Chair Talk 3.14-What Is and Is Not Academic Freedom

Chair Talk 3.14 - What Is and Is Not Academic Freedom

Faculty Colleagues:

In a different era (1940) the AAUP issued a Statement of Principles asserting the right of faculty members to speak or write as citizens, free from institutional censorship or discipline. At the same time it called attention to the special obligations of faculty members arising from their position in the community: to be accurate, to exercise appropriate restraint, to show respect for the opinions of others, and to make every effort to indicate that they are not speaking for the institution. 

Attached is a more recent document from the AAUP addressing a wide range of issues that might be helpful at this time.  

Lynn Nadel

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Chair of the Faculty
Regents Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science
University of Arizona
nadel@u.arizona.edu