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The University Mission and Educational Philosophy. The Mission The AAUP-FA and the Administration incorporate in full the Mission Statement of the University into this Agreement. A copy of the Mission Statement is attached as Appendix D. Every faculty member is responsible to be aware of the University’s Mission Statement and to adhere to it while he/she is a faculty member. Educational Philosophy The parties incorporate herein by reference the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure of the American Association of University Professors in accordance with the endorsement of the Board of Trustees of the University on January 15, 1968. In furtherance of the foregoing, the parties incorporate the following text from the 1966 Statement: The right of...a faculty member...to speak on general educational questions or about the administration and operations of his own institution is part of his right as a citizen and should not be abridged by the institution.1 There exist, of course, legal bounds relating to defamation of character, and there are questions of propriety. The parties hereby incorporate into this Agreement Part V of the 1966 Statement insofar as it is applicable to the University and to the extent set forth below. The faculty has primary responsibility for such fundamental areas as curriculum, subject matter, and methods of instruction, research and scholarship, faculty status, and those aspects of student life which relate to the educational process. Faculty status includes appointments, reappointments, decisions not to reappoint, promotions, the granting of tenure and dismissal. The primary responsibility of the faculty for such matters is based upon the fact that its judgment is central to general educational policy. Further­more, scholars in a particular field or activity have the chief competence for judging the work of their colleagues; in such competence it is implicit that responsibility exists for both adverse and favorable judgments. Likewise there is the more general competence of experienced faculty personnel committees having a broader charge. Determinations in these matters should first be by faculty action through established procedures, reviewed by the chief academic officers with the concurrence of the Board of Trustees. On these matters the power of review or final decision is lodged in the governing board or delegated by it to the President. The decision shall ordinarily concur with faculty determinations expressed through the appropriate University bodies or age...

The University Mission and Educational Philosophy