Academic Freedom and Faculty Rights Sample Clauses

Academic Freedom and Faculty Rights. A. A Statement of Academic Freedom and Faculty Rights This institution is based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. Here, we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate error so long as reason is left free to combat it. To achieve this end, academic freedom is viewed as the freedom of speech guaranteed to all citizens by the First Amendment. Free inquiry and free discourse shall not be abridged, whether directly or indirectly, by statute or community pressure. We reaffirm our support of academic freedom because of a sense of obligation to the community which needs our services and because of our professional responsibility for free inquiry. Academic freedom implies not only the unconditional freedom of discussion in the classroom, but also the absence of restriction upon the faculty's teaching method. Every faculty is presumed competent and responsible until specific evidence is brought forward to the contrary. No suspicion concerning either the judgment or the goodwill of the faculty should find any place in our administrative regulations or customary procedures. B. Academic Freedoms and Faculty Rights 1. Classroom Freedom: No restraints other than those required by the nature of the curriculum shall be placed on academic employees regarding the content of their teaching or conduct of their classes. 2. Library Collection: There shall be no censorship of library collections. 3. Constitutional Freedom: Academic employees' rights as citizens shall not be diminished or alienated as a condition of employment or retention.
AutoNDA by SimpleDocs
Academic Freedom and Faculty Rights. Each faculty member shall engage in those activities which shall at no time be detrimental to the College. A faculty member shall be free to present instructional materials which are pertinent to the subject and level taught and shall be expected to present all facets of controversial issues in an unbiased manner. Academic freedom is defined in the following Statement of Principles established by the American Association of University Professors, which is set forth herein, amended to have greater applicability to Xxxxxx College, as an expression of which the parties find agreement as a statement of general objectives and guidelines. 1. The faculty member is entitled to full freedom in research and in the publication of results, subject to the adequate performance of his/her duties, but research for pecuniary return shall be based upon an understanding with the authorities of the institution. This guideline shall not be construed as limiting the application of Board policy and procedures affecting College-supported inventions and materials, provided such policy shall not be altered as to deprive any faculty member of benefits previously assured by such policy with respect to work begun under the same and for which proper notice has been given by the faculty member. 2. The faculty member is entitled to freedom in the classroom in discussing his/her subject, but he/she shall be careful not to introduce into his/her teaching controversial matters which have no relation to his/her subject. Limitations of academic freedom because of aims of the institution should be clearly stated in writing at the time of the appointment. 3. The College faculty member is a citizen, a member of a learned profession, and an officer of an educational institution. When he/she speaks or writes as a citizen, he/she should be free from institutional censorship or discipline, but his/her special position in the community imposes special obligations. As a person of learning and an educational officer, he/she shall remember that the public may judge his/her profession and his/her institution by his/her utterances. Hence, he/she shall attempt at all times to be accurate, to exercise appropriate restraint, to show respect for the opinions of others, and to indicate that he/she is not an institutional spokesman. The Board and the Administration recognize that due to their educational accomplishments and professional experiences, full time faculty members are experts in their chosen fields o...
Academic Freedom and Faculty Rights. The College agrees that employees are entitled to the same full freedom in research and in publication of the results as tenured and tenure-track faculty members employed by the College. Research, consultation, or additional employment for pecuniary return shall be based upon prior agreement with the Xxxx of the Faculty/Vice President for Academic Affairs.
Academic Freedom and Faculty Rights. 6.1 Academic Freedom A. Academic Freedom is essential to the free search for truth and its free exposition and applies to both teaching and research. Academic Freedom in its teaching aspect is fundamental, not only to the advancement of truth but for the protection of the rights of the teacher in teaching and of the student to freedom in learning as well. It carries with it duties correlative with rights. B. Each Faculty Member is entitled to freedom in the classroom in discussing their subject, but should be careful not to introduce into their teaching controversial matter that has no relation to the subject. C. When a Faculty Member speaks or writes as a citizen, they should be free from institutional censorship or discipline, but their special position in the community imposes special obligations. A Faculty Member should remember that the public may judge the profession and the institution by their utterance. Hence, the Faculty Member 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 an institutional spokesperson. 6.2 In the classroom, a Faculty Member's pedagogy shall be guided by the course description and syllabus, requirements of effective teaching, adherence to academic and professional standards, and encouragement of the spirit of inquiry among students. 6.3 Faculty Members will follow the University's policy on plagiarism and the student code of conduct and other rules and regulations governing students' and Faculty Members' work expectations.
Academic Freedom and Faculty Rights 

Related to Academic Freedom and Faculty Rights

  • ACADEMIC FREEDOM Academic freedom shall be guaranteed to all employees, and no special limitation shall be placed upon study, investigation, presentation and interpretation of facts and ideas concerning man, human society, the physical and biological world, and other branches of learning subject to accepted standards of professional responsibility, community standards, and District-approved curriculum. These responsibilities include a commitment to democratic tradition, a concern for the welfare, growth and development of children, and an insistence upon objective scholarship. Employees who create work on their own time, own the right to that work.

