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1.22 ACADEMIC FREEDOM

Effective: November 22, 1995

PURPOSE

To state University support of academic freedom.

AUTHORITY/SOURCE

SACS Criteria Section 4.8.6.

POLICY

Academic freedom is crucial to the integrity of an educational institution.  The University insists on the protection of the academic freedom.  Faculty and students must be free to examine all pertinent data, to question assumptions, to be guided by the evidence of scholarly research, and to teach and publish the substance of this inquiry.

PROCEDURE

The principles of academic freedom assuring freedom in teaching, research and publication must be distributed to all faculty.  This statement should be included in the faculty handbook.

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