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Breining Institute's policy on Academic Freedom is based upon the 1940
Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom set forth by the
representatives of the American Association of University Professors
and Association of American Colleges.
ACADEMIC
FREEDOM POLICY
Breining Institute is dedicated to
the transmission and advancement of knowledge and understanding.
Academic freedom is essential to the achievement of these purposes.
Breining Institute, therefore, supports and encourages freedom of
inquiry for faculty members and students to the end that they may
responsibly pursue these goals through teaching, learning, research,
discussion, and publication, free from internal or external restraints
that would unreasonably restrict their academic endeavors. In
furtherance of these general principles:
- Instructors are entitled to full
freedom in research and in the publication of the results, subject
to the adequate performance of their other academic duties.
- Instructors are entitled to freedom
in the classroom in discussing their subject, but they should be
careful not to introduce into their teaching controversial matter
which has no relation to their subject.
- Instructors are citizens, members
of a learned profession, and officers of an educational
institution. When they speak or write as citizens, they should be
free from institutional censorship or discipline, but their
special position in the community imposes special obligations. As
scholars and educational officers, they should remember that the
public may judge their profession and their institution by their
utterances. Hence they 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 speaking for the institution.
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