  • Intellectual Property Rights and Confidentiality Clauses 3.1 Party A shall have exclusive and proprietary ownership, rights and interests in any and all intellectual properties arising out of or created during the performance of this Agreement, including but not limited to copyrights, patents, patent applications, software, technical secrets, trade secrets and others. Party B shall execute all appropriate documents, take all appropriate actions, submit all filings and/or applications, render all appropriate assistance and otherwise conduct whatever is necessary as deemed by Party A at its sole discretion for the purposes of vesting any ownership, right or interest of any such intellectual property rights in Party A, and/or perfecting the protections for any such intellectual property rights in Party A. 3.2 The Parties acknowledge that the existence and the terms of this Agreement and any oral or written information exchanged between the Parties in connection with the preparation and performance of this Agreement are regarded as confidential information. Each Party shall maintain confidentiality of all such confidential information, and without obtaining the written consent of the other Party, it shall not disclose any relevant confidential information to any third party, except for the information that: (a) is or will be in the public domain (other than through the receiving Party’s unauthorized disclosure); (b) is under the obligation to be disclosed pursuant to the applicable laws or regulations, rules of any stock exchange, or orders of the court or other government authorities; or (c) is required to be disclosed by any Party to its shareholders, directors, employees, legal counsels or financial advisors regarding the transaction contemplated hereunder, provided that such shareholders, directors, employees, legal counsels or financial advisors shall be bound by the confidentiality obligations similar to those set forth in this Section. Disclosure of any confidential information by the shareholders, director, employees of or agencies engaged by any Party shall be deemed disclosure of such confidential information by such Party and such Party shall be held liable for breach of this Agreement.

  • Third Party Technology The Company makes use of third party technology to collect information required for traffic measurement, research, and analytics. Use of third party technology entails data collection. We therefore would like to inform clients the Company enables third parties to place or read cookies located on the browsers of users entering the Company’s domain. Said third parties may also use web beacons to collect information through advertising located on the Company’s web site. Please note that you may change your browser settings to refuse or disable Local Shared Objects and similar technologies; however, by doing so you may be disabling some of the functionality of Company’s services.

  • Intellectual Property and Confidentiality 9.1 All intellectual property rights in and relating to the goods we supply to you, their manufacture, development and creation (including improvements to them) will be or remain ours and you will, at our request, do any act and execute any documents necessary to confirm such rights. 9.2 The price of our goods, our intellectual property rights, any information deemed confidential by us, and the commercial terms of the Contract are commercially sensitive and confidential and you must keep them secret for a period of five years from the end of the Contract. You may disclose this information where required to by law, court order, regulation or act of any governmental authority provided (to the extent permissible by law) you notify us in advance and agree the scope of disclosure with it. 9.3 You shall indemnify and hold us harmless from any claims based on infringement of any intellectual property rights caused by our compliance with your specifications.

  • CONFIDENTIALITY; PROPRIETARY RIGHTS 3.1 Each party (the “Receiving Party”) understands that the other party (the “Disclosing Party”) has disclosed or may disclose business, technical or financial information relating to the Disclosing Party’s business (hereinafter referred to as “Proprietary Information” of the Disclosing Party). Proprietary Information of Provider includes non-public information regarding features, functionality and performance of the Network. The Receiving Party agrees: (i) to take reasonable precautions to protect the Proprietary Information of the Disclosing Party; and (ii) not to use (except in performance of the Network or as otherwise permitted herein) or divulge to any third person the Proprietary Information of the Disclosing Party. The Disclosing Party agrees that the foregoing shall not apply with respect to any information after five (5) years following the disclosure thereof or any information that the Receiving Party can document: (a) is or becomes generally available to the public; (b) was in its possession or known by it prior to receipt from the Disclosing Party; (c) was rightfully disclosed to it without restriction by a third party; (d) was independently developed without use of any Proprietary Information of the Disclosing Party; or (e) is required to be disclosed by law. 3.2 Provider shall own and retain all right, title and interest in and to (a) the Network and Software, all improvements, enhancements or modifications thereto, (b) any software, applications, inventions or other technology developed in connection with the Network or support, and (c) all intellectual property rights related to any of the foregoing. 3.3 Subscriber hereby grants Provider a royalty-free, worldwide, transferable, sublicenseable, irrevocable, perpetual license to use or incorporate into the Network and/or Software any suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations, correction or other feedback provided by Subscriber, including Users, relating to the functionality and/or operation of the Network and/or Software. 3.4 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, Provider shall have the right to collect and analyze data and other information relating to the provision, use and performance of various aspects of the Network and related systems and technologies, and Provider shall also have the right (during and after the Term hereof) to (a) use such information and data to improve and enhance the Network and for other development, diagnostic and corrective purposes in connection with the Network and other Provider offerings, and (b) disclose such data, so long as it doesn’t otherwise disclose the Proprietary Information of Subscriber. 3.5 No rights or licenses are granted except as expressly set forth herein.

