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Academic Freedom
In institutions of higher education, like American Trinity University, the principle of
Academic Freedom is essential to the search for truth and its exposition. Freedom in
research is fundamental to the advanced knowledge. The right to Academic Freedom in
teaching is fundamental for the protection of the rights of the faculty and of the students
in the educational process. These concepts of Academic Freedom are promoted at
American Trinity University and are elaborated as follows:
• The teacher is entitled to full freedom in research and in publication of the results;
subject to the adequate performance of the teacher's other academic duties. The
faculty member may take on additional employment, including research for
pecuniary return, without the approval of the University's officer or President of the
University provided, it does not interfere with his/her duties at the University.
• Teachers are entitled to freedom in the classroom to discuss their subject, but should
exercise this freedom in a responsible manner.
• Faculty members may exercise their rights as citizens when speaking or writing and
should be free from institutional censorship or discipline, but the faculty member’'s
special position in the community imposes special obligations. As a member of the
teaching profession, and as a representative of an educational institution, the faculty
member should remember that the public may judge his/her profession and his/her
institution by his/her utterances. Hence, the faculty member should at all times be
accurate, exercise appropriate restraint, show respect for the opinion of others, and
make every effort to indicate that (s)he is not speaking for the University.
• Any faculty member who believes that his/her rights have been abridged or ignored
by an administrative officer or employees of American Trinity University and who
is unable to obtain redress which is satisfactory to the faculty member within
his/her own department, shall have the right to appeal to the President of the
University.
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