18, 1980).