  • Intellectual Property Rights and Confidentiality 3.1 Party A shall have exclusive and proprietary rights and interests in all rights, ownership, interests and intellectual properties arising out of or created during the performance of this Agreement, including but not limited to copyrights, patents, patent applications, software, technical secrets, trade secrets and others. Party B shall execute all appropriate documents, take all appropriate actions, submit all filings and/or applications, render all appropriate assistance and otherwise conduct whatever is necessary as deemed by Party A in its sole discretion for the purposes of vesting any ownership, right or interest of any such intellectual property rights in Party A, and/or perfecting the protections for any such intellectual property rights in Party A. 3.2 The Parties acknowledge that the existence and the terms of this Agreement and any oral or written information exchanged between the Parties in connection with the preparation and performance this Agreement are regarded as confidential information. Each Party shall maintain confidentiality of all such confidential information, and without obtaining the written consent of the other Party, it shall not disclose any relevant confidential information to any third parties, except for the information that: (a) is in the public domain (other than through the receiving Party’s unauthorized disclosure); (b) is under the obligation to be disclosed pursuant to the applicable laws or regulations, rules of any stock exchange, or orders of the court or other government authorities; or (c) is required to be disclosed by any Party to its shareholders, investors, legal counsels or financial advisors regarding the transaction contemplated hereunder, provided that such shareholders, investors, legal counsels or financial advisors shall be bound by the confidentiality obligations similar to those set forth in this Section. Disclosure of any confidential information by the staff members or agencies hired by any Party shall be deemed disclosure of such confidential information by such Party, which Party shall be held liable for breach of this Agreement. This Section shall survive the termination of this Agreement for any reason. 3.3 The Parties agree that this Section shall survive changes to, and rescission or termination of, this Agreement.

  • Confidentiality Intellectual Property The Executive agrees that during the Executive’s employment with the Company, whether or not under this Agreement, and at all times thereafter: (a) The Executive will not at any time, directly or indirectly, disclose or divulge any Confidential Information (as hereinafter defined), except as required in connection with the performance of the Executive’s duties for the Company, and except to the extent required by law (but only after the Executive has provided the Company with reasonable notice and opportunity to take action against any legally required disclosure). As used herein, “Confidential Information” means all trade secrets and all other information of a business, financial, marketing, technical or other nature relating to the business of the Company including, without limitation, any customer or vendor lists, prospective customer names, financial statements and projections, know-how, pricing policies, operational methods, methods of doing business, technical processes, formulae, designs and design projects, inventions, computer hardware, software programs, business plans and projects pertaining to the Company and including any information of others that the Company has agreed to keep confidential; provided, however, that Confidential Information shall not include any information that has entered or enters the public domain through (i) no fault of the Executive, and (ii) no breach by any other current or former employee of his/her confidentiality obligations to the Company.

