PPM 9-1，学术自由/一般原则
	主管部门：教务处

1.0 目的

这项政策确定了有关学术自由的一般原则。

2.0 一般的声明

韦伯州立大学寻求提供和维持一个有利于分享、扩展和批判性地审视知识和价值观的环境，并进一步寻求智慧。 这些核心功能的有效发挥要求教师能够按照适当的学术探究标准自由地追求和教授真理。

The faculty's rights, privileges and protections, including that of tenure and academic freedom, rest on the mutually supportive relationship between the faculty's special professional competence, its academic freedom and the central functions of the University. 这些关系不仅涉及教师的权利，而且也是教师专业责任的来源。 大学的政策和程序试图提供一种机制，以保护学术自由； 可以维持最高的教学、研究和学术水平； 大学作为高等教育机构的使命可能会得到推进。

学术自由和学术责任本身就是可取的。 They also serve a public need as demonstrated in the following excerpt which is based on information in the 社会科学百科全书 (1968):

"The justification of academic freedom must be sought in the peculiar character and function of the university and university scholar. The scholar's function is to lead in the discovery and promulgation of knowledge, and the multiplication of colleges and universities in modern times and expansion of their activities testify to the importance attached to this function. But the faculty's performance of this function is hampered or frustrated and their usefulness diminished if their inquiries are restricted in their range by religious, political or economic pressures; 如果他们不被允许与他人自由交流他们的研究结果； 或者他们必须通过服从科学或学术领域之外的强大偏见或特殊利益来修饰或限制自己诚实的观点。

因此，如果一个社会认为它的稳定、繁荣和进步依赖于知识的进步，并为此目的建立学院和大学，如果它否认这些机构为履行其性质和功能而必须拥有的自由，那么它显然是不一致的。

Academic freedom exists then not to serve the interests of the faculty but for the benefit of the society in which they function, ultimately the community at large."

在韦伯州立大学，应维护通过所有媒体追求和传播知识的学术自由。 这种自由应被认为是所有教职员工的权利，无论是终身教职还是非终身教职，所有行政官员和所有学生的权利。 The University endorses that portion of the 1940 AAUP "Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure," which is as follows: "The faculty are entitled to full freedom in research and in the publication of the results, subject to the adequate performance of their other academic duties, but research for pecuniary return should be based upon an understanding with authorities of the institution."

教师有权自由讨论他们的学科，但他们应该小心，不要在教学中引入与他们的学科无关的有争议的问题。

学院或大学的教员是公民，是他们所学专业的成员和教育机构的官员。 当他们以公民身份说话或写作时，当他们在就业范围之外行动时，他们应该不受制度审查或纪律约束，但他们在社会中的特殊地位赋予了他们特殊的义务。

作为学者和教育官员，教师们应该记住，公众可能会通过他们的言论来评判他们的职业和他们的机构。 因此，教师在任何时候都应保持准确，应保持适当的克制，应尊重他人的意见，并应尽一切努力表明他们不是机构的发言人。

修订历史

创建日期：3-74

修改:12-23-98