ACADEMIC FREEDOM, EVALUATION, PROBATION, AND TENURE Sample Clauses

ACADEMIC FREEDOM, EVALUATION, PROBATION, AND TENURE. A. Academic Freedom The purpose of this statement is to promote public understanding and support of academic freedom and tenure as well as agreement upon procedures to assure them. Institutions of higher education are conducted for the common good and not to further the interests of either the individual faculty member or the institution itself. The common good depends upon the free search for truth and its free expression. Academic freedom is essential to these purposes and applies to both teaching and research. Freedom in research is fundamental to the advancement of truth. Academic freedom is also vital to the protection of the rights of the faculty member in teaching and students in learning. It carries with it duties correlative with rights. Tenure is a means to ensure freedom of teaching, research, extramural activities, and a sufficient degree of economic security. Thus, tenure keeps the profession attractive to quality faculty. Tenure is indispensable to the success of our College in fulfilling its obligations to its students and community.
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