  • Third Party Intellectual Property Rights 10.7.1 Each Party shall give prompt written notice to the other of any intellectual property rights of any third party which could reasonably be considered as constituting impediment on the use of the Ipsen Licensed Technology, Joint Inventions or Joint Patent Rights in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement or on the research, development, manufacture, use, marketing, promotion, distribution, sale, import or export of Licensed Product, in which event the Parties shall agree on the strategy and procedural steps to be taken in respect of opposing and/or settling such potential impediment. 10.7.2 Each Party shall give prompt written notice to the other of claims or suits arising out of actual or alleged Infringement of Patent Rights, Know-How or other intellectual property owned by a third party, as a result of any use of the Ipsen Licensed Technology, Joint Inventions or Joint Patent Rights in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement or on the research, development, * CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED. OMITTED PORTIONS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION PURSUANT TO RULE 406 PROMULGATED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED. manufacture, use, marketing, promotion, distribution, sale, import or export of Licensed Product, in which event Licensee, subject to the provisions of Section 10.7.3, shall have the right to contest or defend such claim or suit on behalf of itself and on behalf of Ipsen. If Licensee elects to contest or defend such claim or suit, Licensee shall notify Ipsen of such election, and shall keep Ipsen fully informed of any development in such claim or suit, including by transmitting copies of all documents in such claim or suit. If Licensee contests or defends a claim or suit pursuant to this Section 10.7.2 and Ipsen has not elected to contest or defend such claim or suit subject to, and in accordance with, the provisions of Section 10.7.3, then (a) Licensee shall control the defense of such claim or suit, (b) Ipsen shall provide assistance in the defense of such claim or suit in a reasonable and timely manner upon reasonable request of Licensee and at Licensee’ sole cost and expense; and (c) Licensee shall have the right to compromise or settle such claim or suit; provided, however, that, if such claim or suit was originally made or filed against Ipsen or any of its Affiliates or pertains to any of the Ipsen Licensed Technology, Joint Patent Rights or Joint Know-How, any such compromise or settlement by Licensee of such claim or suit shall be subject to Xxxxx’x prior written approval, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. Notwithstanding Licensee’s control of the defense of any claim or proceeding pursuant to this Section 10.7.2, Ipsen shall have the right to participate in such defense using counsel of its own choice and at its own expense, provided that such claim or proceeding was originally made or filed against Ipsen or any of its Affiliates or pertains to any of the Ipsen Licensed Technology, Joint Patent Rights or Joint Inventions. 10.7.3 If, within [ ]* after Licensee receives written notice of any such claim or suit, Licensee elects not to contest or defend, or fails to notify Ipsen of its intent to contest to or defend, such claim or suit, then Ipsen shall have the right to contest or defend such claim or suit on behalf of itself and Licensee and shall keep Licensee fully informed of any development in such claim or suit, including by transmitting copies of all documents submitted in such claim or suit. Notwithstanding any of the foregoing provisions of this Section 10.7.3 to the contrary, Xxxxx’x right under this Section 10.7.3 to contest or defend such claim or suit shall apply only if either (i) such claim or suit was originally made or brought against Ipsen or any of its Affiliates or (ii) such claim or suit pertains to any of the Ipsen Licensed Technology, Joint Patent Rights or Joint Inventions. If Ipsen contests or defends a claim or suit pursuant to this Section 10.7.3, then (a) Ipsen shall control the defense of such claim or suit, (b) Licensee shall provide assistance in the defense of such claim or suit in a reasonable and timely manner upon reasonable request of Ipsen and at Xxxxx’x sole cost and expense and (c) Ipsen shall have the right to compromise or settle such claim or suit; provided, however, that such compromise or settlement shall be subject to Licensee’s prior written approval, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. Notwithstanding Xxxxx’x control of the defense of any such claim or proceeding, Licensee shall have the right to participate in such defense using counsel of its own choice and at its own expense. * CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED. OMITTED PORTIONS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION PURSUANT TO RULE 406 PROMULGATED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED. 10.7.4 The defending Party shall bear its own costs and expenses (including, without limitation, attorneys fees and court costs) in connection with the defense of any claim or suit pursuant to Section 10.7.2 or Section 10.7.3, and the defending Party shall also bear the costs and expenses of the other Party if and to the extent that such costs and expenses were incurred by such other Party in connection with reasonable assistance provided by such other Party in connection with such defense at the request of the defending Party. 10.7.5 In the event that, in connection with the defense of any claim or suit pursuant to this Section 10.7 or any settlement thereof, the defending Party shall receive damages, costs or other amounts, such damages, costs or other amounts shall be treated in the manner contemplated under Section 10.6 as if they had been received by the defending Party in connection with any action or proceeding initiated and pursued by the defending Party pursuant to Section 10.6 above. 10.7.6 The provisions of this Section 10.7 and the respective rights and obligations of the Parties under this Section 10.7 shall be without prejudice to any of the provisions of Article 15 or any of the respective rights and obligations of the Parties under Article 15.

  • Technical Information The Employer agrees to provide to the Union such information that is available relating to employees in the bargaining unit, as may be required by the Union for collective bargaining purposes.

  • Intellectual Property Rights Infringement HP will defend and/or settle any claims against Customer that allege that an HP-branded product or service as supplied under this Agreement infringes the intellectual property rights of a third party. HP will rely on Customer’s prompt notification of the claim and cooperation with our defense. HP may modify the product or service so as to be non-infringing and materially equivalent, or we may procure a license. If these options are not available, we will refund to Customer the amount paid for the affected product in the first year or the depreciated value thereafter or, for support services, the balance of any pre-paid amount or, for professional services, the amount paid. HP is not responsible for claims resulting from any unauthorized use of the products or services.

Draft better contracts in just 5 minutes Get the weekly Law Insider newsletter packed with expert videos, webinars, ebooks, and more!